"If anyone out there decides to do the same with their DirecTV receivers, be prepared to be VERY annoyed afterward. Even temporarily connecting it, then resetting the network so it is no longer connected, changes a bunch of things with the receiver, and it will not only constantly hound you with messages practically begging you to reconnect, but it also changes the search feature, in that it will try to search online for anything, even though you are no longer connected. " thank you for this, @GabeU -- I've always been reluctant to connect the receivers because I thought this would happen. Glad to know I was right; I know now I'll never connect them. I'll keep doing what I do now, which is connect a laptop to the TV via an HDMI cable. That works just fine.
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