Thanks to the competition from DIRECTV and cable TV, DISH Network is offering special rates on their service to get you to sign up with them. But what do you get? Here's an overview of the program packages and the equipment they offer.
DISH Network Programming Promotions
DISH Network currently offers a number of program promotions with program prices starting at $19.99 a month. Here's an overview of their current offerings.
The Family Pak is their entry level programming package. It costs a mere $19.99 a month for 40 family-oriented program channels like Nickelodeon, The Hallmark Channel, Discovery Kids, and Animal Planet. If you have a family and are on a budget, this is the perfect package to get you started watching satellite TV.
The America's Top 100 Pak is DISH Network's most popular package. It's currently $29.99 a month for 100 channels, and includes a variety of programming including movie channels, nature channels, news and weather channels, sports channels, Sirius satellite radio channels, plus HBO and Cinemax for three months.
DISH Network's Top 200 package and Top 250 packages are their mid-size packages with 230 and 250 channels respectively. These packages offer more than enough variety for the average viewer. Prices are $42.99 for the Top 200, and $52.99 for the Top 250 package. Programming includes movie channels, nature channels, news and weather channels, sports channels, Sirius satellite radio channels, plus HBO and Cinemax for three months.
Films are seen in large, silent, darkened theaters, where intense light beams are projected from behind toward luminous surfaces in front. There is an enforced and anonymous collectivity of the audience because, for any screening, all viewers are physically present at the same time in the relatively enclosed space of the theater. In contrast to this cocoon-like, enveloping situation is the fragmentary, dispersed, and varied nature of television reception. The darkness is dissolved, the anonymity removed.... While the aura of cinema spectatorship produces hypnotic fascination, the atmosphere of television enables just the opposite—because the lights are more likely to be on, one can get up and return, do several things at once, watch casually, talk to other people, or even decide to turn the television off.
—Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, U. S. educator, critic. “Psychoanalysis, Film, and Television,” Channels of Discourse: Television and Contemporary Criticism, ed. Robert C. Allen, University of North Carolina Press (1987)
Their top-of-the-line package is the America's Everything Pak. With more than 350 program channels this package has the most channels of the two satellite TV providers, including 31 movie channels from HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, and Starz. If you're serious about your TV viewing, this package has everything under the sun.
DISH Network Equipment Promotions
When you order a DISH Network program package you get the following equipment installed in you home free of charge:
1. A 4-room satellite TV system with DVR (digital video recorder)
2. An all-weather satellite TV dish
3. An HD (high definition) receiver
As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. The universe is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
Bottom Line
If your looking for variety and value, DISH Network has the biggest variety of programs for the least amount of money of the two satellite TV providers, and way more bang for your buck than cable TV. If you're in the market for satellite TV, click on the link below and see what programs they have to offer.
Visit http://www.thesatellitetvguide.com/free-dish-network.htm or click on the following link for more information on DISH Network promotions plus where to get the best deal on their satellite TV service. You can also see their latest special offers and order their satellite TV service online.
The author, Brian Stevens, is the senior editor for TheSatelliteTVGuide.com and has written a number of articles on DISH Network promotions.