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The Direct TV Channel List provides a massive selection of great programming!
There is a show for every viewers personal interest, like premium movie channels, the most high definition channels available, diverse international programming and the most sports channels available anywhere! There's great comedy programing like Comedy Central to keep you laughing.
With Direct TV, you will find movie channels like HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, Starz and many others. There's an exceptional variety of children friendly programing including BabyFirstTV, Disney and the Cartoon Network!
I have personally found that the Direct TV channel listings offer more channels then any other television provider! Cable and even Dish Network have a difficult time measuring up to Direct TV.
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Direct TV High definition technology offers the best picture quality in the world for your Direct TV channel list! With most high definition channels there's also a corresponding Standard definition channel.
There is one exception to a corresponding standard definition channel in the list and that's the "HD Extra Pack". The Direct TV HD Extra Pack provides 100 percent HD programing. The only programs shown are in high Definition. There are no standard definition programs shown on the HD Extra Pack and it's available for an extra monthly charge.
Be aware that there are different equipment requirements for SD (standard definition) and HD (high definition) programing for use with the Direct TV channel list. There is a move to use high definition equipment exclusively to deliver your Direct TV channel list programming. When you place your order, be sure to ask what types of Receivers you are getting.
Direct TV is moving to the exclusive use of high definition receivers for use with the Direct TV channel list. Mpeg-4 compression saves bandwidth space on the satellite which provides you with more channels to watch!
Basically, mpeg-4 compression allows Direct TV to offer more channels in your Direct TV channel list, like local channels! You won't notice any difference in picture quality, but you will have more channels available for viewing in your Direct TV channel list which is a big plus!
The older compression used by the Direct TV channel list is called Mpeg-2 compression. This compression uses more digital bits, which takes up more room, thus less channels available in the Direct TV channel list! Mpeg-4 compression provides the same picture quality as mpeg-2, but in less space. Cable companies get digital signals from a satellite dish and convert the signal to analog quality. Analog signals take up less place and then fit on the coax cable after conversion.
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Cable companies have to "super compress" the data to fit in the small coax cable wire. Remember, cable television started before satellite television was available! The information is then sent through miles and miles of coax cable wire which often degrades the signal before it reaches your home. You then get this degraded signal to your home (sometimes at a much lower quality), which translates in to lower picture quality!
Many cable companies buried the cables in the ground thirty years ago. It would cost them lots of money to dig up and replace the cables. Cable television providers would have to dig up the main streets, side streets and back yards of basically your whole town! When you get cable television, you are getting an old, 1970's technology. Sure! You could get digital cable which is better then the older analog cable, but you still don't get 100 percent digital like you do when you have satellite and a clear digital signal to fill out your Direct TV channel list.
Cable television is an antique and antiquated technology in my opinion and the cable industry has to brainwash you and entertain you with some form of extravagant tap dancing to sell this inferior technology! They know it's not up to par with satellite TV, but pray you don't self-educate yourself on the facts by reading and investigating on your own. If satellite isn't available to you because of line-of-sight issues or your landlord won't allow satellite to be installed, then cable's certainly better then the over the air television options.
In most cases when you're told it's "Digital Cable", you are not told that most of the channels are analog and that only a handful are actually digital! All channels provided in the Direct TV channel list are 100 percent digital and always have been. This gives you a crystal clear picture every time! The Direct TV channel list provides superior content and a digital picture directly from space and bypasses the whole degraded signal problem.
Some temporary channels in the Direct TV channel list are used for emergency purposes. Here's a few reasons why your Direct TV channel list is this way.
The Direct TV channel list also shows Video on Demand which allows you to download movies to a Direct TV HD DVR (high definition digital video recorder).
To use Video on Demand with the Direct TV channel list, one has to have high speed internet, a home network and lots of bandwidth! Even a seven mbps internet connection means waiting for the content to buffer sufficiently before being able to view high definition shows in the Direct TV channel list.
It's best to let the program download while you are doing something else. I also found there's much less content available as compared to a streaming Netflix subscription. I find the HD picture quality much better on satellite and there's more to watch on your Direct TV channel list!
Netflix is a great compliment to the Direct TV channel listings. I really can't say enough good things about the Netflix service and recommend it to everybody!
This list is only provided as an example. Perform a Google search in the box provided below for "Direct TV Channel Listings in English" to get an up to date list of channels.
