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Originally Posted by scottfree
I was at my brother's house today and his Direct Tv had been shut off due to nonpayment but he was recieving a bunch of fta channels. How can he be getting them? We watched TBN, NASA, and RFD networks and he says he gets a bunch more.
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Are you sure that this wasn't a case of a PIRATED
DTV box? Ie perhaps he was stealing service and they fixed the signal so he couldn't receive channels anymore, but for some reason is still getting a couple???
I don't know about the other channels, but NASA-TV is NOT FTA on the DTV satellite. There are some channels that aren't encrypted, such as the channel 100,200, etc which have prevues, so they might be considered as FTA, although you can't view them with most FTA receivers.
But NASA is definately encrypted on the DTV 101 sat, so unless DTV was making these things available to people who recently lost their subscriptions, which I find doubtful, then I think there is something fishy going on there.
Now, that being said, NASA-TV IS FTA on the Dishnet sats, and you can use a DTV dish/lnb to receive that sat. So it is possible that he was using a regular FTA DVB receiver to receive a couple channels on Dishnet that happen to be FTA at the time. (not many, but occasionally some, besides NASA and GOL).
But if he was receiving these things on a DTV receiver, something is fishy. Only thing I can figure is that it sometimes takes receivers a while before it figures out that it isn't subscribed to things, but I think this type thing is on the order of minutes, so if you were watching for very long, then I don't think that was the situation.