In this day an age, we are constantly being bombarded with choices and if a person isn't careful it can become overwhelming. Choice in TV programming in the past was such an easy decision to make, because all that was needed was a good TV and antennae. You just plugged it in and switched the channels around, until you hopefully found something that was acceptable.

Cable service finally came along and it was a welcome change for a number of reasons and one of them was that it went on for twenty-four hours a day. Cable service providers were notorious for filling in a large part of their channel choices with inexpensive programming that they were able to buy on the open market and this is why when you searched through all their channels you found great programming like music shows featuring Scottish bag pipe playing and how-to instructional programs on constructing your own Raggedy Ann dolls.

Cable service programmers had locked in programming areas, with captive customers in them and absolutely no competition and this was the reason that they had no incentive to provide really great programming, like the two leading satellite TV programming service providers now do. While cable service providers are still out trying to procure the cheapest programming for their customers, DirecTV and Dish Network are always on the look out for the best programming that can be had for their families of viewers.

DirecTV is the all time unchallenged leader in sports programming with a whopping twenty-five channels of a wide variety of sports programming for its viewers to select from. They also have some sports programming that they have exclusive rights to, that you can add onto your sports programming ensemble if you wish to.

These are NFL Sunday Ticket and NCAA Mega March Madness and they are both full of great sports events and information that you just can't get from any other service provider anywhere.

DirecTV is the all time leader in movie programming, with more movie choices on a wider variety of topics than any other service provider has to offer anywhere. Showtime Unlimited, Starz Superpak, HBO, Cinimax and Turner Classics are just a smidgen of the great movie programming that they have to offer their lucky viewers. They are also the unchallenged leader in high definition programming, with a full thirty-one channels of high definition for you to select from. Western classics, science fiction and comedy are also there in manwitch sized portions in Dish network programming packages.

Dish Network also has the best pay per view movie options that bring literally hundreds of great movie choices to you to watch and record each and every month of the year. Both of these giants of the TV programming industry also have generous promotional offers that give away free satellite TV systems, digital cameras and generous cash rebates among so many other things. So with all that is available from either of these two leading satellite TV service providers, why would anyone go anywhere else for their TV programming.