Compare Dish Network and DirecTV

September 18, 2007 3:42 am admin Dish Network vs DirecTV

Dish Network and DirecTV are the top satellite TV companies in United States. As both companies offer their service based on the similar technology, we are not surprise to see that their offers are more or less the same. However if you study their deals detail enough, you should be able to notice the different between their offers and then select the deal that suits you the best.

Monthly subscription pricing

Both Dish Network and DirecTV programming package are more or less the same. Both offer more than 200 programming channels in their top level package; and both offer about 40 channels for their entry level package.

Nevertheless, these programming prices are not quite the same. Dish Network entry package – DishFamily charge $19.99 per month, while for DirecTV charge $29.99 per month. For the rest of the programming packages, the price differences are more or less the same – with DirecTV selling about $10 higher than Dish Network for similar package.

Standard Programming choices

When it comes to programming, both Dish Network and DirecTV offer excellent entertainment packages in high quality digital transmission.

Over 256 channels are available for Dish Network programming. Dish Network has advantage over DirecTV in term of International programming choices. For example, Dish Network offers 17 Chinese programming channels (via Great Wall TV Package); while DirecTV has only 9 Chinese channels. Also, up to 35 Latino language channels are offered by Dish Network!

DirecTV supports up to 225 channels. Compare with Dish Network, However, DirecTV has a few premium packages like NFL Sunday Ticket that Dish Network doesn’t have. Thus, it would be wise to advise someone to go for DirecTV if he or she is a football fans; and if you prefer to have more International programming, Dish Network seems like a better choice.

The cost of satellite equipment

In US market, most TV viewers are with the cable for years, to win the market over cables, both Dish Network and DirecTV give out their satellite equipment for free. This enables first time customer to pay nothing for the switch and made satellite TV the fastest growing house hold products.

So what’s the difference between Dish Network and DirecTV since both of them are giving out free equipments? If you study detail enough, you should notice that Dish Network’s equipments are granted with 18 months warranty; while DirecTV has only 1 year. Further more, DirecTV charge extra $4.99 per TV if you want to connect your system to extra TVs; while Dish Network cost zero. In other words, you get better bargains when subscribe to Dish Network when compare with DirecTV.

Winding up

Dish Network or DirecTV? The choice isn’t that hard when it’s told. The tricky part is that you should have learn more about both satellite TV provider’s offers before go for anyone of them.