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Posted by admin on Mar 6, 2013 in Dish, Hopper, TC | 0 comments
What’s All The Fuss About? Up Close With...
About a month ago, if you’ll remember, the very fabric of the Internet journalism game was rent asunder when CNET’s parent company, CBS, refused to let it write about the Dish Hopper with Slingbox, a DVR with a system to view your shows remotely built in. More important, however, is the Hopper’s ability to “hop” past commercials in prime-time TV a few days after the show aired, allowing you to, say, blow past the commercials in Modern Family while managing a two-handed bong. It is, as they say, indistinguishable from magic. I had a bit of time...
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Posted by admin on Feb 12, 2013 in Dish, TC | 0 comments
Dish’s Charlie Ergen: Netflix Is Going T...
Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen had a few kind words for Netflix at the D: Dive Into Media conference today, saying that the streaming video provider would most likely be successful. More than that, though, he said that the company was already changing the way people are watching TV. When asked what happened with Dish’s purchase of Blockbuster and the company’s plans to roll out its own Netflix competitor, Ergen said, “We were too late for the Netflix side of the business.” Part of the reason for that is that Netflix already reached critical mass and...
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Posted by admin on Feb 12, 2013 in Charlie Ergen, Dish, TC | 0 comments
Dish Chairman Ergen Doesn’t Want To Kill...
Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen is no stranger to controversy, so it should be no surprise that he has a controversial plan for the future of advertising. At the D: Dive Into Media conference today, the outspoken pay TV executive said he didn’t want to kill advertising, but wanted to make those ads more relevant to consumers. Dish’s campaign against ads began last year, when Dish released its Hopper DVR to its subscribers. Some of its key features include the ability to record a week’s worth of primetime content, and also to skip commercials. That rankled a...
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Posted by admin on Jan 7, 2013 in CES2013, Dish, TC | 0 comments
Dish Introduces Next-Gen Hopper With Sli...
Dish has been trying to dramatically reshape its value proposition to consumers with new technologies and feature sets to set it apart from other pay TV providers. One of its big new features last year was PrimeTime AnyTime, which automatically records and allows users to watch any primetime broadcast show aired over the past week. Another was the controversial AutoHop feature, which allows users to automatically skip commercials that they didn’t want to watch. This year, it’s making big improvements in speed and reliability to its Hopper, and announcing a new...
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