Dish Network adds 'Auto Hop' commercial skipping feature to its Hopper DVRs

One of the main features when Dish Network unveiled its Hopper and Joey multiroom DVRs at CES was PrimeTime Someday, a setting that archives iii hours of network programming, every night on the iv main stations for a week and now it's upping the ante past calculation commercial skipping to the mix. While automatic commercial skipping every bit an out of the box characteristic went out from most DVRs with ReplayTV, the new Auto Hop feature edits out the breaks from those PrimeTime Anytime recordings starting at 1 AM that dark. While information technology'due south still been possible on other platforms like Windows Media Center, Sage TV and MythTV with 3rd-political party add-ons (nosotros tin can show you how on Media Centre) this requires pushing just i button. So, assuming our glowing review and the knowledge that yous'd never miss another primetime show wasn't enough to make the switch, is saving a few minutes watching those shows on DVR subsequently pushing you towards the (potentially Mad Men-less) edge?

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DISH Introduces Commercial-Gratis Idiot box With "Auto Hop"

ENGLEWOOD, CO--(Marketwire - May 10, 2022) - DISH (NASDAQ: DISH) satellite subscribers will now get the feature viewers take been waiting for since the beginning of television -- the choice to automatically skip over commercials. The new "Machine Hop" adequacy for the Hopper whole-dwelling house Hard disk drive DVR system is being activated today, and it allows customers to skip all commercials for most recorded primetime Hard disk programs shown on ABC, CBS, Play a trick on and NBC when viewed the 24-hour interval after airing.

"Viewers love to skip commercials," said Vivek Khemka, vice president of DISH Product Management. "With the Auto Hop adequacy of the Hopper, watching your favorite shows commercial-free is easier than ever earlier. It's a revolutionary development that no other company offers and it's something that sets Hopper above the competition."

DISH is the nation's third-largest pay-Tv provider, delivering Telly service to millions of families nationwide. DISH launched the Hopper whole-home Hard disk drive DVR system in mid-March, giving viewers the power to tape up to six shows at once while playing back HD content in up to four rooms.

"Auto Hop" is an extension of the Hopper's PrimeTime Anytime™ capability, the sectional characteristic that allows viewers, with i click, to tape all of the primetime Tv programming on ABC, CBS, Fob and NBC in HD -- the networks that deliver some of the most popular shows during primetime.

The Hopper automatically stores these shows for eight days later they have aired, creating an on-demand library of approximately 100 hours of primetime Telly shows, and making information technology easy to admission episodes from last night, or concluding week.

"The magic of PrimeTime Anytime is that it allows DISH subscribers to catch upwards on all primetime shows, including episodes recorded over the past week and recommended by friends, family, and co-workers after they've already been circulate," said Khemka. "With Hopper, you have admission to all primetime Hd programs broadcast by the iv major networks. Now you lot tin can watch many of those shows commercial-free, with Car Hop."

Auto Hop, using patented engineering science, works with most shows recorded using PrimeTime Someday (patent pending). A viewer tin sentry a show with the Auto Hop option commercial-free starting at ane a.m. ET, after a prove has been recorded to the Hopper's PrimeTime Anytime library. Prior to that, The Hopper's thirty-second "hop forward" feature continues to work for same-twenty-four hour period viewing.

Auto Hop does not work on alive broadcasts.

Lauded by reviewers as the best whole-dwelling DVR for its intuitive user interface, never-earlier-seen features and reasonable pricing, the Hopper whole-dwelling HD DVR system makes it easy to savor Hard disk drive programs in multiple rooms. PCMagazine named the Hopper an "Editor'south Choice" amidst DVR products and calls the award-winning and innovative Hopper "1 of the best DVRs we've e'er seen."

ENGADGET has similar praise for the Hopper and the PrimeTime Someday characteristic "considering information technology allows u.s. to observe shows someday after they first aired, so if you acquire of a great new show while wasting time at the water cooler, information technology isn't too late to get home and scout it or choose to save it for a later viewing. It'southward a step towards a future where we tin can watch whatever nosotros want without having to plan in advance or consult a listing to brand certain our shows will exist recorded. What else can we say? Information technology just works."

For more information about the accolade-winning Hopper and Joey by DISH, including technical specifications, please visit www.dish.com/hopper.

Hopper and Joey images are bachelor at http://printing.dishnetwork.com/Press-Heart/Photo-Library.

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