If you are waiting for your extended cable programming contract to expire before you move up to satellite TV programming service, then you may be too late to take advantage of the great promotional offer that DirecTV now has waiting for you. One item that might interest you that is a part of this deal is a brand new digital camera that each new viewing family member receives, when the finally decide on one of DirecTV's well blended Total Choice programming packages.

This alone may very well make it all worth it to you to jump ship early, but there is still more that they have for you. When you move up to the higher quality and quantity of programming with DirecTV, the true sports leader, they will give you a free complete Hughes satellite TV system. It also comes with free installation, that is done by DirecTV's own in house team of installation experts and they will also give you free installation in up to four rooms in your home or place of business.

This isn't just any off-brand satellite system, it's a top of the line Hughes system and it also comes with a sleek low profile attractive Hughes satellite TV receiver to put on top of your TV set. Hughes receivers are stacked full of easy to understand and use, common sense functions that you will use every time you click on your TV set.

The Hughes Executive DVR receiver holds a full one-hundred hours of recorded footage in its memory and that is over four solid days of recording that it can hold. Other useful functions that Hughes receivers come with are instant replay in slow motion, the ability to zip right past TV commercials and get right back to your game in mere seconds and the ability to stop any program and restart it right where you stopped it when you return from the fridge or the bathroom.

For sports fans these three functions are a must and they make watching sports events on DirecTV far more enjoyable. The programming search function works great with the digital video recorder, because you can find any program you are interested in by entering it into the function by name and then give the button a click. It will pop right up on your TV screen instantly with the date and time it is playing along with some relevant information on the program. Click the recording button and it is set to record when it comes on and it is just that simple.

If the program is rescheduled that is no problem, because the DVR will also automatically reschedule also and follow right along and record it anyway. You can even program your state of the art Hughes receiver to record a series of programs in a season and it will do them all. If you are waiting for your extended programming service agreement with your cable company to run out before you move up to satellite, then you are missing out on DirecTV.