| Through an alliance with Music Choice, | DIRECTV will accept a wide variety of |
| DIRECTV offers up to 31 different audio-only | industry-standard formats and will transmit in |
| channels that range from choices like Soft | any or all of the Advanced Television Systems |
| Rock, Jazz and Country to Hit List, Easy | Committee (ATSC) and other |
| Listening and many more. | industry-standard transmitting formats, |
| | essentially remaining format-neutral. |
| DIRECTV asks customers to connect the | |
| receiver to a land-based phone line for billing | High-definition television (HDTV) is a new kind |
| and pay per view ordering purposes. You | of television system that involves improvements |
| cannot connect a cellular phone to your | in both the production and reception of |
| receiver; it must be a land-based phone line. | television broadcasts. |
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New York |
San Francisco |
St. Louis |
Tucson |
Albuquerque |
Cleveland |
Henderson |
Saginaw |
North Little Rock |
Fort Worth |
Newport News |
Lexington |
Nampa |
Henderson |
Moore |
El Dorado |
Marietta |
Milwaukie |
Chelmsford |
Maple Grove |
Searcy |
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| The DVR service will only delete programs | As high-definition programming increasingly |
| when the recorder has reached its full | becomes the TV standard, customers will need |
| capacity and needs to make room for other | to invest in new TV monitors to receive it. |
| shows you've requested it to record. When | DIRECTV feels the best approach will be to |
| this occurs, DVR will first delete TiVo | look for an HDTV set with an integrated |
| Suggestions followed by the oldest recorded | DIRECTV Receiver. |
| programs not marked "Keep Until I Delete." | |
| You can easily control how long programs are | The DVR offers hours of digital recording |
| stored using recording "Options." It's also | without videotape, allowing you to |
| easy to transfer any recorded programs to | automatically record every episode of your |
| tape using your VCR. | favorite shows every time it's on! You can |
| | record two shows at once and even pause live |
| | TV, rewind, watch in slow motion, and create |
| | instant replays. |
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