DISH Unveils Price Hike, New Receivers

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Wednesday, EchoStar took the wraps off a series of new products for its DISH Network DBS service as well as a price increase for basic packages.

The $1 price hike covers basic programming packages for the DISH Network DBS service, and goes into effect March 1. EchoStar attributed the price increase to rising programming costs and the addition of new channels and services in 2001.

On the equipment side, EchoStar unveiled its DishPVR 508, a receiver and personal video recorder with up to 80 hours of total video storage. The receiver made its debut along with the much-anticipated DishPVR 721, a high-end receiver with digital recording capabilities and ports for high-speed Internet access.

From <a href="http://www.skyreport.com" target=none>SkyReport</a> (Used with permission)

If the 508 is $499 I can't imaging what the 721 will cost with Dual Tuners. (I wont even begin to imagine how much it is for a Moxi box!)

Why is that the last year at this time, Dish Boxes were cheep and ran like Yugos. and DirecTV Boxes were expensive and ran like Cadilacs and this year Dish Boxes are priced like Cadilacs yet still run like Yugos? (And the Cadilacs from DIRECTV still run great but now are Yugo priced!)

Something does not seem right in the world.

Scott