One of the major complaints that many people have about modern life is that they just don't have any time for themselves. People are always running around trying to get their work done, meet family responsibilities, and follow up on commitments to their communities. With all of these things going on, there's really now wonder that people complain about not having any time to unwind and do something just for themselves. To make things even more frustrating all of us experience a significant amount of down time in our schedules that prevent us from getting anything else done.
A lot of this time comes in the form of travel. Time spend sitting on a train, waiting in an airport, or sitting in the back of a taxi cab is time that you can't spend at work or with your family. Fortunately though modern electronic devices provide ways to take advantage of that time by letting you use it for both work and or entertainment. Laptop computers are a great example of this on the work side of things. Modern laptops have hundreds of times the power and data storage capacity that desk top computers did only a decade ago. Laptops are also good for entertainment because many of them can play movies off of DVD's or off of their hard drives and some even have HDTV screens built in. The disadvantage of laptop computers is that they're expensive and still relatively big for toting around all over the place with you.
Fortunately there's another solution for on the go entertainment in the form of a portable media device that's marketed by Dish Network, and called the PocketDish. This portable media device has a built in color LCD screen which can display video, digital still photos, and a variety of video games that can be downloaded exclusively from Dish Network. The PocketDish will also play digital audio files in a variety of formats including MP3 and WMA.
While, with the possible exception of its facility as a video gaming platform, the PocketDish may not sound much different from most of the other portable media devices on the market, there is an important difference in how the PocketDish gets its video. All portable media devices that play video need to obtain those video files from some outside source. For most devices, that source is the Internet. The problem with that is that with the current state of affairs for Internet video, it can be time consuming and frustrating enough to find and download video from the Internet that any relaxation that is obtained by watching the video is often offset by downloading the video in the first place.
The PocketDish is different because it downloads video from Dish Network digital video recorders. This is a much easier process in a number of respects. First of all, all of the programming that you would ordinarily watch through your Dish Network subscription is available for download. That way you don't have to rely on an online video store to stock the obscure program that you want to see. It's also much more intuitive- you just program your Digital Video Recorder the same way you would in order to record any other programming and then download it to the PocketDish using a USB connection.
PocketDish is a timesaving technology that actually saves time and is convenient.
