[opendtv] Re: News: Stevens Vows Cable-Indecency Crackdown
- From: Henry Baker <hbaker1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:47:42 -0800
Get Vonage, and use any area code you please.
At 09:23 AM 3/8/2005, John Willkie wrote:
>Sorry for the late hit on this, but while DirecTV has requested a phone
>connection and asserts that it is required, nothing could be further from
>the truth. Where's what you miss by not having the back channel: you can't
>order pay per view via your remote control; you have to go to the web site,
>or use the telephone and talk to a human.
>
>That's it. What does DirecTV lose by not having the back channel? They
>lose the ability to know where (approximately, due to some ambiguity with
>phone line terminations) your receiver is located. So, the hundreds of
>thousands of people in Mexico who subscribe to DirecTV/US (illegally, under
>Mexican, U.S. and "international" law) never connect up to a phone line.
>And, many others.
>
>John Willkie
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