The DIRECTV Receiver or IRD (integrated receiver/decoder) is a device used to block/unblock and customized the different kinds of channels that are coming through your parabolic service. Every DIRECTV Receiver comes with Locks & Limits (parental control), access card, on-screen guide and can be seen on as many televisions as you like. With any monthly service package you can get up to five DIRECTV Receivers.

What advantages does the DIRECTV Receiver provide most? The Locks & Limits (parental control) is mostly for making sure that you don't spend too much money on PayPerView in a given month without wanting to. It can however also be used to take control of what people may and may not watch while at home alone. In the case of curious growing children, that can be important. Everyone needs to know limits sometimes. As the DIRECTV Receiver is a virtual adventure and does the job of translating everything that goes on in the digital universe of a given channel at any one time, this can be quite useful to worried parents.

The access card that comes with every single DIRECTV Receiver is in sense a kind of identification plate just for your system and will offer all the security system and encryption information needed to make the very best use of the channels you do and do not wish to view most. Also, there is a microprocessor contained inside the access card that responds as an acting auxiliary processor for the DIRECTV Receiver.

How many channels does my DIRECTV Receiver get? Depending on how many DIRECTV Receivers you have, you can determine how many different channels you can be watching at any given moment. This means for example that if you youngest daughter wants to watch Bambi, the next in line wants to watch Snow White, the preadolescent 13 year old wants to watch The Last Starfighter, your teenager wants to watch SHOWTIME and you and your spouse are interested in watching The Color Purple, everyone can be satisfied at the same time in their own beds (to be sure and sleep well).

Very different from traditional cable television, Satellite TV offered through DIRECTV Receivers can sensor whatever you want with different settings for each one. In the case of a family of seven, four DIRECTV Receivers can be geared to only accept rated PG or one PG, one PG-13, one G and one R, while the parent's DIRECTV Receiver goes without limits and accepts the full available service offered with the monthly fee.

Does that mean I need one TV for every DIRECTV Receiver? Now this doesn't mean that only one TV for every one DIRECTV Receiver, no! For every one DIRECTV Receiver in the house you can have as many TV's hooked up to that given DIRECTV Receiver as you wish. And even better, every single one of those television sets will be enslaved to the DIRECTV Receiver it is hooked up to meaning that only one remote is necessary and all the customizing guides and programming guides for channels remain the same. Using only one DIRECTV Receiver is very good for schools, clubs and businesses that intend to show the same movie or channel in different areas throughout a building simultaneously. Just imagine a party where the same video clips are being broadcasted in every single room. Everyone gets to watch the same program with each other while in different locations.

Now that is option, and the DIRECTV Receiver is all about options. If you wish to connect it to a DIRECTV DVR, you could essentially record up to 70 hours worth of programming for personal viewing later on whenever you have time. The DIRECTV Receiver was designed to make life more convenient and better our way of life.

"DIRECTV Receiver, in that sense, is a complete success."

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Gary Davis is owner of http://www.dtv-satellite.com an authorized DIRECTV retailer, has over five years experience in the Satellite TV business and has written numerous articles on the subject.