An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Barely two weeks after ATT launched DirecTV Now, the online streaming service's customers have already been. There was an outage of about three hours last night and a two-hour outage Friday night, TVPredictions. 'DirecTV Now's customers said they couldn't log onto the streaming service, or they were suddenly met with a blank screen if already watching,' the report said. The 'Error Message 30' tells customers that they may be suffering from 'an intermittent or weak Internet connection,' but in this case the problem was on DirecTV's end. 'Tuesday evening we experienced an issue that prevented some customers from streaming on DirecTV Now,' ATT told Ars today. 'The issue has since been resolved and we're seeing normal streaming levels at this time.

Jan 29, 2013 - I like being able to use TiVo To Go to transfer shows from my DVR to my pc. It's pretty easy to use. Note that some of DirecTV's receivers can handle both 3TB and 4TB drives at the moment. All of this talk has gone over my head, will my Scientific Atlanta HD box allow me to record to DVR or not? How to Recover Accidentally Deleted Programs from a DirecTV DVR. How do I Record From a DVR to a VHS Tape? How to Transfer Movies From My DirecTV DVR to My Laptop.

We thank our customers for their patience.' Even when DirecTV Now works, availability of live sports games hasn't lived up to.

There appear to be technical problems affecting local games, but licensing restrictions may be limiting availability as well. This past Sunday, some DirecTV Now subscribers in cities such as San Francisco, Tampa Bay, and Atlanta could not watch NFL games on local Fox channels due to a technical problem, TVPredictions reported in. So you are saying there are these magic rays that go through the air that your magic 'antenna' can catch and turn into a NFL game? If this Science Fictional technology of sending TV through the air, instead of through a cable, as God intended, is ever invented, it would be disruptive!

Think of the damage that it would do to the children of cable industry workers. Drivers Tacho Symbols. This would cause more unemployment than Artificial Intelligence Automation and Guy Fawkes mask toting Anonymous Cars! Note that these would be American jobs that would be lost: no cable country in the USA would send a technician from India to the US to fix your cable problem in Camden, NJ. Although, given the time it takes for the cable company to send a technician to fix your problem at home... It might seem like the technician is swimming from India to the US.

Okay, you know how your TV has (most likely) four holes on the back into which screws can go, in, again, most likely, a rectangular pattern? It should also have a sort of fat screw sticking out of the back, about a centimeter (or about 3/8 of an inch if you prefer,) and slightly longer than it is wide, with a hole in the center, running probably at right-angles to the screen, (unless it's on the side or bottom, as they occasionally are).

That screw is called a cable-jack or antenna or 'aerial' jack or connector, depending upon where you are in the world. Unless your 'TV' is actually merely a monitor and not truly a TELEVISION SET, it should have built-into it a device called an RF-demodulator, which performs several important functions, and on modern TVs is the largest component soldered onto the board, typically being a silvery box several centemeters in any direction, usually enclosed by what will look like, if you can see it, a load of tiny finger-like projections all around the outside, (to reduce or eliminate RF interference). You don't need to open the TV to see if you have one of these, usually if you have the jack, you have the module, and if you have the functionality you have the module. More on this later. Short answer, most modern TV's have a 'F' connector on the back. Most modern antenna have a matching connector which may or may-not have threads.

If it does not have threads just press it on the F connector. If it has threads, screw it on to the F connector. If your antenna is so old that it doesn't have a matching connector (e.g., 300-ohm twin-lead cable), you will probably need to buy a device called a [wikipedia.org] to convert between the two (if the TV doesn't also have 2 screws to connect the twin-l.

Blackouts can occur in the city of a home game if not enough tickets were sold. Often the broadcasting rights are only granted if some minimum amount of seats have been sold. That is to keep the broadcasting of the games from hurting ticket sales.

Depending on how many more tickets must be sold in order to allow the game to be broadcast, the network doing the broadcasting will sometimes buy tickets to make up the difference - as long as they still will see a net profit at the end of the bargain. This mainly affects regions with teams that are doing poorly (I remember blackouts occurring when I was a kid for Cleveland Browns games - not much has changed since then huh?).