Amendment to DISH Network, L.L.C. ("DISH") Agreement	12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2013
Amended Reseller Agreement [Abstract]
Amendment to DISH Network, L.L.C. (DISH) Agreement	Amendment to DISH Agreement In the second quarter of Fiscal 2013, we amended and extended our agreement with DISH. Under the terms of the previous arrangement, we provided DISH with a stock-based compensation arrangement which entitled DISH to a cash payment based on the increase in price of our common stock over a strike price of $15.48 per share (the “SAR”). The arrangement provided that DISH would receive three equal annual installments of 200,000 SARs. We revalued this award at the end of every reporting period. Additionally, the previous agreement contained a provision that provided for payment of a percentage of predefined net profits of the TV Essentials^® line of business. However, no amounts were earned under the previous net profit sharing arrangement. In exchange for canceling the SAR and to compensate DISH for past services, in August 2012, we paid DISH $5.8 million and issued DISH 700,000 shares of common stock valued at $13.2 million. As of March 31, 2012, we had accrued $3.2 million as a component of accrued compensation in our Consolidated Balance Sheets relating to the SAR. For the year ended March 31, 2013, the additional expense related to the amendment was $15.9 million and is reflected in selling and administrative expense in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. The new amendment extends the agreement through at least February 2016, includes predefined net profit sharing provisions of portions of our TV Essentials^® line of business, and specifies minimum payments relating to those provisions, which will be expensed as a component of cost of sales in our Consolidated Statements of Operations as they are earned by DISH.

Amendment to DISH Agreement

In the second quarter of Fiscal 2013, we amended and extended our agreement with DISH. Under the terms of the previous arrangement, we provided DISH with a stock-based compensation arrangement which entitled DISH to a cash payment based on the increase in price of our common stock over a strike price of $15.48 per share (the “SAR”). The arrangement provided that DISH would receive three equal annual installments of 200,000 SARs. We revalued this award at the end of every reporting period. Additionally, the previous agreement contained a provision that provided for payment of a percentage of predefined net profits of the TV Essentials^® line of business. However, no amounts were earned under the previous net profit sharing arrangement. In exchange for canceling the SAR and to compensate DISH for past services, in August 2012, we paid DISH $5.8 million and issued DISH 700,000 shares of common stock valued at $13.2 million. As of March 31, 2012, we had accrued $3.2 million as a component of accrued compensation in our Consolidated Balance Sheets relating to the SAR. For the year ended March 31, 2013, the additional expense related to the amendment was $15.9 million and is reflected in selling and administrative expense in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.

The new amendment extends the agreement through at least February 2016, includes predefined net profit sharing provisions of portions of our TV Essentials^® line of business, and specifies minimum payments relating to those provisions, which will be expensed as a component of cost of sales in our Consolidated Statements of Operations as they are earned by DISH.