I have a friend that is splitting his subscription 3 ways.
Direct TV is furnishing him the full package. It runs around 110$ a month last time we talked about it. Plus he pays $5x3 for the extra boxes.
He has 2 of the boxes in his house and one at his parents house and one at his wife's parents house. 3 families split 125 and get everything.
What, the three mobile homes are on the same lot?
lee
Terry wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Clever! But,I wonder if he could be prosecuted for cable signal fraud? That usage may be contrary to the subscription agreement. (with possible BIG fines) Wouldn't DirectTV notice that 2 of their boxes are on different phone lines?
Heck,they might even monitor UseNet newsgroups for this sort of info.
DirecTV DOES allow you to split the subscription if you have a home and a vacation home. But I think what is described by the OP is probably fraudulent.
--Steve
There is no requirement for DirecTV to be on a phone line for normal operations. None of ours have been since they were activated. As far as that goes, what's to stop someone from bringing all the receivers to the subscriber's house to get activated, then carrying them back to their ultimate home? DirecTV can't tell where the signal goes, since it goes everywhere anyway.
Would this be fraudulent? Hell, yes. The chances of getting caught are nil but if you do I'd imagine it'd be your ass.
What exactly is your point?
"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote in news:s_WdnRwmbr7ZEo3anZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:
Yes,I knew that,but if you want any PPV channels,you do.
maybe they'll put GPS chips inside the boxes..... ;-(
BTW,wouldn't the other two homes also have to buy their own dishes and LNBs? IIRC,one LNB can drive up to 4 converter boxes.
My friend said that all 3 homes subscribed to Direct TV for a year. This gave them all the hardware and installation free.
After the year, one of them had Direct TV install 3 more boxes in the single home and added all the channels. This gave one subscriber 4 boxes with every channel.
The other two dropped their service and used 2 of the 4 boxes.
This is old news to satellite providers. Satellite TV companies do unannounced phone audits of customers with multiple boxes; if you don't respond to the audit they shut down your service; if you can't provide data on all of your boxes they can (will!) stop service to the suspect units -- and you'll never get them back onto the same base plan again.
Sounds like a good way to start up intra-family squabbles.
DTV can do an instant binary edit/write to the card, but not without a phone line connected. IIRC.
Up to the death of HU cards and the early P5 card a Satellite had no beariing on an "audit".
-- Oren
"The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!"
No you don't. Use the website.
There is no such limit. I've seen multiswitches that handle 16 receivers. These can be cascaded for even more.
They can download anything they want into your DTV rx via the sat link. I haven't had mine hooked up to a phone in years. The DTV version of Tivo gets all updates from the sat. Back when a friend was pirating DTV his cards to the hit without a landline hooked up.
I've had 2 receivers for at least 4 years. They were never connected to a phoneline during that time, and have had no problems.
I've had DTV for 10 years and never hooked up to phone line after the first year. Nearby lighting strikes roasted the modem in the receiver so I never bothered to connect the phone line after that. Never been phone audited and order ppv through their web sight. What is the phone audit all about anyway, are you saying you get a call from DTV wanting s/n's from your receivers?
This is how we get around the NFL "blackout" rule.
Our Direct TV is registered at our camp well outside the 100 mile radius(there are dishes at both home & the cabin).
Works like a charm.
Rob
providers call and ask for unique numbers from each box they change by satellite, if you cant walk around your home and give them numbers from each box you get shut down.
doing thisa is the same as going in a store and stealing merchandise
Definitely not!
No it is not. If you steal something from a store then the store no longer has it.
It is NOT the same thing.
Bullshit. In 15 years with DirecTV they have never called for any reason. On the few occasions I've needed to call them we discussed the offending receiver and none of the others were even mentioned.
Right. Is it even something wrong?
I think that idea of it being "stealing" is corporate propaganda, repeated by people who haven't really thought about it themselves.
Some people are going to be saying something like "your local stadium lost a ticket sale because of it". Then what the [expletive deleted] are they doing with YOUR money, so as to be able to lose it.
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