Category Archives: Dish Network

Dish Network Gets Hopped Up On MoCA

Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2012 by MegaZone

One of the recent bits of news out of CES was DISH Networks introduction of their whole-home DVR. Rather than model number like DirecTV’s oh-so-catchy HR34, they’ve reached down under to give their units cute names. The main DVR is … Continue reading →

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AllThingsD: Dish Network Approves of Employees Spamming Blogs

Posted on Saturday, November 26, 2011 by MegaZone

Well, I’m not the only blogger being spammed by Dish Network, they’re doing it to the big boys too, and Peter Kafka over at AllThingsD got fed up with it. I’m talking about comments like these, which were left since … Continue reading →

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EchoStar Preparing a Network DVR

Posted on Thursday, October 27, 2011 by MegaZone

EchoStar hasn’t been very successful in breaking into the US STB market. They, of course, continue to supply hardware to sister company Dish Network, but one of the objectives of splitting the companies apart was to allow EchoStar to provide … Continue reading →

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Dish Network Employees Haven’t Changed Their Spamming Ways

Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2011 by MegaZone

Last month I posted about Dish Network employees spamming blogs across the net, and it looks like they’re still at it. Tonight there was a comment on one of my posts mirrored to LiveJournal, made from 204.76.128.217 – a Dish … Continue reading →

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Sherman, set the WABAC machine to 1999!

Posted on Friday, September 16, 2011 by MegaZone

TechnoBuffalo had a great post today with a look back at the very, very early days of the DVR via this video from The Today Show in 1999. This is when DVRs, then still generally called PVRs (Personal Video Recorders), … Continue reading →

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