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Re: [DIRECTV] Question about how DIRECT TV WORKS.
Read this page
»electronics.howstuffworks.com/sa···-tv6.htm
and the one after it (use the next page link).
The LNBs on the dish receive the signal from a particular satellite - not for a particular receiver but for all connected receivers.
You don't "buy" the receivers from Best Buy - it's a lease initiation fee just like you'd pay if you got them directly from DirecTV. Your "friend" is incorrect.
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Joe12345678
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Des Plaines, IL | also going directly to DirecTV will get you a better deal.
Now I think a HD DVR is free. |
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clubs: | No matter were you get the boxes they are ALL LEASED now. You can not buy them |
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dbmaven
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clubs: | That's simply not true. |
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clubs: | Well with the exception of getting one from ebay that you"hope" is owned |
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| Still not true.
You can call DirecTV and request to outright purchase any receiver. The pricing might be a bit hard to swallow (for example, the last I heard an HD-DVR like the HR20/21 was around $500) - and you might have to play a bit of CSR roulette to find one who actually knows how to do it - but you can purchase them.
They don't want you to - and they make it difficult to do. But it can be done.
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