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[The Digital Music Weblog - digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com _] EchoStar PocketDish (Portable DVR): Apple appears reluctant to get into the portable video business, and EchoStar is reportedly grabbing the bull by the horns. Expect to see its new gadget, the PocketDish, this summer. PocketDish is a handheld digital video recorder (DVR—like a TiVo). While computer makers are trying to figure out how to get products into the living room, EchoStar, which exists mostly in the living room, is trying to get out.

[Gigaom.com] Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » Echostar buys into Archos: But you can’t deny that Archos, does know how to jump ahead of the technology curve. One of the first few to offer hard drive based MP3 players, and more recently, the portable video players/recorders, the company has come up with a fancy new portable DVR, they call AV 700 which resembles the old Newton in size and shape. It works with all sorts of video formats like Divx, MPEG4 and Windows Media, even though it is a linux-based device, with a nice 7 inch screen. It can record television shows with nary a computer in sight.

[Gigaom.com] Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » Echostar buys into Archos: ... the company has come up with a fancy new portable DVR, they call AV 700 ... Echostar invests $10 million in Archos: It’s probably because this guy I ...

[Engadget.com] Engadget - www.engadget.com: Here are some more details on the upshot of EchoStar's buy into Archos: they plan to put out a portable DVR device called the PocketDish that will by symbiotic with its set-top box overlords via USB

[Engadget.com] Archos’ new AV700 will play nice with your DISH Network DVR ...: Supposedly Archos is teaming up with EchoStar on the AV700, a new portable video player with a 7-inch LCD screen that’ll let you copy over TV shows or movies that are stored on your DVR-enabled DISH Network satellite receiver so you can take them with you when you leave the house. Nah, it doesn’t have a satellite TV tuner built-in, but Archos is promising to have a PVP with a DVB-T tuner sometime before the end of the year (not that it does us much good in the States, since we use a different standard for terrestrial digital TV over here). Even so, it’s a smart move for EchoStar, who are obviously trying to do whatever it takes to catch up with archrival DirecTV. We’re resigned to the fact that there will probably be loads of DRM involved, but there’s really no reason why every satellite or cable TV provider couldn’t make it easy for people to copy shows off their DVRs and onto portable devices; it’d only make what they’re offering more attractive and more valuable to their subscribers.

[Dailywireless.org] Daily Wireless - Handheld DVR: Archos has introduced the AV 700 Mobile Digital Video Recorder (DVR), with video recording and scheduling features of a digital video recorder. It enables direct video recording onto a 100-gigabyte hard drive, which stores up to 400 hours of video (some 250 movies).

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