Gizmodo has a brief piece on a new Portable DirecTV Receiver that has been introduced by Samsung. The unit appears to be about the size of a portable DVD player, but no word on whether it even has the capabilty to run on batteries (I would guess not). One thing that is really not clear from the writeup is how you actually get the satelite signal — is there some external antenna? do you still need clear southern exposure? The answers to those last questions might make it a bit less ‘portable’.
Just think, you could combine this with some built in Tivo-like PVR capability and you have a pretty powerful combination.
Arrives in March of 2006 with a $499 price tag.