Only DirecTV has sports programming channels that you can�t find with any other service provider. This is because DirecTV has exclusive broadcasting rights to these channels, which makes them their own to feature for their family of viewers. These sports channels are featured above and beyond the other twenty-five premium sports channels that DirecTV carries and they have to be added on to your Total Choice programming package to receive them.

This gives viewers the option of receiving premium sports programming and still staying on a tight budget, because they can be added to even their smaller economically priced Total Choice programming packages. All other programming service providers require that you subscribe to one of their larger programming packages to begin 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 they both specialize in sports programming from their respective sports organizations exclusively. NFL Sunday Ticket does feature some of the best in football action that the European Football league has to offer though.

It also has virtually all of the special events that the NFL put on during the season such as their celebrity and charity events along with their special contests. Along with all of this you also get great top rated game reviews and commentary from all of the most influential experts on the game that the NFL has access to. There is also more one on one interviews with all of the most leading players in the game of pro football then you will find with any other service providers sports programming.

NFL Sunday Ticket is a great channel for someone who doesn�t want to miss out on 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 that each new subscriber receives along with the rest of the free satellite TV system that they get.

If you are unfamiliar with TiVo, it's the function that allows you to do your own instant slow motion replays, along with he ability to skip right past commercials that come on during your games. TiVo also allows you the ability to stop any program on your TV and then restart it right where it left off when you return to the TV. The Hughes receivers that DirecTV carries are all loaded with great features that making watching any kind of programming so much more easy and fun.

The programming search function allows you to find any program that DirecTV has scheduled, by simply entering it into the function by name or even by the name of an actor in the program or movie. Just give the button on the remote a click and the program will instantly pop onto the screen with the date and time it is playing.

Simply give the recording button on the TV remote a click and it is set to be recorded when it comes on. If the game is rescheduled before it gets recorded, that's no problem, because the computer in the DVR reschedules right along with it and it will still be recorded.

Written by David Johnson. Find more information on dish network hdtv as well as free directv dvr