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Discs Still Spinning
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 21, 2011
Has streaming killed the shiny disc? The NPD Group says otherwise. A typical household spends 78 percent of its home video budget to purchase and rent DVD and Blu-ray. The 77 percent of consumers who report watching a movie on disc is unchanged from last year.

NPD's "Entertainment Trends in America" report puts streaming at 15 percent, with VOD and PPV comprising the remaining 8 percent. Spending on home video overall has dropped by 2 percent.

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Discs that Go Bump in the Light
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Dec 07, 2005
The era of scratched CD-Rs (and soon CD-RWs plus all flavors of DVD recordables) could be at hand. Scratch-Less Disc Industries has announced that their Scratch-Less optical discs are now available "at various retail outlets throughout the country and online at major Internet retailers."
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Dish and DirecTV Snub Local HD
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008
Some Dish Network and DirecTV high-def subscribers may not see local channels in HD until 2013 due to a ruling this week by the Federal Communications Commission. The satellite carriers insisted they didn't have the capacity to carry all the local...
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Dish Content Goes Online
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 31, 2010
The Dish Network is joining other video providers in offering its content online to paying subscribers.
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Dish Dishes Up 3D VOD
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 21, 2010
The Dish Network is going 3D, at least in a small way, with an initial round of movies in 3D 1080p from Dish Cinema On Demand.

December offerings will include Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, The Last Airbender, A Christmas Carol, and Step Up 3D. In January Dish will dish out Despicable Me, Shrek Forever After, and Saw: The Final Chapter. Pricing will be $5.99-7.99, probably an improvement over your local 3D movie theater. Resolution will be 1080p but the announcement did not reveal the 3D format to be used.

Dish is also running a Home for the Holidays Sweepstakes through the end of this month. Rent a qualifying program and you may win a Sony 46-inch LED-backlit LCD TV, Sony sat nav, Sony Webbie HD camera, a Fox Family Price Pack, "and more."

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DISH Gets Turbo-Charged
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2008
Dish Network is following the lead of DirecTV by adding a 1080p on-demand movie service and bringing its overal HD lineup to over 150, including TurboHD. “Over the years, DISH Network has maintained a very competitive high definition offering in...
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Dish Introduces Voice Remote
SV Staff  |  Jul 15, 2016
Calling the traditional button-operated remote control outdated, Dish is making a voice-control remote available to owners of its Hopper 3 and 4K Joey set-top boxes for $30.
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Dish Launches Multiroom Music App for Hopper DVR
SV Staff  |  Jun 23, 2017
Dish Networks yesterday launched a DTS Play-Fi-enabled mobile app that lets owners of its Hopper 2 or Hopper 3 satellite receiver/DVR stream and control music on speakers throughout the home.
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Dish Lets You Follow Your Team All Season
SV Staff  |  Oct 25, 2016
Dish today introduced NBA Team Pass, a $119 single-team package that allows subscribers to follow any one of the NBA’s 30 teams throughout the regular season with live access to every out-of-market game.
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DISH Network Adding HDNet Productions
 |  May 04, 2003

EchoStar Communications Corporation will soon up the ante on its competitors. This summer, the company's <A HREF="http://www.dishnetwork.com">DISH Network</A> service will add two new high definition TV networks, HDNet and HDNet Movies, to its expanding roster of high-def programming.

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DISH Network Begins Local Feeds via Satellite in Florida
Barry Willis  |  Feb 27, 2000

Television viewers in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area of Florida now have a real choice between their local cable system and direct broadcast satellite services. On February 21, <A HREF="http://www.echostar.com/">EchoStar Communications Corporation</A> announced that its <A HREF="http://www.dishnetwork.com/">DISH Network</A> had begun offering local WFTS-ABC (Channel 28), WTSP-CBS (Ch. 10), WFLA-NBC (Ch. 8), and WTVT-Fox (Ch. 13) by satellite television to 10 counties in the region.

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DISH Network Dishing Up "The Beast" in 1080p
SV Staff  |  Jan 20, 2009
We talk a lot about DTV and HDTV.  If you've bought an HDTV, you probably know if your set is 1080p or 720p, but if you don't normally watch Blu-ray, you don't have much 1080p programming to view. DISH is changing that. DISH...
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DISH Network Retracts Post-Ruling Promise
SV Staff  |  Apr 22, 2008
DISH Network spoke way too soon. After losing its umpteenth patent appeal against TiVo earlier this month, the satellite company loudly insisted that none of its current crop of digital video recorders violated TiVo's patents, and that all DISH...
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Dish Network terminates 10 retailers
SV Staff  |  Mar 05, 2009
In a rather short press release issued this morning, Dish Network announced that it has terminated 10 retailers across 7 states and Puerto Rico. The company believes that the ten retailers have "engaged in illegal activity including fraud and...
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DISH scoops up busted Blockbuster
Michael Berk  |  Apr 06, 2011

DISH Network today made the winning $320 million bid for the bankrupt Blockbuster, the onetime leader in brick-and-mortar physical movie rentals left reeling by the rise of Netflix and the more recent explosion of streaming services.

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