Direct TV Service

Do you know what Direct TV is? How do you think that Direct TV is spread around the world? Direct TV is “a direct broadcast satellite service that delivers digital broadcasting” (The History of Direct TV, 2007, para.1). Direct TV is owned by Direct TV Group, which is controlled by Liberty Media. Direct TV broadcasts television shows, sports, movies, and music to households in the United States and Latin America. Direct TV offers the incredibly useful digital video recorder. Direct TV tried to increase more and more channels. Today, Direct TV offers us over 800 channels with high quality. While Direct TV has many advantages, it has some big problems which are not known by many people.

For Direct TV to take advantage of its benefit, it must address these problems; a complicated connection, high cost, and easy hacking.

First, Direct TV is very complicated to connect. There are many complicated operations because of high quality. It may be difficult to connect by yourself even though there is a manual for connecting. You may need a specialist for connecting. Also, the better the quality of the machines people have, the more complicated their systems are. When a previous television is broken, you might be able to fix it just through telephone customer service. It is not easy to fix Direct TV when it has problems, because of its being complicated.
Next, Direct TV is expensive for connecting and managing. In some cases, you may have to buy a specific TV and an antenna for Direct TV if you want to connect Direct TV. If you get all of the products for Direct TV, it will be expensive. In other cases, you may have to install Direct TV programs with money. You have to pay money every time when you install TV programs. Also, Direct TV is easy to consume or be broken because of high quality. You need money for fixing Direct TV. Direct TV will make us pay more money than we expect.

Finally, it is possible to hack TV programs easily and clearly. Some people do not want to pay a lot of money for Direct TV. However, they also want to see TV programs with high quality on Direct TV. Theses include the people who commit crimes like hacking. It may seem to be difficult to hack TV programs on Direct TV because of their high quality. Sad to say, the hacking system also becomes high quality with new technology. Also, the images will be clearer because of high quality if TV programs are installed illegally. That makes hackers install TV programs easily and clearly.

Supporters of Direct TV discuss the fact that it is a good solution because it gives us more choices of channels. However, this argument does not give more choices of varieties. One channel may have the specific genre of TV programs. The varieties will be limited. In fact, many channels broadcast the same programs again and again. It makes us bored. Also, it may be difficult to get new information or news.

It is very clear that Direct TV has some big problems. It is difficult to say that Direct TV is a completely good system. Direct TV should be considered about the solution to problems of the complicated connection, the high cost, and the easy hacking.

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