</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue">You dont have to have a phone line with DTV, you just wont have the ability to order PPV through the receiver. Thats the only reason why, you can mirror your package on another receiver for $4.99 a month and that dosent require a Phone line either.</font>
Unless they have changed their policy since we signed up two years ago, which I received in writing, ordering the second receiver does requires a phone line on both receivers. Here's a current quote from DirecTV:
<font color="red"> Q: If I have more than one receiver, do I have to pay a full monthly subscription for each receiver?
A: No. DIRECTV allows you to connect more than one television in a single household to our services. If your receivers are connected to the same phone line, we can "mirror" your subscription. In other words, the programming you request for the primary access card in your receiver is copied for all of the access cards in the other receivers and you are authorized to receive this same level or programming on these televisions. Instead of charging you a separate monthly subscription for each receiver, we simply charge a $4.99 monthly service fee for each additional receiver.
When we "mirror" your subscription to additional receivers, we do verify that all your receivers are continuously connected to the same phone line. If we find that a receiver with "mirror" service is not connected to the phone line, we will discontinue service to that receiver and you will need to call us to re-establish that service. </font>
You are correct that it is not required on single receiver installations unless you want PPV.
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DirectTV solved the "hacker" issue over a year ago when a new card was issued. The updates you mentioned were either specific to your brand and where not across the board....The DVR models most likely were updated because of software bugs, not security issues.... </font>
We have had DTV for two years. We have never been issued a new card. No one will ever "solve" the hacker issue; they can only fight it continually. As long as there is something to steal, some people with always try to get it for free.
The updates were across the board and involved a general reprogramming of access cards, a routine anti piracy activity, according to the information I received. The problems themselves were specific to only certain groups of receivers. We were lucky enough to have two of them. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
We do not have a DVR.
The fact that you have different information on what happened than I, illustrates the lack of communciations and customer care from DTV.
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Snowridge,
I stand behind my statement on phone lines not required for every receiver only the primary receiver would need a phone line if mirroring the subscription was done ($4.99 option), and the PPV option would not be available..
They do not require phone lines for RV and Boat applications as another example.
As for your card not being switched, thats because you have the newer card already, otherwise it wouldnt work and you would have no TV. DTV no longer has a hacking problem - Period- DISH network does but thats ending as we speak....Give me the model of your receiver and I can tell you what the update was for. Since the security is no longer an issue, the updates (if any) were not about that. I'm curious as to the date, make and model of these events because I havent heard a complaint similair to yours -
Sound like equipment issues instead....
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