Dish Network Offers A Look At The Future

People always want to know what the future holds and this is especially true when it comes to entertainment technology. After all, it for any home entertainment technology enthusiast, the wait to find out what will be in store next can be excruciating. The excitement of sampling new technology can be somewhat addictive.

Fortunately Dish Network can provide you with a couple of glimpses into the future of entertainment technology. That's because, Dish Network has several services that you can use in order to take greater control of how you watch TV, and control over your TV and its programming will be a hallmark of the future of home entertainment technology.

One great example of a type of technology that can do this is Dish Network's special PPV service that's called Dish On Demand. With Dish On Demand, you have a lot more control over how you watch your pay per view movies than you did with more primitive pay per view services. That's because as soon as you've selected and paid for the movie that you want to watch through Dish On Demand, you can start watching that movie without waiting for the next start time like you would with a conventional PPV service.

Dish On Demand also helps you to take more control over how you watch the movie while you're watching it. For example, if you need to duck into the kitchen for a few minutes while you're watching a movie through Dish On Demand, you can just pause it. If you happen to miss a scene or want to go back to see if you heard a particular line correctly you can rewind the movie, and if you know that you don't want to see a certain scene in the movie, you can even fast forward past it.

Dish On Demand also gives you a lot more than normal pay per view because it lets you watch a movie as many times as you want in the twenty four hour period following the moment you paid for the movie. In that sense Dish On Demand is a lot more like a video rental than pay per view programming! But you still don't have to worry about late fees.

Eventually TV technology will probably allow all of us to watch whatever we want on an on demand basis, but until then a digital video recorder will allow you to approximate that capability. A digital video recorder, which is called a DVR for the sake of brevity, is a high tech computerized replacement for the old fashioned VCR. It will automatically record TV shows, sports events, news casts, and movies of your choosing even when you aren't at home just like a VCR, but it has a number of improvements over VCR's. These improvements consist of the fact that a DVR is easy to program and the fact that a digital video recorder stores all of the recordings on a built in hard disk that's cable of holding up to one hundred or to hundred hour of video depending on the model. Once a program is recorded on the hard disk you'll be able to access it on an on demand basis.

Both of these technologies from Dish Network offer a glimpse into the future of entertainment technology