Comments on: How broadcasters could have stopped Dish’s Hopper http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/15/how-broadcasters-could-have-stopped-dishs-hopper/ The economics of digital content Fri, 24 May 2013 23:44:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Joshua Ramsey http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/15/how-broadcasters-could-have-stopped-dishs-hopper/#comment-104248 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:32:37 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=208901#comment-104248 I don’t understand why CBS, FOX, & NBC execs don’t want us to enjoy commercial-free TV. I’m a DISH employee – AutoHop is great because you can easily watch commercial-free TV. Public Knowledge, a consumer advocacy group, is taking a stand for consumers by creating a petition that tells CBS, FOX, & NBC media to keep their hands out of your living room & DVR. Sign their petition to keep control of how you watch TV http://bit.ly/KFdn1Q

]]> By: Eddie http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/15/how-broadcasters-could-have-stopped-dishs-hopper/#comment-102281 Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:53:38 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=208901#comment-102281 The Dish Hooper with its “Auto Hop”, is awesome it takes your DVR experience to a whole new level. Most commercials are redundant and boring. Some commercials are funny and entertaining and get you to watch over and over. So this will only make advertisers work harder and smarter for our business. Nothing wrong with that. TechnoholicsInc.

]]> By: Derek http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/15/how-broadcasters-could-have-stopped-dishs-hopper/#comment-99435 Thu, 17 May 2012 02:11:09 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=208901#comment-99435 My ReplayTV still works great. Even with widescreen programming, we just ‘zoom’ in the TV settings to have it fill up the widescreen TV. They got rid of the commercial skip feature, but there is a 15 second ‘hop forward’ button. Most commercial breaks take 8 hops, so we don’t see the commercials. No other DVR I’ve played with works quite this well. Too bad ReplayTV got sued down, and TIVO took over.

Another thing – I’m PAYING the cable company for my content, so why do I still have any commercials??? If this were free OTA content I have no problem with the commercials.

]]> By: Wander1107 http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/15/how-broadcasters-could-have-stopped-dishs-hopper/#comment-99240 Wed, 16 May 2012 14:06:47 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=208901#comment-99240 The Auto Hop function doesn’t delete commercials it only skips over them. Also the function only works the day after. I already skip over commercials I don’t want to watch.

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