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Posted by BobR on November 14, 2007, 3:40 pm
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> >> What is the phone audit all about anyway, are you saying you get a call
> >> from DTV wanting s/n's from your receivers?
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> >Yes -- we have four receivers (Living Room, 2 Bedrooms, hobby room), and
> >about two months after installation we got a call auditing our use of the
> >receivers, asking for a couple of code numbers out of the software for each
> >receiver. This required going to each room, turning on the system and
> >getting setup info on the screen. Being careful and not sure who was
> >actually calling, I wouldn't answer their questions and asked for their
> >phone number. Then I called Dish TV (my provider) but their customer
> >service wasn't aware of what was happening (so I didn't return the auditer's
> >phone call). Two days later my satellite service was shut off, even though
> >I was paid up. I called CS again, they transferred me to the audit company,
> >and we went through our system receiver by receiver. They told me at the
> >time that they would shut down any receivers that couldn't be audited and
> >would start charging a monthly fee to have them reinstated. Within an hour
> >of the end of the audit satellite service was restored.
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> >The audit was not particularly friendly (I won't go into details, but they
> >appeared to be starting from the position that I was cheating on them by
> >having receivers spread out in several houses.) There have been a few times
> >when I have seriously considered terminating the Dish TV service, and this
> >was one of those time. If I hadn't had a lot of my money already tied up by
> >purchasing the Dish receivers, I probably would have moved to Direct TV at
> >that time. I did make a formal complaint to Dish TV Customer Service about
> >this procedure, and it hasn't happened to me since.
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> >It may be that if you only have two receivers you're a less visible
> >target -- certainly someone with four receivers is in the top few % of their
> >business and anyone trying to get away with having receivers in multiple
> >houses is likely to have four or more receivers, so we were an obvious
> >target --
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> Which really shows just how poorly the one box per room design is. 4
> TVs is not an uncommon thing. Paying rent to the satellite company
> for 4 is. It is a very unfair charge.
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> The unscrambling design could have been done on the incoming signal
> before splitting it to the rooms. It was a conscious decision on the
> part of the satellite company to charge more. Most people don't pay
> extra and are inconvenienced by having to watch the same show in more
> than one room. The tuner and the remote control for the TV are
> useless.
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Clearly you have a very poor understanding of how the Satellite
systems work and more importantly how the descrambler works. I sure
don't think you would be willing to pay the price of a descrambler
that would have to descramble all the signals for hundreds of channels
and post them on different frequencies on your internal wiring.
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