DIRECTV or DTV was launched by AT&T, a multinational conglomerate company on 17th of June, 1994. It is a direct-to-home (DTH) service based in California that telecasts television programs on your television by using satellite transmission.

DTV offers access to the following:

• Local television channels
• International television channels
• Videos on demand
• Channels of your choice

DIRECTV offers several choices of television channels to its users. Subscribers use a small reception antenna.

Receiving equipment of DTV includes the following:

• A Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS)
• A receiver or set-top box
• Dish network accessible smart card

DIRECTV packages

DIRECTV has proven itself to be the best service provider in the past few years.

It has been rated no.1 in terms of customer satisfaction. Consumers have to pay a certain fee every month for subscription of any DIRECTV packages. All the DIRECTV packages include HD and DVR channels at no extra cost. You have to pay a supplementary charge every month only if you have subscribed to any extra channel or any special package.

Any extra channel or package subscription lasts for a period of one month. So in order to renew the subscription, you need to pay an extra cent.

A supplementary fee is paid only for the continuation of a subscribed plan, additional receivers or new list of channels. If you are a DIRECTV user, you can also order movies or television programmes of your choice. These subscriptions depend upon the amount you pay. It may be for a month, a week or even a day. A user decides how long he wants to continue his subscription.

DIRECTV provides a series of regional channels like CBS TV Networks, NBC Channel, ABC Channel, PBC, Fox, ION Television, The CW, AZTECA, UNIVISION, TELEMUNDO etc.

There are 6 different genres of DIRECTV packages. These include:

Select

This is a 12 months package, in which you have to pay $35 per month and you can select 150+ channels of your choice.

Entertainment

This is a 12 months package, in which you get 155+ entertainment channels at $40 per month approximately.

Xtra

This is a 12 months package with extra-regional channels and sports channels of your own choice. For this, you have to pay around $55 per month.

Choice

This offers you a package of 185+ channels at a cost of $45 per month for 12 months approximately.

Ultimate

It costs around $60 per month for 12 months, offering you 245+ channels, including regional and sports channels of your choice.

Premier

It offers 345+ channels, including movie and entertainment channels of your choice, at a cost of $110 per month.

The subscription of 12 months is the minimum criterion offered by DTV. It can be extended to 24 months or even more.

International TV packages

When serving customers, DTV is the best. It doesn’t neglect its foreign customers. So if you are in the United States and wish to see some Russian or Korean channels, DTV is the right option for you. It offers programs in English, Brazilian, Korean, Chinese, South Asian, Russian, and many other languages.

La Carte package

It offers a wide range of TV programs. Whether it is international sports, movies or news, this package brings it to your television box.

Spanish package

The Spanish package offers television programmes in the Spanish language.

Entertainment from Brazil

Brazilian Direct offers you entertainment from Brazil. This package consists of channels in Brazilian language.

Entertainment from China

This package offers outstanding entertainment channels from the streets of China.

Entertainment from the Philippines

This is a unique package, rarely found. It offers you channels from the Philippines at your home. So if you are a Filipino, you can take advantage of this package.

Entertainment from Korea

This is a golf package that offers you a set of Korean channels. This means, entertainment directly from the land of Korea to your television.

Entertainment from Russia

This package offers you a wide range of Russian channels to choose from, among its three different DIRECTV packages.

Vietnamese Entertainment

Viet Direct Plus offers channels of Vietnam

DIRECTV Xtra package

If you have chosen a package of your choice and are still not satisfied, this may help you. In case the package of your choice excludes one or two channels, do not worry. Just opt for the Xtra Package. At a price of around $60/month, you get to see more than 230 channels. Not only this, it includes:

• Channels telecasting National Football League at no cost
• Free-of-cost live programme recording system
• Local channels at no cost
• Complimentary installation of set-top box
• Movie channels at no cost
• Commercial free music channels
• High-definition channels for free

Benefits of DIRECTV

• One DIRECTV antenna telecasts programmes in four set-top boxes in the same house.
• Pay only one-time installation cost and get installation in up to four TVs in the same house.
• The installation cost is $50 approximately.
• There is no hidden cost or additional charge that you have to pay as a DTV user.
• If you are not satisfied with the channels, you can add any extra channel you want by paying an extra cent through DIRECTV app.