PocketDish Fills Gap In Portable Media Device Market
When technology makes huge leaps, it doesn't take long for people to find ways to use that technology for entertainment. That's certainly been the case with computer components that have become increasingly smaller over the past few years. For example, at the beginning of the decade a thirty gigabyte hard drive was fairly standard for a desk top computer. Now thirty gigabyte hard drives are fairly standard for portable media devices that will fit in a large coat pocket. These portable media devices also take advantage of smaller color LCD screens to display things like digital photographs and even videos.
The ability of these portable media devices to play video is what most people use them for these days. They're especially handy for people who are constantly on the go because they allow such people to watch TV wherever they go. This saves them a lot of time, because as we all know, there's a lot of down time when you're always going places. That's because when you're going places, you have to spend time traveling to get there. This time spent traveling, whether it's on a train, in a cab, on a bus, or on a subway or plane, is largely wasted. But with a portable media device, that time can be spent catching up on your favorite television shows or the movie that you've been meaning to watch forever but haven't gotten around to it yet. The good thing about this is that you get to wherever you're going, you can spend time doing interesting things with people you care about without being distracted by thinking about all of the great TV that you're missing.
Unfortunately, these portable media devices don't come without frustration. That's because most of them rely in Internet downloads for the video and other media that they display on their screens or over their headphones or built in speakers. This can cause a fair amount of frustration for their owners especially if their owners have less than ideal speeds for their Internet connections or aren't particularly computer literate. The problem of not having a fast enough Internet connection is obvious- video files are big! Not being particularly computer literate can also be a problem. That's because when downloading video from the Internet, there are a whole bunch of issues that need to be dealt with and taken into account including format compatibility and finding the movie or TV show that you're looking for to begin with. The problem of finding what you're looking for can be a source of frustration and wasted time in itself because, especially if you're looking for something more obscure, it might not even
be there to begin with.
Because of all of these concerns, producing a user friendly portable media device is the key to
producing a successful portable media device. The satellite TV company Dish Network realized this and saw the opportunity to produce just such a device. By allowing the users of a digital media device to download video from its digital video recorders, Dish Network realized that it could supply portable media devices with an unlimited and diverse source of video. Thus the PocketDish was born.
