Only SatelliteGuys.US was on hand at Team Summit 2004 to give you a first look at Dish Networks latest concept "Dish Video on Demand"
Dish Video on Demand will only be available on Dish Network DVR's since the videos are stored on your DVR's hard drive. The Dish VOD does not use up any space from your recording time on the DVR, instead it records into special space where Dish has reserved space on the hard drive. (all Dish DVR's have had this special reserve space)
Movies sent via VOD will be sent when your unit is off and at night, and will be transmitted in real time (meaning it take 2 hours to download a 2 hour movie) When you wake up you will find new movies available for viewing from the VOD menu.
You select your movie from the VOD categories listed above, you then get a list of VOD features available for that category.
If you see a movie you like you can find out more information about it. As shown above.
You then select the movie you want and a menu will pop up asking you how long you would like to rent the movie for (as shown below.)
After you have purchased the movie you can now watch it, Dish has done a good job in making viewing the movie like watching a DVD, including breaking down the movie into selectable chapters
Once on have started your movie you can watch it with complete DVR controls including pause rewind, etc.
If Dish does introduce this concept lets hope that they remove some of the Pay Per View Channels from their lineup and give us new additional channels in their place such as High Definition or other common channels Dish does not carry such as Oxygen, PBS Kids, Trio and Goodlife. (But please no shopping channels)
The nice part about video on demand is you can watch on your schedule, the bad part about it is you can't record it for future watching like you can do on Pay Per View. Because the video is transmitted when you are not using the unit it may take awhile for a lot of content to download to the units.
While this software is nice, I could do without it, however Video on Demand is hot in the cable world, and while Dish tries to emulate the cable Video on Demand service, it will fall short because of limited space and lack of content.
And there you have it another SatelliteGuys First Look!
Dish Video on Demand will only be available on Dish Network DVR's since the videos are stored on your DVR's hard drive. The Dish VOD does not use up any space from your recording time on the DVR, instead it records into special space where Dish has reserved space on the hard drive. (all Dish DVR's have had this special reserve space)
Movies sent via VOD will be sent when your unit is off and at night, and will be transmitted in real time (meaning it take 2 hours to download a 2 hour movie) When you wake up you will find new movies available for viewing from the VOD menu.
You select your movie from the VOD categories listed above, you then get a list of VOD features available for that category.
If you see a movie you like you can find out more information about it. As shown above.
You then select the movie you want and a menu will pop up asking you how long you would like to rent the movie for (as shown below.)
After you have purchased the movie you can now watch it, Dish has done a good job in making viewing the movie like watching a DVD, including breaking down the movie into selectable chapters
Once on have started your movie you can watch it with complete DVR controls including pause rewind, etc.
If Dish does introduce this concept lets hope that they remove some of the Pay Per View Channels from their lineup and give us new additional channels in their place such as High Definition or other common channels Dish does not carry such as Oxygen, PBS Kids, Trio and Goodlife. (But please no shopping channels)
The nice part about video on demand is you can watch on your schedule, the bad part about it is you can't record it for future watching like you can do on Pay Per View. Because the video is transmitted when you are not using the unit it may take awhile for a lot of content to download to the units.
While this software is nice, I could do without it, however Video on Demand is hot in the cable world, and while Dish tries to emulate the cable Video on Demand service, it will fall short because of limited space and lack of content.
And there you have it another SatelliteGuys First Look!
(Thats what I was told)
