Programming packages from different service providers all vary and this is because each service provider puts their own spin on what they think that the majority of their customers are going to want to select from. Each service provider also has programming that they specialize in and Dish Network happens to focus on movie programming as their specialty.

This doesn't mean the Dish Network only focuses on premium move programming which it does, but it does mean that Dish Network has the widest variety of movie programming available in its service packages. Starz Superpak, HBO, The Western Movie Channel, Independent Film Channel, Turner Classics, The American Movie Channel, Showtime Unlimited and the list just goes on and on.

This doesn't mean that Dish Network is limited in the quantity of sports programming that they carry because with the two-hundred and eighty-one channels that they carry there is plenty of room for everything. They are also the all time leader in high definition programming with thirty one channels and this is because the visionaries at Dish Network foresaw the exploding popularity in high definition programming when it first became available and invested heavily in the technology that it required to provide it in large quantities, while all their competes were playing a wait and see game.

This gives Dish Network a strategic lead in high definition programming that they are going to keep for many years into the future, as they are busy even today implementing the technological infrastructure that is required to add even more high definition channels to its repertoire.

Dish Networks smallest package is the forty channel Dish Family pack and it was designed with families in mind. Dish Network doesn't refer to it as a budget package because it's no, even though it has one of the lowest process available anywhere. It's for someone who just doesn't need or want hundreds of channels because all they want is some great children's programming for their kids and some news, information, movie and entertainment programming for everyone else. This package contains all of that including all of your local standard TV channels in digital format.

Up one step from that is their Americas Top 100 package and it contains one-hundred channels of great programming to select from. With this package you get some more of their movie programming but you will be slightly limited, because it doesn't contain all of their premium movie channels. The Americas Top 100-Plus package adds on another thirty popular and highly requested channels, but doesn't have a big jump in price because it only adds thirty more channels.

The Americas Top 200 package is a big jump in numbers and it adds on programming such as Fox News, Animal Planet, Bravo and The Speed Channel just to name a few of the additions to this package. Their Americas Top 250 package includes virtually every channel of programming that they carry and this means that you get the most movie programming channels that you can get anywhere else and from any other service provider in the universe. If you add on their thirty-one channels of high definition programming on top of this it will bring your total number of channels up to almost three-hundred channels and that's a lot of programming to watch.