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"Beginning Tuesday, satellite TV provider Dish Network will stream TV shows to its subscribers on a website called DishOnline.com and through set-top boxes and mobile devices.\nThat differentiates Dish's online offering from some other cable or satellite TV Internet channels like Time Warner and Comcast's TV Everywhere strategies, which are primarily focused on web streaming.According to The New York Times, the first wave of content will include shows from the Discovery Channel, HGTV and MTV. Dish plans to serve both TV shows and movies, but most of the content will only be available to subscribers. Some clips or trailers might stream to you even if you're not a subscriber, but full-length programs and movies will generally be restricted.\nWe said it when TV Everywhere was announced, and we'll say it again: These online services would be more impressive \u2014 and more successful at battling piracy \u2014 if they were available to anyone who wanted to pay or view ads, without signing up for an expensive, traditional satellite TV package.\nContent providers are picky about everything from the number of episodes placed online, to the number of devices the content can appear on, to the authentication methods used to verify subscribers \u2014 so that's not as easily done as it is said. Still, we're impressed that Dish Network has opted for a multi-platform approach.\nSubscribers will be able to watch the online content on certain set-top boxes, in addition to the traditionally distributed shows they record with their DVRs. NewTeeVee reports that iOS, Android and BlackBerry apps are coming too."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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