OK Stone - straight up question. I'm grandfathered many years now for the east feeds and live on the "left" coast. You saying that if I upgrade my 2 very old SD boxes to HD like the rest (total of 4 boxes) I lose my east net feeds?
Have been thinking of updating the old boxes (no ST

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No way will that fly (but I do own an RV

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Edit: Stone - don't compromise your DTV gig just to help the board - it's a fine line & make sure you stay on the right side!
Ok my understanding is this if they say grandfathered your fine no mater what. As grandfathered supposed to mean that they were pre-ftc invlovement back when anyone and there mother could have them.
Now my understanding is this.
Customer signs up for service but xyz market is not covered by locals and we say standard offer HR2x + 3 d11/12 boxes.
1 year later dtv adds locals but all new locals are being added as mpeg4
Customer gets letter from us about locals being available, we come out replace all he d11/12 with mpeg 4. We add locals and then usually by the next billing cycle our billing system drops there dns channels.
But lets say insead of that customer says never gets letter and then over the corse of time replaces equipment with all mpeg4 stuff and locals are available a random audit might then add there locals and again cause dns channels to drop off.
But again my understanding is Grandfathered dns is safe. As tc says we holding up to the same agreement we had with you before the ftc got there nose in it. With the only exception of being if you go 30 days or more being disconnect do to non payment we cant reinstate those dns channels.
Oh dont worry about my job. they have to work hard to figure out who I am. Also worst case scenario i get a slap on the wrist . Out of all the call centers dtv has they could not tell me if I was in the world . For all they know i could be one of those late night forgien operators.