Originally published February 7 2006
New DVR fits in your pocket
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The DVR from Dish Network allows consumers to carry recorded TV programs in their jacket pocket. The small box has a color screen and can store dozens of movies. Prices for the Pocket Dish models range from $329 to $599.
A new digital video recorder from satellite broadcaster Dish Network allows you to take around copies of TV programs on a small plastic box that fits in a jacket pocket.
The box is a portable media player with a color screen and storage for dozens of movies.
Somebody should have offered that option a long time ago.
But most digital video recorders can't provide anything better than a videotape copy - and even that requires grabbing connecting a separate VCR (or perhaps a DVD recorder), then duplicating a recording in real time.
It's faster to download the program off peer-to-peer file-sharing networks or the limited but growing selection at Apple's iTunes Music Store - as long as you're OK with stealing the new copy or spending another $2 for something you already paid for, in the form of your cable or satellite bill.
Each of the three Pocket Dish models built for it by the French company Archos - the $329 AV402E, the $499 AV500E and the $599 AV700E - can plug into the USB 2.0 ports on Dish's high-end Dish Player 942 for a quick transfer of programs you've recorded.
(Dish sells the 942 to new customers for $250; existing customers pay the full $699. The company says it hopes to add Pocket Dish support to older recorders with slower USB 1.1 ports.)
Its 37 gigabytes of storage can easily hold two dozen movies, with room left for music and photos.
The screen made video appear worse than it was, but when plugged into a TV with the included cables, Pocket Dish video looked as sharp as it did from the DVR.
Watching movies or playing music on the large screen, however, exhausted the battery in just over four hours and 15 minutes.
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