I know it's not a beer question or topic, but thought I'd throw it out there.
I have a room in my home with a nice TV, wet bar, and pool table. It's fairly big, and when watching TV (football) with friends over, if we get to playing pool, you can't see the TV, so I had another TV setup on the opposite corner wall. Worked great. Then got a lightning surge and knocked out the receiver. Tech installed a newer receiver that didn't have the same outputs as the old one. He did enable the mirroring and provided the special cable needed, but I had get some barrel connectors to hook it up.
Couple months later, I get a smart TV that can supposedly do all sorts of cool things (and it can), one of which is to operate directv without needing to pay for a monthly subscription for a box. It seems that I need their new "genie" box to do this though I was told. So tech comes and installs the genie box. I thought it best to put it in the pool table room since that didn't have a DVR connected to it. The tech wouldn't setup the mirroring feature.
I don't get it. Why? I just want to watch the same program on both TVs for when I am entertaining watching a little football. direcTV says that I must have a receiver on every TV. I don't want a receiver on that other TV. It is unnecessary.
Anybody work for directv know the way to fix this? Otherwise I'm putting the mirrored non-DVR back there, and moving the genie to another spot. Purely stupid. Perhaps directv thinks they can make more money by forcing more monthly rental fees.
Another thought regarding football is the blocked out games. I live well beyond the supposed black out radius, but still games are blacked out. Why is it you go to a sports bar, and they can get ALL the games with NO black out? Why? Do you think it would work to take the card or even an actual receiver such as the small HR-25 unit, and trade it with an out of state family member so as to be able to watch live football games that aren't blacked out, assuming that they get the football package?? Might be worth a shot.
TD
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I have a room in my home with a nice TV, wet bar, and pool table. It's fairly big, and when watching TV (football) with friends over, if we get to playing pool, you can't see the TV, so I had another TV setup on the opposite corner wall. Worked great. Then got a lightning surge and knocked out the receiver. Tech installed a newer receiver that didn't have the same outputs as the old one. He did enable the mirroring and provided the special cable needed, but I had get some barrel connectors to hook it up.
Couple months later, I get a smart TV that can supposedly do all sorts of cool things (and it can), one of which is to operate directv without needing to pay for a monthly subscription for a box. It seems that I need their new "genie" box to do this though I was told. So tech comes and installs the genie box. I thought it best to put it in the pool table room since that didn't have a DVR connected to it. The tech wouldn't setup the mirroring feature.
I don't get it. Why? I just want to watch the same program on both TVs for when I am entertaining watching a little football. direcTV says that I must have a receiver on every TV. I don't want a receiver on that other TV. It is unnecessary.
Anybody work for directv know the way to fix this? Otherwise I'm putting the mirrored non-DVR back there, and moving the genie to another spot. Purely stupid. Perhaps directv thinks they can make more money by forcing more monthly rental fees.
Another thought regarding football is the blocked out games. I live well beyond the supposed black out radius, but still games are blacked out. Why is it you go to a sports bar, and they can get ALL the games with NO black out? Why? Do you think it would work to take the card or even an actual receiver such as the small HR-25 unit, and trade it with an out of state family member so as to be able to watch live football games that aren't blacked out, assuming that they get the football package?? Might be worth a shot.
TD
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