DIRECTV On Demand Now Available Nationwide

Started by Shane • Jun 30, 2008 • 3 posts

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#1 Jun 30, 2008 at 5:06 pm

DIRECTV, Inc. (NASDAQ:DTV), the nation's leading satellite television service provider, today launched its highly anticipated DIRECTV on Demand service to customers across the country. The platform is available at no additional charge to customers with a DIRECTV Plus(R) HD DVR or R22 DVR receiver, and offers more than 4,000 standard-definition and HD titles, 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week.

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#2 Jun 30, 2008 at 7:50 pm

The service may be free but the content is not. All HD offerings I saw were PPV, even some TV shows. You could spent a lot of money waiting for the slow downloads, at least they were slow during the Beta period when I first hooked up.

#3 Jul 1, 2008 at 12:30 am

Only the movies that were currently on PPV had an extra charge as far as I could tell. I guess now DirecTV can claim another HD channel for each on-demand HD show just like Comcast......