| DIRECTV allows you to connect more than | Their new Digital Satellite Recorder has all the |
| one television in a single household to our | same features as their Receiver with TiVo - |
| services. If your receivers are connected to | but with a new name! |
| the same phone line, DIRECTV can 'mirror' | |
| your subscription, allowing you to receive the | The Digital Satellite Recorder is available in |
| same level of programming on these | many configurations, for single or multi-room. |
| televisions, only charging you a nominal | |
| monthly fee for each additional receiver. | The DVR service will only delete programs |
| | when the recorder has reached its full |
| DIRECTV asks customers to connect the | capacity and needs to make room for other |
| receiver to a land-based phone line for billing | shows you've requested it to record. When |
| and pay per view ordering purposes. You | this occurs, DVR will first delete TiVo |
| cannot connect a cellular phone to your | Suggestions followed by the oldest recorded |
| receiver; it must be a land-based phone line. | 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. |
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Chicago |
Jacksonville |
Indianapolis |
Marietta |
Santa Ana |
Fullerton |
Johnson City |
Peoria |
Red Bank |
Elizabethtown |
Rockville |
Parsippany |
Santa Fe |
Maumee |
Marysville |
Las Vegas |
Brookings |
Lander |
St. Charles |
Smithtown |
Ventura |
Brockton |
Flagstaff |
Rockland |
Pella |
Baltimore |
Sonora |
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| DIRECTV will accept a wide variety of | If you choose an HDTV set without a |
| industry-standard formats and will transmit in | DIRECTV Receiver built in, you can upgrade |
| any or all of the Advanced Television Systems | to an HDTV-compatible receiver when you |
| Committee (ATSC) and other | purchase a new monitor. However, your |
| industry-standard transmitting formats, | current DIRECTV equipment will provide you |
| essentially remaining format-neutral. | with digital-quality programming for as long as |
| | you own the system, when used with either an |
| The most distinguishing features of HDTV are | analog or HDTV set. |
| the aspect ratio and increased lines of | |
| resolution. HDTV's aspect ratio is 16:9 | As high-definition programming increasingly |
| (Width:Height) as opposed to 4:3 of the | becomes the TV standard, customers will need |
| current NTSC system. Films will retain their | to invest in new TV monitors to receive it. |
| original size and resolution, and the sound can | DIRECTV feels the best approach will be to |
| be delivered in "digital-quality" 5-channel | look for an HDTV set with an integrated |
| DIRECTV is the first satellite TV service whose | DIRECTV Receiver. |
| receiving system is built into HDTV sets, so | |
| viewers who purchase this HDTV equipment | |
| will have easy access. | |
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