A look at Dish Network’s HD receiver/recorder and Toshiba’s tunerless TVs
A look at Dish Network’s HD receiver/recorder and Toshiba’s tunerless TVs
What’s the richest source for programming to show off your super-grade, high-definition TV? At present, that honor goes to satellite TV provider Dish Network and its second-generation HD receiver/recorder, the Dish Player-DVR 942.
While broadcast networks reserve most high-def shows for prime time or weekend afternoons, there’s always something super-sharp and sparkly playing on this box - live on Dish’s (unrivaled-in-quantity) 19 satellite-fed HD channels or waiting in reserve on its hard-disk-drive video recorder.
Dish Network is the “we try harder” brand in pay TV, and the DVR 942 is quite the technological statement. It features two high-definition and two standard-definition satellite TV tuners, plus high-def and standard-def broadcast tuners.
Working this box to the max, you can record from any two sources simultaneously while watching something previously captured on the hard drive. (The 250 GB drive holds about 25 hours of HD content, 120 hours in standard def, or combinations thereof.)
In typical tech guy fashion, I pretty much figured out how to run the show just from fiddling around with the logically laid-out remote control and on-screen menu/program guide, without reading that pesky owner’s manual.
August 12th, 2005 at 10:57 pm
Dish Network is the sleazyest company around. The only companies I know that are more dishonest are the dealers that sell their crap!