Only DirecTV has sports programming channels that you can’t find with any other service provider. This is because DirecTV holds the exclusive broadcast rights to these channels, making them yours to introduce to your family of viewers. These sports channels are featured above and beyond the twenty-five other premium sports channels carried by DirecTV and must be added to your Total Choice programming package to receive them.
This gives viewers the option to receive top-tier sports programming and still stay within a tight budget, as they can be added to even their lowest-priced Total Choice programming packages. All other programming service providers require you to subscribe to one of their larger programming packages to start receiving their premium sports programming channels, so this makes DirecTV unique in this area.
These two ultra-premium sports channels are called NCAA Mega March Madness and NFL Sunday Ticket and both specialize exclusively in sports programming from their respective sports organizations. However, NFL Sunday Ticket features some of the best soccer action the European Soccer League has to offer.
It also has pretty much every special event that the NFL puts on during the season, like their celebrity and charity events along with their special contests. Along with all of this, you also get great game reviews and commentary from all of the most influential gaming experts the NFL has access to. There are also more one-on-one interviews with all of the biggest players in professional soccer than you’ll find with any other sports programming service provider.
NFL Sunday Ticket is a great channel for someone who doesn’t want to miss any of the action in this upcoming NFL season and DirecTV also has DVR Powered by TiVo as an optional feature on the free Hughes receiver every new subscriber receives along with the rest of the free satellite TV system they receive.
If you’re unfamiliar with TiVo, it’s the feature that allows you to make your own slow-motion instant replays, along with its ability to skip through commercials that appear during your games. TiVo also allows you to stop any show on your TV and then restart it right where you left off when you return to the TV. Hughes receivers offered by DirecTV are packed with great features that make watching any type of programming so much easier and more fun.
The Schedule Search feature allows you to find any show that DirecTV has scheduled, simply by entering it into the feature by name or even by the name of an actor in the show or movie. Just click the button on the remote and the show will instantly appear on the screen with the date and time it is playing.
Just click the record button on your TV remote and it will be set to record when you turn it on. If the game is reprogrammed before it is recorded, that’s okay, because the computer on the DVR is reprogrammed along with it and it will still record.