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Originally Posted by SAR I

DirecTV's receivers are not smart and don't know where they are located. The programming you receive is based on your billing zip code. So if you give them a billing address (a friend or family member in NYC metro), tell them to charge the programming to a credit card, tell them to supress all mail and phone calls, you can fool DirecTV into giving you New York programming as if you lived in Manhattan or Long Island. You call them up, tell them you've moved, give them the new address, done.

And besides getting all Jets games in HD as anyone in NYC would, you also get SNY and YES and MSG for all the Yankees, Mets, Knicks, Rangers, Devils, Islanders, and Jets postgame shows at no extra charge (with the sports package) so no need for Sunday Ticket, Center Ice or any of those others if you like the other NY local sports teams.

SAR I

I have considered doing this many times, but I really want my local LA channels. If the Knicks ever get good again, it might entice me into pulling the trigger.