There are many benefits to having DirecTV over cable. DirecTV is affordable and is able to provide you with a much better quality service than cable can. One of the biggest issues with television, with cable and especially other satellite television providers, is the fact that there are so many shows on today that show drug use or have a lot of sexual content and profanity. With cable there was no way to be 100% sure that your children were viewing kid friendly material. In fact on many cable channel line ups there are adult channels just the next channel over from many children's channels. How the cable company set that television channel line up with out totally neglecting the fact that children could view it also if they

hit the up button is beyond me. So DirecTV kicks cables but in yet another way and that is that DirecTV supplies parents with parental control options so that you can even more easily monitor your children's television intake and what exactly they can watch.

DirecTV give the parents a big hand in helping to keep the filth out of their children's innocent minds. For some reason in this time of mankind it seems necessary for every show to have some kind of unnecessary profanity, drug use, nudity, sexual content, gore, violence, or some low morel bad influencing scene in it. Because of the fact that every channel on cable and many satellite providers seems to have such things included in them it can make allowing your children to watch television on a Saturday in the living room while you fold towels or work in the yard a scary thing. With such content on pretty much all the channels it can be a scary thought that you children might stumble upon inappropriate matter while changing the channel just one channel above their children's channel. DirecTV knows this so that is why they provide parents with parental controls. With the parental controls parents can set secure passwords that create a "kid friendly zone" that only you with the password can turn on or off. In the kid friendly zone mode you can rest assured that your children would not fall victim to the horrors on today's television

channels.

The kids friendly zone only allows select approved children's channels to be accessed. Your children will still be able to change the channel it will just go from say the Disney channel to PBS because only the kid safe channels will be accessible when the parental controls are turned on. When the kids go to bed and you feel like unwinding and watching some of your favorite shows just punch in your password and you once again have access to your full channel selection. So with DirecTV and its super great parental controls you parents out there can rest assured that when you have chores to do and your little kids want to watch their favorite shows, that the kids are safe and sound in their kid friendly zone watching good wholesome fun kid shows and it is all thanks to DirecTV and its parental controls. DirecTV helps parents with two thumbs up for its great parental control systems.