Recent content by sportse

that is good to hear. What will happen later when you don't own that receiver? I guess that is and will be the mystery.

Doesn't D* charge an arm and 2 legs to upgrade receivers for current subscribers, or has that gotten better? I guess maybe that is my issue with it. If you are leasing the equipment and a new receiver comes out that is better, as a current subscriber, they get you again with the fees.

Thank you for the response (as sarcastic and sharp as some of it was). I DID read it and the reason I called was to ask what the point of the "contract" was, if in turn I never owned anything. I wanted the rationale behind it as it seemed strange to lock someone into a contract when nothing...

What about the 2 year CONTRACT? Isn't that different than a "lease"? A lease doesn't go away after 2 years, but a contract does.....It sounds like the "Supervisor" in customer service was full of it.

follow-up Thank you for the comment, but can you clarify why you chose your position? Do you know or are you assuming? The "lease fee" for additional receivers is regardless of whether or not you own the receiver (I asked since I have 2 DirecTv receivers in the garage from a previous...

From everything I have read/heard, DirecTv owns the receivers indefinitely, even beyond the TWO year contract. This seemed strange and many of the reps said the same thing when I called. I finally got to a customer service person that talked to a supervisor. This supervisor said you do OWN...