| The DVR offers hours of digital recording | DIRECTV allows you to connect more than |
| without videotape, allowing you to | one television in a single household to our |
| automatically record every episode of your | services. If your receivers are connected to |
| favorite shows every time it's on! You can | the same phone line, DIRECTV can 'mirror' |
| record two shows at once and even pause live | your subscription, allowing you to receive the |
| TV, rewind, watch in slow motion, and create | same level of programming on these |
| instant replays. | televisions, only charging you a nominal |
| | monthly fee for each additional receiver. |
| As high-definition programming increasingly | |
| becomes the TV standard, customers will need | DIRECTV asks customers to connect the |
| to invest in new TV monitors to receive it. | receiver to a land-based phone line for billing |
| DIRECTV feels the best approach will be to | and pay per view ordering purposes. You |
| look for an HDTV set with an integrated | cannot connect a cellular phone to your |
| DIRECTV Receiver. | receiver; it must be a land-based phone line. |
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| The DVR service will only delete programs | DIRECTV combines America's favorite |
| when the recorder has reached its full | network channels, other popular networks not |
| capacity and needs to make room for other | available from many cable services, a pay per |
| shows you've requested it to record. When | view movie service with up to 55 choices of |
| this occurs, DVR will first delete TiVo | movies and special events, and an |
| Suggestions followed by the oldest recorded | unprecedented sports subscription lineup. No |
| programs not marked "Keep Until I Delete." | other systems offers as many quality program |
| You can easily control how long programs are | options. |
| stored using recording "Options." It's also | |
| easy to transfer any recorded programs to | The most distinguishing features of HDTV are |
| tape using your VCR. | the aspect ratio and increased lines of |
| | resolution. HDTV's aspect ratio is 16:9 |
| | (Width:Height) as opposed to 4:3 of the |
| | current NTSC system. Films will retain their |
| | original size and resolution, and the sound can |
| | be delivered in "digital-quality" 5-channel |
| | DIRECTV is the first satellite TV service whose |
| | receiving system is built into HDTV sets, so |
| | viewers who purchase this HDTV equipment |
| | will have easy access. |
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