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Let’s face it, Internet readers, most of us are guys. And as red-blooded American guys, we all have men’s desires, men’s needs. Don’t play coy. You know what I’m talking about. We want it faster, more creative, more imaginative, and not to put too fine a point on it, slimmer. We know we’ll have to pay for it eventually’we always do’but we’d rather not break the bank just for a little nighttime fun. There’s a wide variety out there to choose from, so point us in the right direction and we’ll happily engage in the hunt. But why do they make us work so hard to get it’ Sure, we’re tech-savvy geeks, even nerds, but does that mean everything has to be some huge intellectual puzzle’ Is there a way to make these people give up the goods with a bare minimum of confusion’ I’m talking, of course, about home consumer electronics, specifically satellite television systems.

Look, I’m sorry if I led you on, but I hope I’ve provided a more interesting introduction to the world of home satellite equipment than most industry vendors have. Take a look, for example’if you dare’at RapidSatellite.com, a one-stop Internet shopping point for satellite TV. A recent search turned up the following entries:

DIRECTV DVR80 3-Room 70 Hour DIRECTV DVR Satellite TV System w/ TiVo (1) DVR80 (2) D10 with Standard Dish, Multi-Switch & Standard Installation

DIRECTV DVR80 3-Room 70 Hour DIRECTV DVR Satellite TV System w/ TiVo (1) DVR80 (2) D10 with Triple LNB Dish & Standard Installation

DIRECTV 3-Room 70 Hour DIRECTV DVR System w/ TiVo (2) TiVo Receivers (1) Hughes Director Receiver with Standard Dish, Multi-Switch & Standard Installation

DIRECTV 3-Room System (1) HR10-250 200 Hour (STD) 35 Hour (HDTV) DIRECTV High Definition DVR w/ TiVo (2) DIRECTV Receiver System with Triple LNB Dish & Standard Installation

A little help here’ Those ads are about as welcoming as a brick wall, and they present us with more acronyms than the U.S. military. For pure reading pleasure, they rank somewhere between Finnegans Wake and the book of Leviticus. Am I buying satellite TV service, or naming robots for science fantasy sequels’

Relax, Luke Skywalker. Scanning through orbital space may not be like dusting crops, but we’ll work our way through this thing together. Let’s start with the first ad.

DIRECTV DVR80 3-Room 70 Hour DIRECTV DVR Satellite TV System w/ TiVo (1) DVR80 (2) D10 with Standard Dish, Multi-Switch & Standard Installation

Okay, first things first. DirecTV is a national satellite TV subscription service owned by Hughes Electronics and, in large part, Fox Entertainment. In order to watch DirecTV programming, one must first by a (more…)