Directv Pay-Per-View

[Ramy]

How long does it take after you purchase a movie or an event for it to show up on your Directv bill?

 

[rad]

How long does it take after you purchase a movie or an event for it to show up on your Directv bill?

My experience has been just a couple of days before your billing cycle ends the STB will call home and download the PPV's that you've had that month. I've never reached it but I think there was also a magic number of PPV's that you purchase that when exceeded forces a call home for the download.

 

[VIASATELLITE]

If you have never hooked up your phone to the receiver, you may purchase up to 20 PPVs. Then, your card will say its' full. After you run a phone line, your card will download and you will get billed for all those events. I use PPV all the time and my phone is always connected.

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!

 

[asousa]

or just order them online.....

 

[Ramy]

The reason I was asking is because on my HD Tivo I have the Null modem hooked up to a PC through my VOIP and I haven't seen anything so far but my new bill hasn't posted yet. I was wanting to know because it has been 2 weeks since I purchased anything and haven't seen it online yet.

 

[fkostyn]

The HD Tivo will still use a phone line to send PPV, it will not go through the serial port (now this is to my knowledge, someone please correct me if I'm wrong)

 

[Loric]

My experience has been just a couple of days before your billing cycle ends the STB will call home and download the PPV's that you've had that month. I've never reached it but I think there was also a magic number of PPV's that you purchase that when exceeded forces a call home for the download.

There is indeed a maximum number of PPV you can have pending at any given time. Since there is also a maximum spending limit, it's unlikely to hit the number limit before the spending limit.