Dish on 1/6/05:
"No other pay-TV company offers the innovative combination of HD and digital video recording (DVR) features with multi-room capability like the DISH Player-DVR 942."
So myopic.
From Scientific-Atlanta on 1/6/05:
"Scientific-Atlanta announced today the commercial availability of its innovative Explorer® 8300™ MR-DVR set-top. Time Warner Cable, the cable industry leader in the deployment of DVRs, is now initiating the deployment of Multi-Room™ DVR set-tops in its Minneapolis division."
So, Dish announces something that will be available "first quarter 2005" which, like so many of their dates will probably slip, and they take great pride in it. Meanwhile, today I can get from Time Warner a hi-def box that not only has the same features as the Dish box (well, except 160gig vs. 250gig), but also includes an active S-ATA port for storage expansion, and also a FireWire port that, while not active now, may still be activated in the future. And it's available now -- I just called -- and no paying $750 up front.
So no up-front costs, a box that's available today, it's expandable, and may still get Firewire.
Bye, Dish.