Newfound Accessibility with Satellite TV Listings

In the past when you wanted to find out what shows or movies would be on tonight, you would have to turn to the newspaper or pick up a TV Guide sold at many gas stations and grocery stores to find out what was playing on TV. Years ago, they developed the TV Guide channel (and some other lookalikes), that would scroll down and give information about current shows and programs that would play in the next hour or so. However in the digital age and with the advent of satellite TV services, you can now receive interactive satellite TV listings that you can navigate yourself to find out what's playing even days in advance, bringing previously unheard of accessibility to watching TV.

Similarities

If you've ever seen the TV Guide channel, then satellite TV listings will look pretty familiar to you. There will be a grid of program listings, but the difference is that satellite TV listings don't scroll down automatically. Instead, you get to navigate up and down through channels and forwards and backwards in time, so you can often see what is going to be playing up to a week or so from the day that you check satellite TV listings, allowing you to schedule your DVR (digital video recorder) well in advance. Another great feature of satellite TV listings is that while in the guide, you can select a channel and begin watching it immediately instead of manually inputting the three numbers to go to the channel.

Satellite TV listings are a huge technological upgrade over their predecessors, allowing users to access television schedules as they've never been able to before. Included for free with even the most basic satellite TV packages, you won't have a pay a cent more to get these listings. Not only that, but satellite TV listings will also display which channels you receive as part of your package. You can have the schedule filter out the channels you don't have, or you can choose to color code the various programs.

Sports might be a green color, while news could be blue, and movies red, and so on and so forth, while channels you are not subscribed to might be gray to let you know that you can't receive them without ordering them from your satellite TV provider. Also, this guide also allows you to see current pay-per-view and on demand programs that would otherwise require another menu to access, so all of your available programs are lined up in one easy to use menu. For easy and fast accessibility of your TV programming guide, turn to satellite TV listings.