People who love TV don't want to be limited as to when or where they watch it. There has been plenty of evidence of this over the years as indicated by the fact that there are TV sets in motel rooms, and even in the nineteen eighties you could get hand held TV sets that picked up over the air signals. Of course now there are a lot more different ways to enjoy TV when you travel or are just out and about. These days, while you can get a receiver that will plug into your lap top computer and allow you to watch over the air TV on it, most portable devices that let you watch video store that video in digital form on a built in hard drive. Laptop computers are one example of devices that can do this, but laptops aren't really practical for watching TV under a wide variety of conditions because they're relatively bulky, they don't boot up very quickly, they're expensive, and have a short battery life.
Fortunately there are a whole group of devices that will allow you to watch TV, and perform this function easily enough that you can now watch TV really just about anywhere. You can even be standing in a line in an airport somewhere and still watch TV. These devices are called portable video devices or portable media devices and they're essentially miniature entertainment computers. They feature hard drives and color LCD screens. Many portable video devices can also plug into full sized TV sets so that the video can be displayed on an easy to see screen- this is a way to put those motel TV sets to good use while traveling.
There are a lot of portable video devices on the market, but one in particular really shines in terms of its features and ease of use. This device is called the PocketDish and it's marketed by Dish Network. The PocketDish has all of the great features mentioned in the paragraph above and that you'd expect to find on any portable video device. What really makes the PocketDish stand out from the pack though is the fact that it gets its video by downloading it from Dish Network Digital Video Recorders. This is a much more practical and easy to use method of getting video than most other portable video devices use.
Basically, with the PocketDish, you just go though Dish Network's electronic program guide on your TV and program the dvr (digital video recorder) to record the TV shows and movies that you'll want to watch on the PocketDish. Then, once those programs are recorded, you just hook up the PocketDish to the digital video recorder's USB 2.0 port and tell the machines which video files you want to have downloaded from the digital video recorder's hard drive to the PocketDish's hard drive. It's as simple as that. The process is also fast- it takes the USB connection about five minutes to download an hour of video.
Now, thanks to Dish Network TV and the PocketDish, its easy to bring video with you wherever you go.
