Night at the Museum Movies On DirecTV

Over the Memorial Day weekend, “Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian” took the box office by storm, beating out the much anticipated premier of Terminator: Salvation. Now, because of a new deal with FX, the Night at the Museum movies will be available to DirecTV viewers right in their own living room. The FX Network purchased exclusive television broadcasting rights for the films from 20th Century Fox.

The first movie in the series has already been aired, to good ratings, directly prior to the sequels big Memorial Day theater release. The sequel, also starring Ben Stiller, is set to be shown on the Network in November of 2011.

The movie represents the most successful opening weekend for any of Ben Stiller’s live-action movies to date, earning about the same initial crowd response as “Madagascar”, the 2005 animated movie that he lent his voice to. The fact that the second “Night at the Museum” did better at the theaters than “Salvation”, the fourth installment of the “Terminator” series, came as a surprise to many – including 20th Century Fox, the maker and distributor of the comparatively high grossing film. It isn’t often that a sequel brings in nearly twice the amount of opening weekend ticket purchases that the original film.

20th Century’s broadcasting right deal with FX states that the Network will pay 12% of the movie’s domestic box office. As of now, the sequel has earned around $200 million in ticket sales, which could mean FX paying up to $24 million for the rights to the movie when it’s all said and done.

In addition to “Museum 2″, FX has also signed deals entitling them to the television broadcast rights for other feature films including “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”, “Monsters vs. Aliens”, “Star Trek”, and the yet to be released “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”, which is another good reason to go with DirecTV as your satellite television provider.

Swing Into Spring With DirecTV’s Tennis Channel

Get ready to watch all of your favorite tennis players and tournaments in sharp, vibrant high definition broadcasting. The Tennis Channel has offered subscribers 24 hour, unbeatable tennis coverage and programming since 2003. You can expect to find high quality coverage of live tournaments, up to the minute news, interviews, and even tennis tip and skill instruction.

The tennis channel doesn’t stop with tennis matches, you’ll also find some programming related to sports such as squash, badminton, racquetball, table tennis and paddle tennis. If you like to watch the tournaments you’ll love the Tennis Channel’s extensive coverage of Wimbledon, the French Open, the Australian Open, the Tennis Channel Open, Davis Cup, Fed Cup and Hopman Cup along with many other events. New to the Tennis Channel this year is coverage of the much anticipated US Open.

In addition to all the high definition games you can catch on the Tennis Channel, you won’t want to miss out on some the popular original series’. Shows like Destination Tennis, Match Makers, Book of Tennis Chronicles, and Real Life on the WTA add interesting and educational programming options to the mix.

If you find yourself missing tennis games because your cable doesn’t have the coverage you want, you’ll definitely want to check out the Tennis Channel. For a great price, you will get 24 hour access to programming that any avid tennis fan would wish for along with the peace of mind that comes from dealing with DirecTV, America’s favorite for satellite programming and award-winning customer service representatives. Plus, with even the most basic DirecTV package you will be provided with many different channels of programming that will make every member of your family satisfied. Check out directstartv.com today to see more of what you’ve been missing and stop the cycle!

TV Does Color (Part 2)

In the first part of this article, we discussed the early beginnings and efforts of a few companies like RCA and CBS to establish a color standard to be broadcast on TVs in living rooms across the country.

After failed efforts at rudimentary coloring of black and white broadcasts, the public continued to buy black and white TVs. There wasn’t a lot of public interest in color television shows, at least not enough for RCA to continue their ongoing feud with the FCC to come to some agreement or ruling on color for TV standards. And during this time, RCA’s rival, CBS kept stumbling in their efforts to broadcast an effective and satisfying color system to the masses.

Flash forward a few years later to post-war 1946. RCA has finally developed and presented a type of color receiver that was compatible with existing standards, and was comprised of three separate picture tubes for each primary color (cyan, magenta and yellow). Lacking all the technology we have today regarding blur correction, the picture of this system seemed to suffer during video movement. This left many at a loss, despite the presence of bright colors finally.

