Directv, Sunday Ticket, and no house... possible?

Candikane wrote:
Will Sunday Ticket work without a landline?

I don't know of any DTV service that still requires a landline. I really don't know about the other questions. Bill Satellite is the resident expert.. he'll know.

I have Direct with no land line. Also, just signed up for NFL MAX. Apparently you can use it on your tablet or Android too although I have not tried it. Don't know anything about the address question.

Directv lets you make a seasonal service address change and we get every thing that is at the stick house. Only you get the network local stations that happen to be in the area. Not sure you can do that every week or so, but we just spend winter in AZ. Works for us.

If you have a DirecTV RV Account with DNS you get the same network stations regardless of where you are physically located. This means you don't have to reprogram your DVR's every time you move. The station numbers don't change. Yes, you have to pay for DNS, but it worth it for me.

We have Dish, but I assume much is the same.
We set up our satellite and receivers at our house and then moved out and sold the house. The dish account is still at our old address, but we aren't. We receive our bills electronically, so there is no problem.
We have a sports package that, to receive our home baseball games (MASN) we have to 'live' in the region to receive the feed. We do not change our address as we move (have been from Idaho to Florida) so we continue to receive the home baseball games. We do not receive the locals of the area we are in but we prefer to receive the home baseball games so it works for us.
The question with Directv is whether or not the feed is national or regional. With Dish, the feed is national but your box is programmed to receive the feeds based on address.

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Candikane wrote:
I've searched the forums like crazy and can't find a solid answer. Can I set up Directv (we have cable now) at my current house (which is being sold), take the dish and box along when we start fulltiming, and just change my account address to a PO Box somewhere? Will Sunday Ticket work without a landline? Will using an address in a different state set THAT local area as my Sunday Ticket blackout region, allowing me to still receive my home state team's games?

The Sunday ticket will work. The glitch will be there will be a blackout of games that are showing on the "local" to where you are parked network. Directv is required by either FCC law or the NFL (I have no idea who) to black out the games on the Sunday Ticket that are being broadcast on a local affiliate in the spot beam of the local affiliate. Sometimes having DNS will work around that issue, sometimes an over the air antenna will be the work around, and sometimes you just don't get the game you want even though you pay hundreds of dollars for the Sunday Ticket.

" Can I set up Directv (we have cable now) at my current house (which is being sold), take the dish and box along when we start fulltiming, and just change my account address to a PO Box somewhere?"

Yes you can, although its to your advantage to file the DNS waiver with a copy of your RV registration to get the DNS east/west network chan feeds; DTV uses 2 addresses, your billing/mailing address and your "service" address, A POB or PMB is ok for mailing, for the service address they may insist on a street address, or you just pretend your #1234 is an Apt bldg.

"Will Sunday Ticket work without a landline?"
Yes it will work fine. the only thing a landline is required for is ordering PPV via the on screen menu/remote

"Will using an address in a different state set THAT local area as my Sunday Ticket blackout region, allowing me to still receive my home state team's games?"
For most fulltimers, our DTV service address is our mail forwarding address; mine is Box Elder, SD where there are no home games, so I don't recall ever having games blacked out. a few fulltimers who choose not to use the DNS national network feeds, & change their physical service address as they move and I assume that would effect whats blacked out.

Doesn't using the rv package and dns require buying new hardware though, that costs $2-3k? I'm looking at taking a home package w/dish along to avoid that.

I have the Baseball package and I have no problems. So, I don't think it would be a problem