HarleyD said:
He's maintaining the family's ability to watch TV simultaneously in different rooms, the same as he currently enjoys. He's not providing programming to additional people. He is not expanding the actual consumption of the product beyond what he currently receives.
It's not significantly different than the kids being in a bedroom and watching. The bedroom is just 12 miles away. As a transitional stopgap I don't share your moral outrage. He's not cheating DirecTV out of anything.
Exactly. He's not trying to finagle service at a vacation home or fishing cabin for an indefinite period of time, used concurrently with service at the primary residence. He just has two houses for a brief, finite time.
Surely we don't expect the OP to establish a new, additional account for service intended to be used for only 14 days or so. (One could argue that he simply let the service move when the installer installs it at the new place, but then we wouldn't have our little scenario to discuss here.
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As for the guest house scenario someone mentioned earlier...how would that work? I'm talking about a separate structure on the same property as a customer's main home. Does that require separate service with its own full monthly bill?
A relative of mine has a swimming pool at her home. The previous owner built a "pool house" next to it that is, as I understand it, roughly the size of a small single-car garage. It is set up like a small apartment, with a sitting area, bathroom, and kitchenette. I don't think there is a bedroom, but it has a sofa sleeper, and they have had guests use it overnight. It is finished, air-conditioned space. Would D* take issue with a receiver placed in that building, claiming it isn't the same as having a receiver in another room in the main house?
