Starting in January DIRECTV will be rolling out a new receiver exclusively for Commercial Establishments. The new boxes will not use Satellite but will instead use IPTV.
I was told that the requirements is an 8 meg internet connection for each receiver, and they will allow up to 20 receivers on one account.
I was told that going forward these will be installed in Commercial businesses instead of Satellite receivers.
In talking to my friend from DIRECTV I was told the biggest issue with these boxes, is lets say you have a sports bar you have one of these receivers connected to each TV and lets say you want to show the same channel (or game) on a few of your TV's... well the channels audio and video will be out of sync between each tv, due to the IPTV technology.
I asked why they didn't make this receiver to go into a headend so the same programming will be in sync on all TV's and was told they are looking to get away from Headend setups.
I should be able to see one of these new units next month.
I was told that the requirements is an 8 meg internet connection for each receiver, and they will allow up to 20 receivers on one account.
I was told that going forward these will be installed in Commercial businesses instead of Satellite receivers.
In talking to my friend from DIRECTV I was told the biggest issue with these boxes, is lets say you have a sports bar you have one of these receivers connected to each TV and lets say you want to show the same channel (or game) on a few of your TV's... well the channels audio and video will be out of sync between each tv, due to the IPTV technology.
I asked why they didn't make this receiver to go into a headend so the same programming will be in sync on all TV's and was told they are looking to get away from Headend setups.
I should be able to see one of these new units next month.