Seven years later, the FCC finally came to implement a standard for broadcasting color TV. Both RCA and CBS did their best respectively to woo the FCC into choosing their systems, but the FCC surprised many and went with RCA. It was also a surprise when, in 1950, the FCC reversed their prior decision and decided to adopt CBS’s color standard. Lawsuits ensue and RCA loses, leaving CBS time to being producing millions color TV sets.

Strangely enough, the extension of the Korean War led CBS to stop producing color television shows and TVs alike. RCA got the help of the National Television Standards Committee (NTSC) to believe in their proprietary color standards. This led the FCC to reverse their decision again, siding with RCA’s system compatibility.

On January 1st, 1954, the Tournament of Roses Parade was the first country-wide full color broadcast, brought to you on television sets made by such manufacturers as General Electric, Philco, and of course, RCA. Color blossomed on the TV sets of everyone across the land, and the rest, as they say, is history.

To see all of your shows and movies in the brilliant color capable by today’s technology, check out DirecTV! They provide the most channels in high definition so that you can get the best performance possible (and your money’s worth) from your modern television.

TV Does Color – A History Lesson

With all the talk these days about HDTV, flat screen TVs, satellite TV, video games and a myriad of other television related topics, its easy to forget the humble days of black and white television. With this article, I’d like to briefly explain how we got to this world of beautifully vivid color that is today’s modern TV.

Black and white television had not been around for very long before color TV came to be, but not before many failed attempts in the early 40s by a few overseas companies and some corporations like RCA. RCA developed a technique that involved broadcasting the television images separated into the three primary colors, cyan, magenta and yellow, through spinning filters transposed upon the original black and white image, rendering a colored but not truly color, video.

At the same time, rival company CBS had been developing it’s own color system, similar although completely incompatible with RCA’s current color standards. Basically this meant that if one wanting to view a black and white TV show on any other network broadcast, and then a color show on CBS, two completely different television sets would have to be owned. After this issue, the two companies battled it out over channel space, ultra-high frequency (UHF), and a few other technological issues that heavily involved the oversight of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). These events led to a stalling of CBS’s efforts while RCA continued to profit off the sale of thousands of black and white TV sets.

Next time, we’ll discuss the other stumbling blocks tossed in the way of getting color broadcast into our homes, and what technological and legal hurdles had to be traversed to create the world of color we all now enjoy in our movies, satellite TV shows, video games, and other media.

To see all of your shows and movies in the brilliant color capable by today’s technology, check out DirecTV!  They provide the most channels in high definition so that you can get the best performance possible (and your money’s worth) from your modern television.

Will DirecTV Save Show For Fans?

It appears that a program named Moonlight that airs on CBS has met with the chopping block and the fans are fighting back by asking in a big way that Direct TV pick it up.

The program while it might not be the sports event of the year has a following of fans that do not want to see it end and want something done about it and rather than sit and complain about it they have organized to get their Friday night program back.

The program is about a detective who is a vampire, has a girlfriend who is not and solves crimes, often with the help of the vampire community. It is also sandwiched in between two other popular programs that complete the Friday night lineup with solving crimes and dealing with ghosts.

While it might not be a complete night for men it is for women on television, this front is so organized that they have taken their demand to keep this program on the air to DirecTV.

They also have a message board where they not only discuss the program they have a poll to keep it on the air that will be sent to DirecTV who asked for it and would like to know how many of these fans would change to DirecTV should they pick it up like they have other popular programs that were canceled.

This poll has entries for those who have DirecTV Deals already, those who will switch and those who will not change their current provider. The percentage for those who will switch so they can see their favorite Friday nigh program is 71% of the votes.

The fan base within the first twenty-four hours of the poll had more than 1300 voters at Moonlight Line.

There is also a page where fans and non-fans are letting their thoughts be known after an article that let the Internet public know about these fans and their plight. This can be found at Mark’s Sci-Fi / Fantasy Blog.

