Question about Direct TV..
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Question about Direct TV..
I'll try to be brief as possible on this...so bear with me please. To make a long story short, my girlfriend moved her Direct TV service to my house last November when she moved in here because she had just signed the year's contract. Her house is approx. 10 miles south of mine and the plan she had there is the same as it is here only we get local channels out of Memphis here at my location where she could not get local channels at her location.
My question is....if we take one of the receivers back to her house and hook it up(we have 3) will the receiver work like before when it was there? Are the boxes programmed for specific address locations?
We plan on staying at her house some while doing work there and we would like to watch some tv at night. Anyone know what will happen if we take a receiver back to her house?
Thanks for the replys.
Richard
My question is....if we take one of the receivers back to her house and hook it up(we have 3) will the receiver work like before when it was there? Are the boxes programmed for specific address locations?
We plan on staying at her house some while doing work there and we would like to watch some tv at night. Anyone know what will happen if we take a receiver back to her house?
Thanks for the replys.
Richard
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I'm not positive but I don't think it matters where the receivers are used. As long as the dishes are pointed in the proper direction for each location you should be fine. A lot of people use there receivers in their campers and such and they just pull it out and put it back in their house when they are done....
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Originally Posted by JEV
I'm not positive but I don't think it matters where the receivers are used. As long as the dishes are pointed in the proper direction for each location you should be fine. A lot of people use there receivers in their campers and such and they just pull it out and put it back in their house when they are done....
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Local channels are limited to certain areas. Even though I am just as far away from Baltimore MD, I get the Washington DC local channels. Baltimore's channels are not available to me. For those areas that DTV doesn't offer local channels, you can get the East coast or West coast channels. Also, it depends on how far you are from your local channels as to whether you can even get them over DTV.
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You can move your receivers from house to house temporarily, but you've got to hook up the phone line if you want any pay-per-views. If you're only moving the boxes on weekends and such, it shouldn't be a problem. DirecTV switched to what they call "spot beam" technology a few years ago. What this means is that you will only get the locals from your area because they have the capability to focus to a smaller area.
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Thanks guys but I must ask this too. I know the dishes are pointed to the same site in the sky. Local Memphis channels are not offerd in that area. The cards in the boxes are programmed to pick up local channels here at my place so will they be picked up from her place even though they are not offered there?
We won't leave the box there all the time.
What gets me is that even though her house is just 10 miles south...she can't even get network channels...or so she was told.
Sounds like someone is feeding her a line.
We won't leave the box there all the time.
What gets me is that even though her house is just 10 miles south...she can't even get network channels...or so she was told.
Sounds like someone is feeding her a line.
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It may be that even though it's only 10 miles south, the don't have the rights to broadcast in that area. To answer your question, you should be able to get whatever channels are programmed on the CARD in the reciever. Regardless of where the box is.
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Sounds to me like someone is pulling her chain. Spot beam tech only works when you travel way outside your area. We have had Direct TV for 4 or 5 years now and we have a portable dish for our motorhome. We can get my local channels anywhere I move in the Dallas metroplex. Example: We just moved 30 miles east and still get the same channels including the locals. If we drive to Houston on El Paso, our local channels go away. You can litterally take your dish anywhere you want to go (in the USA) and get a signal as long as you have a fairly good, unobscured view of the southern sky. The only thing you'll miss is the local channels. There is one exception. If you sign a declaration with Direct TV stating that you use your system strictly in your RV, you can get pay per view by remote, (no phone line needed) and local channels anywhere you are. We've not tried the local channel thing as we don't need them, but we do have pay per view by remote. Go ahead and move it and enjoy your system.
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my friends all work for direct tv and they said that peridically they check recievers to make sure ppl arnt stealing and they said there is a location finder in on that... so i dunno... they may be pissed about having one service in 2 houses
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You might try here to see if local channels are available.
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/LocalChannelsAction.do
A lot also depends on whether your local stations are allowing DTV to retransmit there programming to some areas. There are limitations. It is not just anyone can get local channels. These include rules by the FCC and some special laws that were passed by congress just to allow it.
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/LocalChannelsAction.do
A lot also depends on whether your local stations are allowing DTV to retransmit there programming to some areas. There are limitations. It is not just anyone can get local channels. These include rules by the FCC and some special laws that were passed by congress just to allow it.
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Local channel availability goes by your zip code. The zip code puts you inside of a "footprint" of availability for local channels. If you live outside the footprint, even by ten feet, then forget getting local channels. Where I live I fall in the footprint for Richmond, Va, even though I am about 45 miles away. Friends of mine about ten miles away live in a different zip code and fall in the footprint for Charlottesville, which does not have any local channels being broadcast on Directtv. (They are available on Dish Network). The kicker is that if you live in an area that does not have local channel availability, you are able to get the major network feeds (abc, nbc,etc) from the East and West coast feeds UNLESS your local "over the air" broadcast channels protest this. In Charlottesville there is (or was until recently) only one over the air channel, an NBC affiliate, and they do indeed forbid people from receiving the NBC feeds over their satellite dishes, they want to force them to watch it over the air.
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Part of the setup of the recievers is entering your zipcode. I wonder what happens if you go in and try setting a different zipcode in the box? Could be interesting to try.
There is no way the sat beam is so refined that moving the unit could result in any loss of signal. Therefore in theory you could enter a Dallas code and get Dallas channels, etc. Even though the zipcode is used mainly for dish pointing info.
You might want to compare the zip's in yours and her units to see if there is a difference - then use the zipcode that works. IF the channels come up all of a sudden, I'm right and it works. Let us know, otay?
There is no way the sat beam is so refined that moving the unit could result in any loss of signal. Therefore in theory you could enter a Dallas code and get Dallas channels, etc. Even though the zipcode is used mainly for dish pointing info.
You might want to compare the zip's in yours and her units to see if there is a difference - then use the zipcode that works. IF the channels come up all of a sudden, I'm right and it works. Let us know, otay?