CrunchGear is reporting that EchoStar is set to launch some sort of device that will let users archive content recorded on their Dish Netowrk PVRs. Allegedly, you'll be able to have a "virtually unlimited" number of stored programs.It's not clear if this is some sort of online network storage product or a system for copying recordings onto your PC hard drive.
Any way you look at it, EchoStar could use some good news. This weekend, as many as 900,000 EchoStar subscribers will lose access to ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox signals, with EchoStar under a court order to cease offering distant signal channels. EchStar has signed a deal with National Programming Service, which could allow some customers to recieve network channels from outside of their broadcast area.
1. This is probably about PVR storage to an external hard drive. It was mentioned on the last Customer Tech Forum. They said that that ViP 422 would be updated in the Spring to enable this feature.
Posted at 8:07AM on Dec 2nd 2006 by DustoMan