The big question that is left is what will DirecTV decide, either way it shows DirecTV has their subscribers and future subscribers in mind with their programming line up.

When News Events Happen Where Are You?

That is often a question that people ask when some worthy news event occurs and one answer is watching it on television. Having what Direct TV offers means that all the top news channels are available, with all the latest news and complete coverage of news events. That same thing can not be said for local channels, yes they cover it until but not for the length of time and as in depth as the channels that deal with news all day every day.

When you have these kind of channels with a Direct TV deal it means knowing the full details of important events when they occur not a week after when all the newspapers and local channels have had time to add their opinions in also. There are some events that for years to come people will ask where you were when they occurred and when you have the advantage of watching it from the start you will be able to answer clearly.

Having the channels that Direct TV offers is not just about the news, its about all the channels that can be entertaining, educational and exciting and that is just as important in life as news worthy events.

What Time Of Year Is It?

In a perfect world for a sports fan the crowd when asked what time of year is it would yell back its NFL Sunday Ticket Time.

Of course that is not going to happen but what is going to happen is the games that will be in HD programming on DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket package.

Dierect tv has great programming year round with the movie channels and programs the kids like but there is something about a football game that can get you really excited.

Satellite tv has something for the whole family to enjoy no matter what time of day or night it is and there is nothing worse than a night when your awake and turn the tv on to infomercials. That isn’t a problem with a direct tv deal there is always something to watch.

What else is great is that the receivers are the latest technology and they include parental locking systems. That means there is no changing the channels for the children when they want to see something else, instead of stopping what your doing you can let them take command of he remote. You know they will only see channels that are appropriate for their age because you set the limits.

Soccer Fans Will See A Change

Mid June is not just vacation time for some it is time for the soccer fan to begin tuning in to the Fox Soccer Channel that will be found on channel 619. Currently on channel 613 the switch over will begin on June 11^th and other than the change there will be no change in the same great soccer matches and sports shows.

For the soccer fan that is new to DirecTV this is a channel that can’t be missed with the world-class soccer programming that is offered on the Fox Soccer Channel. Some of what will be seen on this channel is England’s Barclays Premier League, Argentine First Division and Italy’s Series A league. There are matches like the UEFA Cup, the World Cup, the English FA Cup and more of these not to be missed tournaments. There are also college soccer matches and the Major Indoor Soccer League.

For a new or old soccer fans this is programming not to be missed during soccer season because there will not be the amount or quality of soccer games and tournaments found on other networks and don’t let the change fool you, the same great programming will be seen on channel 619 as it was on channel 613.

The Proof Is In The Research

Recently there has been information released on a study by SNL Kagan that shows that as many as ten percent of television viewers who are about to loose their channels with the change from analog to digital television have all ready opted change to pay television broadcasting and many have decided to take one of the satellite TV deals.

For many viewers rather than purchase a new television or a converter box it is more exciting and convenient to have satellite television installed in their homes for use with their existing television.

This change is believed with studies like these to add to the customer base of cable and satellite TV providers as the time draws closer for the analog broadcasts to end in February 2009. Because of this there are more satellite TV deals and cable deals to entice new subscribers as this can be thought of as the great race, since there are still millions that are depending on their antenna and local stations for news and entertainment.

Parental Control Of The TV

Every parent is concerned what their children might see on television and with a DirecTV receiver there are ways to deal with just what they can see and what they can not see.

In the receivers there is a Lock and Limit feature that can be set to lock children out of channels that have programming that is not for their age group and that the parent does not feel comfortable with them watching.

This feature also has one other advantage that is good for using for everyone including the babysitter. This feature is the ability to limit spending on pay per view programming, by doing this it ensures that there are no pay per view programs unless the pin number is used to authorize using pay pre view.

The same holds true for the blocked channels from the children, while it may not be programming that is suited for them there will be programs and movies that the adults in the household want to see and this is easily done just by putting in a personal identification or pin number.

This is a way of keeping the children safe while watching television and the parents content that they are doing the right thing when it comes to the quality of programs their children watch.