An Open Letter to Satellite TV Owners:

The folks here at OnSat are working to provide the best programming guide available for satellite TV owners, both for DIRECTV and DISH Network. With over 20 years of satellite programming guide experience under our belts, we feel we can provide more bang for your buck than any other program guide.

Many people feel that the advent of the on-screen program guide makes the printed guide unnecessary. We beg to differ.

When looking at what is coming up in the future, OnSat shows the on-screen guide for what it actually is—a fine tool for finding out what’s on right now and in the next two hours, but a poor navigator for the more distant hours, days and even weeks.

 
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In test after test, we find what we want to watch 4 to 10 times faster in OnSat than on any on-screen guide. Try this test yourself and see what we mean.

Pick a day and time for which you want to see what is on. Press your Guide button on your remote and begin to navigate to that day and time. You will find that between screen redraws and data downloads necessary to display future information, that planning your viewing in the future is something you don’t look forward to.

And as if that weren't enough, take a look at the 5 line guide. You could be "cursing" all day long trying to find out what's on later.

 

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Now pick up an OnSat. Flip to the afore-determined day and time. Everything that is on is right there. You can even use a highlighter to mark the shows you want to see or stick Post-it notes on the edges of the pages to alert your to a favorite, great tools for planning your TV time. Need more information on a movie title? A quick flip to the alphabetical movie listings and you’ve got the full details. Can’t find anything to watch? Turn the page and look there.

Now let’s look at the numbers. Each on-screen guide shows up to 7 channels for 2 hours. Each page of OnSat shows up to 60 channels for 8 hours. That’s a minimum of 28 keystrokes to see the material on just one page of OnSat. Entire programs can go by while you try to find what’s on during the evening.

We've even highlighted a portion of our page to show you how much the on-screen guide displays at one time.

That’s why we call it the “on-scream guide.”

 The yellow is what you get with the on-screen guide
And if that is not enough, OnSat subscribers with Internet access can get the most up-to-date listings, complete with customization features, at no additional cost!

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We invite you to try OnSat for a limited time at the special rate of $49.95 for one year’s worth of issues. You will never be so well-informed nor so able to see the full spectrum of what’s on satellite TV.