AP - Satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp. on Thursday unveiled a digital video recorder that can send TV signals to a computer screen or mobile phone.

As cable providers beef up their PC video offerings, satellite and telco operators increasingly see over-the-top broadband video delivery as a viable option to shore up their own weaknesses. Over the past year, both DirecTV and DISH Network have rolled out over-the-top Video On Demand on Internet-connected set-top boxes, while telcos in Europe have been combining digital terrestrial linear TV broa...

DirecTV, the largest U.S. satellite television provider, said on Friday it has reached an agreement with AT&T to offer a co-branded package of video, home phone, wireless phone and Internet service, starting Feb. 1, 2009. DirecTV will begin selling the service once AT&T’s current partnership with DISH Network expires on Jan. 31. AT&T said current AT&T/DISH

Last week here at the clintonfitchdotcomhouse, we decided to move away from Dish Network and have AT&T U-verse installed for our television and Internet needs.  If you are not familiar with U-verse, it is the fiber optic solution from AT&T and is along the same lines as Verizon's Fios.  So far we have been very happy with the quality and performance of U-verse, esp...

Dish Network and DirecTV are battling amongst themselves to promote the most HDTV channels, as well as outflank cable competitors like Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Dish Network is beating DirecTV and cable competitors to the punch, reports Light Reading. They have begun to roll out standard-def and high-def service in the eastern half of

Now that the satellite radio merger between Sirius and XM is nearly a done deal, satellite tv competitors Dish Network (13 million customers) and DirectTV (16.32 million subscribers), are weighing another attempt to merge, says The Wall Street Journal (on-line edition). No formal proposal has been made, notes Reuters, but Dish executives and DirecTV representatives have

DISH Network got lucky in the early hours of Wednesday after a successful launch of its EchoStar XI broadcast satellite from Boeing's Sea Launch platform in the Pacific. DISH, the second-largest U.S. satellite TV operator, needs to roll out more HD channels to be able to compete with larger rival DIRECTV, as well as cable and

[CN+] Dish Network is hoping that second time's the charm when it launches its next satellite Tuesday.

DISH Network (Echostar) and Alcatel-Lucent today announced that DISH Network will test the DVB-SH mobile broadcast technology in the United States. The ultimate objective is to validate the performance and cost-efficiency of the DVB-SH standard. The DVB-SH standard (Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite services to Handhelds), is an evolution of DVB-H …

DISH Network Corporation and Alcatel-Lucent today announced that DISH Network will test the DVB-SH (Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite services to Handhelds) mobile broadcast technology in the United States, with the appropriate DVB-SH equipment, test tools and training provided by Alcatel-Lucent. This evaluation will take place in DISH Network's laboratories in Atlanta, Ga. from May to