Satellite Television With Parental Controls From DirecTV

            DirecTV offers, what is considered, some of the most lucrative deals in satellite television available on the global satellite television market today.  DirecTV offers a wide variety of programming packages that come in varying sizes of both channels and price tags.  However, no matter how big the channel package is, you can be sure that you are always getting a great value.  This is because, DirecTV offers so much for free just to begin with.  For instance, DirecTV offers a free start up, free satellite gear (from the necessities like the satellite dish to luxuries such as TiVo and DVR), as well as a free installation of the satellite gear.  With such a wide variety of programming packages to choose from you can be sure you will find the one that suits you best in both entertainment style and affordability.

            DirecTV is also well known for their awesome parental control features.  In the past, there have been very few options for protecting your children from running into gratuitous sexual or violent content when they are surfing through the channels.  Of course, when the parent is available to watch television over the child’s shoulder, it is easy for the parent to tell the child what he or she can or cannot watch.  However, in today’s society, as we all know, the ability of a parent to always be around when their child is watching television not only limited but actually seems ridiculous.  Most families today either have only one parent in the household or have two parents who both work full time jobs.  As everyone knows, children have a natural curiosity towards things that they know they should probably avoid.  This, of course, is not to say that all children have a tendency to do bad things, but instead to say that most children are very curious and that sometimes that curiosity can override their better judgment.  One problem to add to this is the fact that most children do not understand why they are not allowed to see certain things on television and that becomes even more obscured in their minds when they realize that their parents watch programs and movies that the child is not supposed to see.  All of these things point to a necessity for parental controls on television.  However, in the past there have been few functional offerings in this field.  For instance, although cable has the television rating system (such as TV-14 and TV-Ma) to indicate what shows children should avoid, studies have shown that this system is counterproductive by simply indicating to children what shows have the content that they are curious about seeing.  DirecTV has a solution to most of these problems however.  DirecTV’s parental controls feature allows you, the television viewing parent, to actually block out channels either at certain times of the day or entirely.  This way your children will be unable to even access channels that are known for content and if new threats arise you can add new channels to block at any time.  These settings can be changed with your remote control but can only be accessed by your personal password.  This way, you don’t have to worry about your technologically adept children getting into your settings and changing them while you are away from the house.