When to use Entity Manager in Symfony2

Question

At the moment I am learning how to use Symfony2. I got to the point where they explain how to use Doctrine.

In the examples given they sometimes use the entity manager:

$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getEntityManager();
$products = $em->getRepository('AcmeStoreBundle:Product')
        ->findAllOrderedByName();

and in other examples the entity manager is not used:

$product = $this->getDoctrine()
        ->getRepository('AcmeStoreBundle:Product')
        ->find($id);

So I actually tried the first example without getting the entity manager:

$repository = $this->getDoctrine()
        ->getRepository('AcmeStoreBundle:Product');
$products = $repository->findAllOrderedByName();

and got the same results.

So when do i actually need the entity manager and when is it OK to just go for the repository at once?