QUOTE: "It will be the same for Dish or DirecTV... Without an active internet connection, you can only watch what is on the guide (PPV or included in your pkg) at the time. Not really a way around this."
Okay - that's what I thought, after all this asking and calling. But also not what I was told by the DTV sellers. And, now today, for the second call, was told the same thing at DISH ... so this answers my question ... thanks to all who helped here ... M 44
pulsar wrote: Neither Dish nor DirecTV can tell where your receiver is located. If you take a receiver from your house and use a comparable antenna, you can receive the same channels in your RV and you do at home with the exception, if you drive out of the spot beam, you will not receive locals.
The trouble arises when you want to add DNS to the home account.
It means you get the local network channels from NY or LA only, the news and nightly TV shows on NBC, CBS, FOX etc - and at the time it shows in NY and LA, not where you happen to be parked.
When we are on the road, I call Dish, and give the address of my new location, and usually with in 5 minutes, I am watching the locals in my new spot. I have been doing this for almost 5 years now, from Wyoming to Key West to Vegas, to any where I have gone. Sometimes it is every day as we travel to our destination. They gave me a Dual tuner DVR for the coach and all I pay is $7.00 a month for the additional receiver. They know where it is located, they know there is no phone hooked to it, and they help me every time it gets cranky from sitting with out power for several days when we are not traveling.
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eHoefler wrote: When we are on the road, I call Dish, and give the address of my new location, and usually with in 5 minutes, I am watching the locals in my new spot. I have been doing this for almost 5 years now, from Wyoming to Key West to Vegas, to any where I have gone. Sometimes it is every day as we travel to our destination. They gave me a Dual tuner DVR for the coach and all I pay is $7.00 a month for the additional receiver. They know where it is located, they know there is no phone hooked to it, and they help me every time it gets cranky from sitting with out power for several days when we are not traveling.
Just to clarify, they know where your receiver is because you tell them; there is no way they can track it.
Also, if you want a PPV on the road, all you do is call Dish and they will authorize it. We do it all the time. We are very satisfied with Dish. We also left Direct because of lies and billing problems, a few years back.
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Quote: ...we don't care specifically about 'what's on now" we want to watch a movie from the DISH network catalog of movies (not PPV, just a movie) that doesn't need an internet connection to 'record it"...
What catalog of movies is he talking about? We are on DISH and I do not know of this feature
Quote: ...we don't care specifically about 'what's on now" we want to watch a movie from the DISH network catalog of movies (not PPV, just a movie) that doesn't need an internet connection to 'record it"...
What catalog of movies is he talking about? We are on DISH and I do not know of this feature
He's referring to the Dish "Video On Demand" movie selections that require either a phone or broadband connection on selected receivers.
Texan - That's why we left DTV as well - our bills were ALWAYS higher than we ordered, and the staff was very, very untrained. They even billed us $330 for the BOX we returned, so we're now disputing that with MasterCard.
We're now debating whether to try the DISH network, and hear good things about it ... so, will put that in the mix ...
And, for the other question - the demand feature we asked about - well it doesn't exist for RV on the road, we thought it did, and that we just couldn't figure out how to do it - but it does require a phone or hard-wire connection of some sort. So, RV can't use it.
If you have a home phone or home internet hard wire, the movie-on-demand feature is available (I think?) ... but as we have neither, we can't get it anyway, at home or RV. We use only hotspot web and cell phone no matter if home or on the road.
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