One thing that you will find as you shop around for a satellite TV service provider, is that just about all of them will give you a free satellite TV system when you sign an extended programming service agreement with them. They do this for a number of reasons, but one big reason that they are able to do this and stay in business is because the cost of home electronics components in general has fallen dramatically in the last decade.



The service providers also acquire the systems that they give away in very large quantities and that also helps to keep the price that they pay for them down. Don't get too excited though, because there are some things that you should consider before you allow the first satellite TV service provider that you contact to rush over and install their wonderful free satellite TV system in your home or business.

The quality of the system should be taken into consideration, because once you accept it, it is yours to fix or replace if it begins to malfunction. They will all come with some kind of warranty, but it is only for a year or so and if your receiver has a lot of functions then, it has a lot of things that can begin to stop working in two or three years.

If you aren't careful, you could be stuck buying a whole new system when you thought you had a free system that was going to last forever. There are manufacturers overseas that can slap together home electronics components at amazingly low prices, but they tend to be of very low quality even if they do look good on the outside and some TV service providers have succumbed to temptation by stocking up on these cheap low quality units to unload on their hapless customers, who don't know how to tell the difference between a high and low quality system.

At DirecTV you can always rest assured that the satellite system that you receive from them is of the highest quality available, because they stock Hughes Electronics satellite TV systems exclusively. The Hughes name is synonymous with quality and reliability and is recognized world wide as a top name in satellite TV components.

DirecTV has to pay more for Hughes equipment, but that is how the world works especially when it comes to home electronics components and this is why DirecTV doesn't give away their high definition receivers free of any charge like their competitors do. High definition receivers are substantially more costly then standard definition receivers, because high definition programming is very data intensive broadcasting format.

If a service provider is going to give you a high definition receiver free of charge, then you can bet your favorite yo-yo that it a cheap sub standard unit and you shouldn't bet the whole farm that it is going to last for a very long time.

DirecTV requires a nominal fee to offset the difference in cost between a standard and high definition Hughes receiver, because it is not by any means a cheap unit. Some of the higher technology that goes into Hughes high definition receivers is patented and is more expensive to include in them, but DirecTV and Hughes Electronics are working together to implement new technology into the manufacturing process, that should bring down the cost of Hughes high definition receivers in the near future. If the highest quality in a satellite TV system is what you would prefer, then look to DirecTV and Hughes Electronics.