DirecTV question

[cheezy321]

Hey all,
My parents are in the process of buying a cabin, and I was attempting to talk them into switching to DirecTV once that happens because I assumed it would be cheaper than cable.

I was under this assumption for DirecTV: As long as you buy the satellite equipment and satellite boxes for both houses, you would be paying the same amount. Or do they charge you separately for each specific house? I thought that because it is satellite that they would only be charging you on one account and you wouldn't have to make two since you are buying all of the equipment. This type of situation would make a lot of sense for people with vacation homes, but I am not sure if this is how it works.....

ATOT, can you shed some light on this for me?

 

[Modelworks]

They charge two separate fees. It isn't legal but I know of people that have set up a second dish at another house, like a vacation house and used a bedroom receiver from home. Directtv does not verify that bedroom receivers are at the original homes bedroom.

 

[GeekDrew]

I called a DirecTV CSR about that a year or so ago, and was told that each satellite dish had to have its own account. I've heard that CSRs give different stories though, and things may have changed in the last year.

That said, if they bought the dish outright from an installer or etc, and moved the receiver(s) to whichever location that they were physically at... DirecTV would probably never know.

 

[rivan]

They charge you separately if you tell them the truth.

However, if you tell them you have 7 televisions in your home, and you just use the cards from those 7 wherever you want, you could likely get away with it. Just don't expect service from DTV at the cabin.

 

[Codewiz]

Unless you plug the receiver into a phone line/network connection, they have no way to know you have two separate locations on one account.

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: Codewiz
Unless you plug the receiver into a phone line/network connection, they have no way to know you have two separate locations on one account.

Not for now. They are working to remedy that in the next receivers though. I worked for RCA/GE when they released the first receivers. I hear from people on the inside that they are going to implement wifi into the next receivers that has a dual purpose. One is to connect to home wifi so they can use things like on demand without running cables. The other is to link all receivers in a home . They haven't said that it will be used to verify all receivers are there, but they are implying a lot of special things for the new boxes.

 

[cheezy321]

Originally posted by: Modelworks

Originally posted by: Codewiz
Unless you plug the receiver into a phone line/network connection, they have no way to know you have two separate locations on one account.

Not for now. They are working to remedy that in the next receivers though. I worked for RCA/GE when they released the first receivers. I hear from people on the inside that they are going to implement wifi into the next receivers that has a dual purpose. One is to connect to home wifi so they can use things like on demand without running cables. The other is to link all receivers in a home . They haven't said that it will be used to verify all receivers are there, but they are implying a lot of special things for the new boxes.

So what your saying is they should get DirecTV before the new boxes come out?