Looking At the Value of Direct TV

            DirecTV’s satellite television service boasts some of the greatest value available for television globally.  DirecTV’s service offers such great deals as free start up, a free home installation, and free satellite equipment.  This free equipment includes such necessities as the satellite dish and a Hughes brand satellite receiver. The free equipment also includes such luxuries as a TiVo unit and DVR.  DirecTV also offers programming packages that start at monthly rates comparable to what you are paying now with cable.

            Since the TiVo and DVR units you get, when you sign up with DirecTV, temporarily record just about everything as it airs, other possibilities also open up.  For one, unlike a VCR where you have to scramble to set the timer to record your favorite program and hope you set it to p.m., with the DVR and TiVo you can actually just find the program that is stored temporarily, hours later, and save that recorded program. Viola, your program is saved and ready to watch over and over whenever you want.  If you don’t want to waste space on your DVR with a program you will never watch again, you don’t have to.  Instead of saving the already temporarily recorded program just rewind television and watch it then and there.  Or if you are going to watch it later, just save the program, watch it later, and delete it, simple as that.  When you simply compare the space a DVR takes up vs. a VCR you will see one major advantage.  Most specifically referring to the VHS tapes used to record programs with a VCR.  Those VHS tapes fill up bookshelves and boxes incredibly fast with their large cumbersome size and pretty ugly look.  The DVR however, takes up no additional space than the unit itself as the unit requires no tapes but records all on a digital hard drive.  Guess it is time to say goodbye to the old fashioned and almost totally obsolete VCR, and say hello to TiVo and the DVR from DirecTV!

            DirecTV is also known for their parental controls and fantastic customer service.  The graphic content found on many television channels has become a growing problem for television viewing families with young children world wide.  It has become increasingly difficult for parents to see all of the programs that their children watch while they are watching them.  DirecTV has taken this carefully into consideration while designing their parental controls feature.  With parental controls from DirecTV, the parent will be able to find and block the channels that are known for the graphic content.  If a channel only shows graphic material late at night, the parent can set the parental controls to simply block the channel during those times of the day.  This way, any programs of merit that are shown during the daytime will not be missed.  DirecTV’s parental controls feature is also password protected.  With the password protection, you will not have to worry about your child changing the parental control settings when you are not around and changing them back before you get home.