LCC

soon

 

That’s the story of everything with AT&T DirecTV: “soon”

 

I have a couple AM22’s I’ll be putting on eBay soon, which work on your 24. Two of them are brand new in box. If it was me, I wouldn’t swap a 24 for a mini for many reasons, which have been discussed already on this site....

 

What is LCC?

 

Some good news I hope for all the OTA fans from DirecTV

 

Local Channel Connector $10 /month Credit

 

Some good news I hope for all the OTA fans from DirecTV

 

OTA Channel Guide Issues

 

DIRECTV Local Channel Connector

 

Not gonna happen. There's too many areas where OTA reception isn't possible without a giant deep fringe outdoor antenna, and in some cases because of terrain, a tower, and in extreme cases not available at all. Especially in one of the two pilot markets, Salt Lake City, the DMA is the entire state, even though the main stations originate in the northwest corner of the state, so only portions of the rest of the state are served by scattered low power translators.

As for the original question, check the numerous existing LCC threads P Smith posted, you'll find all the available information about the LCC there, if there's actually anything new it will probably be posted in one of those existing threads. And no, calling a tech will NOT get you one unless you live in one of the two pilot markets Salt Lake City and Las Vegas, their system will not let them place an order for it outside of those two markets. Attempting to convince a tech or CSR otherwise has resulted in a bunch of confusion/misinformation and them ordering wrong items like an order for an AM21 that is quickly cancelled, a power cord (which is needed to power the AM21 if you want to "connect" it to a HR44 or HR54), or as someone in another thread recently found out the hard way, a RF modulator (which is used to "connect" HD receivers to older TVs that only have an "antenna" input).

Also attempting to do "self research" with CSRs/techs is pointless since they'll start making stuff up just to get you to end the call so they can move on to a caller with an issue they can resolve instead of dealing with someone attempting to get a pre-release product outside of the pilot markets. (i.e. that same person who got the RF modulator was told that all of Salt Lake City's locals were dropped from satellite a few months ago)

 

With the new LCC are you limited with how many OTA channels that can be recorded at the same time?

 

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Thanks - if or when I am offered this option I will decline. At times I am recording 3 or 4 OTA shows at the same time.