minorthr said:
I think what ed is saying is that if you ordered Sunday ticket with your remote and didn't order online or by calling D* and your phone lines are not installed it would only be active on that one tv since the other receivers would have no idea you ordered it. Thats assuming remote ordering hasnt been turned off, which I think occurs after a month or two of not calling in. If the phone line was connected it would upload that info to D* and the other receivers would be authorized.
Now if you activate online then it instantly auths all the boxes.
Thats my point.
1. DirecTV receivers do 0% programming from a phone line. This is an outbound modem to send up PPV order info if it exists.
2. They only get program authorization via the satellite feed signal.
3. I ordered the NFL and NBA via remote from the den and all four (3 not on any land line) received their "authorization hits" and showed the games just fine. No matter how you order the authorizations all occur the same way.
4. On very RARE (and I really mean RARE) occasions the modem will respond to a "phone home request" to verify that it is indeed "at home" and then if it misses Xamount, they can send a shut-down signal also via the satellite and not the phone line. This is supposed to be there way of fighting commercial theft of sports pack signal. (Pay for home use and then use it at a club or other mass-viewing location)
Since 1996 I have had this happen ONCE (in 1999) on my main receiver because the wife rearranged the furniture and we had no phone jack close. About six months later I got an on-screen message and had to call in and explain, they sent a "re-hit" while I was on the phone and that was the end of that. They will have to come up with an additional (or better) way to fight commercial theft of sports packages because the "land-line" issue is stone age.