| There are lots of advantages to portable video | | | | such fees can amass into a small fortune relatively |
| devices. In fact the ways to use them are limited | | | | quickly. Third, there's no guarantee that any on line |
| only by the creativity of their owners. Using them to | | | | store will have the video you're looking for. |
| catch up on your favorite soap opera while waiting in | | | | Dish Network has found a way to get around all of |
| the doctor's office or while riding the bus are just a | | | | these problems with the introduction of its |
| couple of the ways that the average person can | | | | proprietary portable video device, the PocketDish. |
| enjoy the benefits of one of these devices. The | | | | There are actually three models in the PocketDish line |
| busy professional may want to use a portable video | | | | and each are able to download video directly from a |
| device to keep up with his or her favorite sitcom | | | | Dish Network digital video recorder. Of course the |
| while traveling for business as well as keeping up with | | | | video has to be recorded in the first place, but the |
| current events. | | | | fact that video can be downloaded from digital video |
| The only problem with portable video devices is that | | | | recorders rather than the Internet provides a lot of |
| many of them are difficult to use when it comes | | | | flexibility and convenience for anyone who has a |
| time to find video to download to them. For most | | | | subscription to Dish Network, a Dish Network DVR, |
| devices, getting video generally means getting on the | | | | and a PocketDish. Video is downloaded through a |
| Internet and going looking for the video. While video | | | | USB 2.0 port at a rate of about twelve hours of |
| of things like news events and amateur videos may | | | | video for every hour spent downloading. Since |
| be available for free on the websites of major news | | | | PocketDishes can store between twenty and forty |
| networks and YouTube, respectively, most of the | | | | hours of video, depending on the video itself, what |
| mainstream movies and television shows that you | | | | else is on the hard drive, and the model in question, |
| probably want to watch on your portable video | | | | the hard drive can be filled up relatively quickly and |
| device are available only from on line video stores. At | | | | even overnight while the owner sleeps. |
| least those will be the only places they're available | | | | Of course, just like all other portable video devices, |
| legally. | | | | PocketDishes can function as MP3 players, digital |
| While convenient in the sense that you don't have | | | | photo viewers, and can display video and photos on |
| too look all over the Internet, on line video stores | | | | normal television screens as well as their own built in |
| can still be a pain in a couple of ways. First, depending | | | | LCD screens. PocketDishes can also serve as gaming |
| on what kind of portable video device you have, you | | | | platforms for video games downloaded from Dish |
| may be limited to only using the on line store run by | | | | Network. All of these features make the PocketDish |
| your product's manufacturer. Second, you'll be | | | | a solution to the common woes of portable video |
| charged a fee for every video you download, and | | | | devices owners in general. |