Direct TV Test Cards

Direct TV test cards are delivered with each system you order from Direct TV. The access card works basically like a license plate or registration number for your satellite TV system. Not only does it provides security and encryption information, it allows you to control the use of your system. The Direct TV test cards are also the way the company captures billing information that is specific to your account (such as Pay Per View programming).

These Direct TV test cards each contain a microprocessor that enables the card to act as an auxiliary processor for the satellite receiver. Your receiver is connected to a land-based phone line for billing and pay per view ordering purposes. This connection sends your program purchase information from the receiver to the company’s computer system. With this phone connection, customers are authorized to order pay per view movies and events, get sports subscriptions like NFL Sunday Ticket, and have the programming subscription on their main receiver mirrored to other receivers that are connected to the same phone line.

If you’ve been intrigued by ads touting free satellite TV, they will be selling pirated Direct TV test cards. These illegal access cards are supposed to allow viewers to access all channels on the system. Yet these cards often fail to work, so the cost and hassle of stealing the signal are literally a gamble.

The illegal Direct TV test cards may not even be compatible with your system, or may only work for a short time. The main fault with them is that the satellite providers have the technology to frequently “hash” the pirate cards on a regular basis, sometimes 3 or 4 times a week, making them useless. It makes more sense, and it is less expensive in the long run, to use an approved access card from DirecTV and upgrade your satellite TV programming package if you want more channels.

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