Direct-TV-deal

A deal for Direct TV, what might that involve? Well, most people love the idea of a deal. So, first things first: what’s Direct TV, and why would anyone want a deal for it? To start with, the TV is, of course, television. That’s been around for decades.

Going back to the infancy of the medium, the first televisions utilized antennas (affectionately called “rabbit ears”) to receive signals from the stations. But, they were prone to problems, the image and/or sound could degrade due to atmospheric conditions. Also, the transmissions grew weaker the further from the station a television was located. As a result, some people could not get any reception because of distance or geographic features (mountains, valleys) getting in the way.

Then, enter cable. It had the advantage of bringing a clear signal to its customers, not matter where they lived or what the weather conditions were. Of course, it cost money. So, not everyone was enthralled by it, to begin with. Eventually, as the number and variety of channels it offered increased, along with the premium stations: HBO, Showtime etc., it became the predominant method of television watching. But, with that domination of the market, there was a downside: cable no longer had any incentive to economize, to keep the monthly subscriber costs low.

And thus, enter Direct TV and some of its deals. First off, Direct TV will usually install their equipment: the satellite dish, the receivers (in several rooms) and the connecting cables for free. Then, they often give a variety of premium channels at a greatly reduced rate, or even for free for a certain introductory period. For sports fans, they have a large variety of sports channels, and a very special deal for football fans. There is their NFL Sunday Ticket. This deal gets the subscriber up to fourteen football games every Sunday, close to two hundred over the course of four months. For the true football junkie, it is the ultimate “fix.”

For the movie lovers, Direct TV has what they call PPV: Pay Per View. These channels offer recent movies, those that have just left the movie theatres for viewing at the press of a button, for a nominal fee. Hence the name: pay per view. People only pay for those films that they actually watch. So, signing up for Direct TV is quite the deal, and then – depending on the subscriber’s viewing tastes – they can select a wide variety of channels to satisfy their wants and needs.