On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 11:51 AM, j eric townsend wrote:
> At 16:58 -0800 2002/02/11, Tim May wrote:
>> No, they don't care about the receiver's location.
>
> Yes they do. They care when it comes to determining what local market
> you're in for the purposes of providing local station
At 16:58 -0800 2002/02/11, Tim May wrote:
>No, they don't care about the receiver's location.
Yes they do. They care when it comes to determining what local
market you're in for the purposes of providing local stations.
>Data point: My DirecTV receiver was hooked up without a telephone
>hooku
On Monday, February 11, 2002, at 02:44 PM, j eric townsend wrote:
> At 14:04 -0800 2002/02/11, Tim May wrote:
>> I believe _only_ for PPV, as my phone line has been "unavailable" to
>> the UTV box for most of the time it's been in my house. (I never use
>> PPV.)
>
> It's required for PPV, but
Tim May wrote:
>I recently got an "UltimateTV" hard disk recorder, manufactured by >Sony and part of
>the Microsoft/WebTV/DirecTV product consortium (or >whatever it is).
Alert the fucking media.
>FWIW, I paid $250 at Circuit City (after $200 in rebates), plus I >signed up for the
>$10 a mon
