subject: Carry Dish Network Wherever You Go [print this page] Dish network is making the best use of modern technology in various ways. Recently they have launched a portable satellite video player perfectly fitting into your pocket. This device is made to store satellite TV shows, movies, news, music and many other digital data to its hard drive memory. Most importantly not being a dish network subscriber, you can still purchase the device from any dish network dealer.
You might be thinking, what"s new in that? Various electronic companies have already launched portable video player devices in the market and people are quite acquainted with that since long before. But as Dish Network claims, the Pocket Dish is not just a portable video player but something you can call it as portable media center. Besides watching various satellite TV programs, users can also play games and store up to 300,000 still photos to the device. Moreover you don"t have to buy the games or movies but you download them directly from your satellite TV system through dish network DVR.
EchoStar Communications, the owner of Dish Network, launched the device in October, 2005. Implementing ground breaking technologies they have structured three pocket dish models namely, AV402E, AV500E and AV700E.
Size and configurations vary with the categories. AV402E is an entry level pocket dish device with 20 GB memory and 2.2 inch LCD screen. It can play 20 hours of dish network digital programming. AV500E is a little richer in configuration having 4 inch of LCD screen and 30GB storage capacity. The most advanced one is AV700E. It has 7 inch LCD screen and 40GB data storage capacity. The price value is around $150, $300 and $400 respectively.
The pocket dish device is very much user-friendly, similar to other dish network services. Users can directly transfer satellite TV telecasts from their television system to the pocket dish by simply connecting the satellite TV DVR receiver with the pocket dish device through a 2.0 UBS cable.
Commonly, when a dish network DVR receiver records certain satellite TV program, it gets stored to the hard drive memory in a compressed format. Therefore the video data can easily fit into the memory of pocket dish device. Other portable video players can only accept data from computers while pocket dish can be accessed directly from your television set up which is a great benefit indeed.
Pocket dish resembles with video iPod in terms of LCD display and hard drive capacity. But the advantage actually lies in pricing. Apple iPod costs a lot more than this EchoStar product. Also not having a computer set up the iPod thing is actually of no use, where as you can transfer data to your pocket dish directly from satellite TV. In other words, here you can get a greater dish network programming option to choose from and keep in your device.
So, get ready to carry your favorite dish network programs everywhere you go and watch at any moment you wish to. Present yourself with the latest dish network offer and get refreshed anytime anywhere.
