DirecTV Sat-Go

By Nick Mokey
August 19th, 2007

TV addicts have had a way to get their fix in one way or another for decades. From the battery-powered CRT televisions of the 1980’s to the palm-size digital media players that have only emerged in the last few years, television programming has been unwired for quite a while. But being stuck with either broadcast channels or prerecorded shows has always been a major catch – getting hundreds of channels was never a possibility without those pesky coax cables.

DirecTV’s Sat-Go system snips that cord. It’s essentially a TV in a briefcase – which is novel enough – but what sets it apart from portable television that preceded it are the hundreds of stations it can pull in from thin air. Depending on which DirecTV package users subscribe to, they can potentially flip through over 250 channels while, say, sipping cocktails aboard a boat in the middle of a lake. Or stuffing ...

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