Dish Network is best known for delivering a tremendous number of great TV channels for a great value, but that isn’t the only thing that defines this first class satellite TV company.Dish Network can also provide you with new and innovative ways to watch television. In fact, you might thing that this company invented the concept of innovation because of all of the things that it has done to make satellite TV better than ever!

One recent innovation that Dish Network has developed is the PocketDish~One recent innovation that Dish Network has recently come up with is the PocketDish}.  The PocketDish is a battery powered device that has a built in color LCD screen and a hard drive.  It can be used to play videos and music as well as serve as a digital photo album and video game platform.  What really makes the PocketDish innovative though is the ability of this device to use Dish Network DVRs as sources of video! That’s because it has software that can be used to download video from the hard drive of a DVR onto its own hard drive for later playback! 

This has tremendous applications in terms of allowing the user to better take advantage of “down time” throughout the day by using it to watch TV.  For example, if you have a train or bus ride during your commute or you’re stuck in line at the DMV, just whip out the PocketDish and what was a tedious wait becomes an opportunity to catch up on the TV that you have been missing because of your busy schedule!  Best of all, once you have the PocketDish, the DVR, and the Dish Network subscription; downloading the videos to the PocketDish costs nothing extra!

Another innovation that comes from Dish Network TV is Dish On Demand.In the future the innovations of video on demand will dominate the way we watch TV!  That’s because it makes it possible to watch something whenever you want. The thing about satellite TV though is that it doesn’t lend itself well to video on demand because of the fact that it broadcasts signals to all of the subscribers all at once and isn’t set up for an individual stream of video to any one customer at a time. 

Dish Network has found a way around this limitation though.Instead of delivering a video to every individual subscriber who asks for it, Dish Network transmits a collection of videos to all of its subscribers at the same time so that those videos can be stored on each subscribers’ DVRs.  With Dish On Demand content residing on a hidden part of the DVR hard disk, the subscriber just has to choose an available program, pay for it, and immediately start watching it as if it was being delivered directly over the satellite signal!This also has the great advantage of making Dish On Demand more like a video rental service than a typical pay per view service!

Dish Network has also been dominately innovative in the implementation of its HDTV channels! HDTV provides a better way of watching TV by giving everything the sharp, wide screen picture of a commercial movie theater and the sound quality to go with it. This satellite TV company is unique in that it not only provides more HDTV channels than anyone else (well over a hundred), but it can also provide them in stand alone form so that you can get HDTV without bothering with traditional TV channels!  Additionally, it provides some Dish On Demand movies in 1080p resolution when every other service provider is limited to 1080i resolution.

Dish Network is the clear choice for anyone who appreciates innovation!