Last night I get home, eat dinner, go upstairs and turn on the TV and there is a Directv error code 775 bad connection between satellite dish and receiver. I check the coax cable connections, the HDMI connections and pulling the power cable to reset and nothing works. I have several movies recorded so I turn them on and head to bed after 9pm.
At 5:30am this morning I walk in the family room and the wife is checking the connections at the TV (in other words, fucking shit up).
Me: "What's up with Directv?"
Wife: "You need to go outside and check the satellite dish and connections, that's what the error code says".
Me: "I'm not checking in the dark, I'll have a look at lunch time."
At lunch time I grab a ladder and the satellite is bolted down super tight and all the connections are secure but it dawned on me the wife was painting walls in the kitchen earlier in the week and had unscrewed some outlets. So I go inside and check the combo outlet with a coax cable and phone cable and sure enough, the coax cable is loose at the connection.
Me: "Nothing wrong outside".
Wife: "Directv is coming out at 8am in the morning. They had promo's so I signed up for free this and free that, all for $8.95 a month".
Me: "The coax cable is loose on the kitchen outlet."
Wife: "THAT CABLE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TV. IT'S FOR THE INTERNET AND PHONE CONNECTIONS". (Like she's some kind of expert electrician).
I walk into our bedroom and the TV fires up normal...
Me: "TV in the bedroom works fine now".
Wife turns on the family room TV and it fires up...