| If you choose an HDTV set without a | DIRECTV will accept a wide variety of |
| DIRECTV Receiver built in, you can upgrade | industry-standard formats and will transmit in |
| to an HDTV-compatible receiver when you | any or all of the Advanced Television Systems |
| purchase a new monitor. However, your | Committee (ATSC) and other |
| current DIRECTV equipment will provide you | industry-standard transmitting formats, |
| with digital-quality programming for as long as | essentially remaining format-neutral. |
| you own the system, when used with either an | |
| analog or HDTV set. | DIRECTV combines America's favorite |
| | network channels, other popular networks not |
| The DVR offers hours of digital recording | available from many cable services, a pay per |
| without videotape, allowing you to | view movie service with up to 55 choices of |
| automatically record every episode of your | movies and special events, and an |
| favorite shows every time it's on! You can | unprecedented sports subscription lineup. No |
| record two shows at once and even pause live | other systems offers as many quality program |
| TV, rewind, watch in slow motion, and create | options. |
| instant replays. | |
|
|
St. Louis |
Washington |
Des Moines |
Baton Rouge |
Kansas City |
Monroe |
Winter Park |
Cerritos |
Greenville |
Mount Pleasant |
Billings |
Brainerd |
Alpharetta |
Morehead |
Elizabethton |
Bloomingdale |
Atmore |
Girard |
Shreveport |
Boonville |
Middleboro |
|
|
| The DIRECTV System is compatible with | The Digital Satellite Recorder can record two |
| Dolby Pro Logic Surround-Sound and Dolby | shows at once. It can even record two shows |
| Digital. To get true surround-sound, you will | while you watch a third, previously recorded |
| need a Dolby Pro Logic or Dolby Digital | show. To take full advantage of this feature, |
| surround sound processing unit. You will be | you'll need to ensure that two satellite inputs |
| able to experience surround-sound if your | from a dual-LNB system dish antenna are |
| home theater system has surround-sound | connected to their Satellite Recorder. |
| capability. | |
| | The DVR service will only delete programs |
| Through an alliance with Music Choice, | when the recorder has reached its full |
| DIRECTV offers up to 31 different audio-only | capacity and needs to make room for other |
| channels that range from choices like Soft | shows you've requested it to record. When |
| Rock, Jazz and Country to Hit List, Easy | this occurs, DVR will first delete TiVo |
| Listening and many more. | Suggestions followed by the oldest recorded |
| | programs not marked "Keep Until I Delete." |
| | You can easily control how long programs are |
| | stored using recording "Options." It's also |
| | easy to transfer any recorded programs to |
| | tape using your VCR. |
|
