I have been living in Lima, Peru for 3 years. I've had DirecTV the entire time. It is the Latin American version which is decent but as a US expat I'd love to have network channels. I have been researching this off and on for the entire 3 years almost as a side hobby. What I have been able to learn:
1. I'd need about a 30m dish to reach the US satellites, forget that.
2. Puerto Rico uses the same satellite as the rest of Latin America but they get US based programming.
3. All it takes is for your region to be changed to P.R. in the Peru based DirecTV receiver settings. I have proof of this since the local sports bar in Lima shows P.R. The waitress let me use the remote while no one was paying attention
This setup has NBC/CBS/ABC/FOX/etc out of P.R.
4. I called P.R. and they told me they have several US citizens living ni Peru authorized for this setup, but they are embassy employees.
I provide that info just so instead of simply asking a question as a newbie here, I also provide some information other expats in L.A. might not already know.
Now, my question is, is my region only changeable by a DirecTV employee? I've toyed with the idea of calling them, telling them I'm an employee and seeing if they ask for some sort of proof. I quickly abandoned the idea with the possibility of getting in some trouble in my new home country. So I figured I'd just ask here and see what kind of responses I get. Should I give up this quest for US based TV here?
1. I'd need about a 30m dish to reach the US satellites, forget that.
2. Puerto Rico uses the same satellite as the rest of Latin America but they get US based programming.
3. All it takes is for your region to be changed to P.R. in the Peru based DirecTV receiver settings. I have proof of this since the local sports bar in Lima shows P.R. The waitress let me use the remote while no one was paying attention
This setup has NBC/CBS/ABC/FOX/etc out of P.R.4. I called P.R. and they told me they have several US citizens living ni Peru authorized for this setup, but they are embassy employees.
I provide that info just so instead of simply asking a question as a newbie here, I also provide some information other expats in L.A. might not already know.
Now, my question is, is my region only changeable by a DirecTV employee? I've toyed with the idea of calling them, telling them I'm an employee and seeing if they ask for some sort of proof. I quickly abandoned the idea with the possibility of getting in some trouble in my new home country. So I figured I'd just ask here and see what kind of responses I get. Should I give up this quest for US based TV here?
