All Articles Tagged Dish Network

Grant Clauser | 05/11 09:12 AM, 2 Comments

Dish Network unveiled at CES 2012 the Hopper whole-house high definition DVR that allows users to record all primetime network shows (ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC) with one press of a button (the feature is called “Primetime Anytime”) and watch them on up to 4 TVs around a home. Now a new feature adds auto commercial skipping called Auto Hop. Viewers are offered the option to select Auto Hop when they schedule a recording. Auto Hop only works on primetime programming on the four major networks, and it also doesn’t… View this story

Lisa Montgomery | 01/10 06:33 AM, 1 Comment

Dish Network CEO Joe Clayton said at CES 2012 that the company will unleash a “whole new animal” in the world of home entertainment, adding that "we are basically relaunching our company." Dish is launching a new video distribution system. The "Hopper" HD DVR serves as the hub of the network, storing up to 2 terabytes (equal to 2,000 hours of entertainment) of HD content for distribution to as many three "Joeys" (the super-small receiver boxes), which are installed in other rooms of the house. Clayton made the announcement after… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 09/25 08:42 AM, 3 Comments

Dish Network might just have the perfect solution for anytime, anywhere, anyhow entertainment. At CEDIA Expo 2010, the company is showing its Dish satellite service integrated with Google TV and Slingbox. Those two services, coupled with Dish’s own TV, DVR and video-on-demand content get us closer than ever to a world in which we can search for any kind of content and play it (or record it) on the fly. It’s trickier than it seems. Universal Content, Universal Search There are countless solutions today that get us pretty close to… View this story