Of course just about everyone has heard of DirecTV's sports programming and their twenty-five premium sports channels along with the two fantastic sports channels that they have exclusive rights to but DirecTV is also well known for a few other things as well. To start with they are the home of the Total Choice series of programming packages and they are recognized as some of the most well balanced and intelligently compiled programming packages that you can find anywhere.

You see, not all TV programming service providers are the same and some of then like to cut corners with regards to their costs on the programming that they buy on the open market to send out to their customers. They may offer you loads of channels, but when you take a closer look you will find that they have chinced on the premium programming and filled in here and there with cheapo programming and hope that you won't notice.

All of the programming that DirecTV procures on the open market is the best that is available and this is one of the reasons that they are the leading satellite TV programming provider with well over twelve million members in their family of TV Viewers.

Their Family Choice programming package is their economical entry level package and it comes with forty great channels of TV programming. It comes with all the programming that a family needs to get started watching satellite TV programming, including all your local standard channels in digitized format. It contains Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, The Discovery Channel, MTV and ESPN just to name a few of the choices in it.

It also has one of the lowest overall costs per channel that you will find anywhere. The satellite TV receiver that you will get with this package with the free satellite system that they provide for you is called the Hughes Director and it's perfect for this package.

Their next package up is called Total Choice and it has one-hundred and fifty-five great channels of programming and with this package you will be using the Hughes Executive receiver with its larger channel capacity and functions such as custom menu feature that will help you to organize the greater amount of programming that you will have. Total Choice Plus gives you thirty more channels for a total of one-hundred and eighty-five channels and this will also require the Hughes Executive receiver.

The Total Choice Premier package is their super-sized programming package with two-hundred and fifty channels and this one comes with all of their premium sports channels. If you want to add on their high definition package you will be using one of two choices of Hughes high definition receivers.

There is one with DVR or DVR Powered by TiVo and one without and the Hughes executive receiver is also available with DVR and DVR Powered by TiVo. You also have the option of adding some of DirecTV's programming options to your package such as NFL Sunday Ticket and NCAA Mega March Madness and a variety of adult programming. Contact DirecTV online to learn about all the fantastic functions that come in Hughes receivers.