EchoStar's PocketDish takes on iPod.(EchoStar Communications Corp's Pocket Dish better than iPod)
Multichannel News, December, 2005 by Stump, Matt
When EchoStar Communications Corp. launched its PocketDish portable video player six weeks ago, it made sure the press received its mano-a-mano fact sheet comparing the device with Apple Computer Inc.'s new video-enabled iPod. Both have 30-Gigabit hard drives. Both provide video, music and photo storage.
That's where the similarities end, according to EchoStar. PocketDish uses a 4-inch screen, compared to the iPod's 2.5-inch screen. EchoStar said it can store 300,000 photos and 20,000 songs, compared to the iPod's 25,000 photos and 15,000 songs. The battery life for video on PocketDish is twice as long, four hours versus two hours. But the biggest difference concerns consumer's pocketbooks. Subscribers can down load up to 30 hours of content...
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