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To: Sector Investor who wrote (1423)	9/24/2002 3:11:57 PM
From: David Semoreson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7249

DirecTV has a plastic access card that is inserted into a slot in any hardware satellite receiver (which is attached to the dish). The card has a unique ID number that DTV associates with a specific subscriber so they can control the access to each channel based on your subscriptions. Because the data connection through the satellite is one-way, changing subscriptions requires a voice phone call by the subscriber. To facilitate onscreen pay-per-view purchases, DTV requires a phone jack to send the hardware's purchase request over the phone line. The question is: if a subscriber has a second dish (RV, boat, cottage, etc) can they simply remove this card and insert in the new location, or whether DTV somehow "marries" the hardware and the card to prevent this "sharing".