DISH introduces Hopper Transfers to Android Platform

[Scott Greczkowski]

New DISH Anywhere App Features ‘Transfers’ for Android, iPad and iPhone

Release Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 7:00 am MST
Terms: Products and Services
Dateline City: NEW YORK

Addition of ‘Transfers’ functionality to DISH Anywhere speeds access of favorite content on mobile devices

Watch transferred content even when no Internet connection is available

Easily watch live TV and DVR recordings from Hopper with Sling on tablets, smartphones, and computers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Responding to growing consumer demand to watch favorite content on mobile devices, DISH (NASDAQ: DISH) is readying an upgrade to its DISH Anywhere™ app that incorporates Transfers functionality to both iOS and Android phones and tablets. Using the new DISH Anywhere app, Hopper™ with Sling® users will soon be able to transfer their favorite shows for offline viewing to iPhones, iPads and Android phones and tablets. This enhancement will be pushed as an update to the free DISH Anywhere app by the end of the year.

Currently, DISH offers two different apps for remote viewing, DISH Anywhere and Hopper Transfers. DISH Anywhere is used when connected to the Internet for remote viewing of live TV programs or recorded events and is available on most Internet-connected devices including iPhones, iPads and Android phones and tablets.

Hopper Transfers is the second DISH app for remote viewing. It is used to move recorded programs from a Hopper with Sling to mobile devices for watching programs when an Internet connection is unavailable. This app and capability is currently only available for iPads.

TWO MOBILITY APPS BECOME ONE

By the end of the year, both convenient features, Internet viewing and transfers, will be available within the new DISH Anywhere app and will work with both iOS and Android mobile devices.

“Responding to subscribers who want an even easier way to fully utilize the capabilities of the Hopper with Sling, today, we’re announcing an overhaul of the DISH Anywhere app,” said Vivek Khemka, senior vice president, product management at DISH. “By year’s end, Hopper with Sling users will be able to remotely watch live and recorded shows and transfer recorded programs to their iOS and Android devices, all within the new DISH Anywhere app.”

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I like that they are combining both apps together...

I wish they would combine the DISH Explorer app in too.

 

[Rey]

SWEET!

 

[LER]

Now to see how much it's going to cost me to upgrade to 2 HWS's........

 

[mikew]

Any idea on if they will be making the programs expire after a certain period of time?

 

[king3pj]

I like that they are combining both apps together...

I wish they would combine the DISH Explorer app in too.

I'm glad they are combining the apps too. I currently have 3 dish apps on my iPad to interact with my hopper and that seems a little silly. This is my only concern though... Currently the Dish Anywhere app works with AirPlay to the Apple TV. I use that feature pretty often. However, the hopper transfer app does not work with Airplay for whatever reason. I really hope that when they combine the app that doesn't mean airplay is now blocked across the board in a single app because they can't allow it for transfers.


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[LER]

Now to see how much it's going to cost me to upgrade to 2 HWS's........

Pleasant Surprise from our friends at DIRT..... No Charge! That's a NICE present

 

[lucky86]

Any idea on if they will be making the programs expire after a certain period of time?

I doubt that is going to change from the way it currently is.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Any idea on if they will be making the programs expire after a certain period of time?

Probably still need to connect to your Hopper at least once every 30 days. This is a requirement from the programmers, not DISH.

 

[dwarren2]

Pleasant Surprise from our friends at DIRT..... No Charge! That's a NICE present

Sweet. When I upgraded earlier this year it cost me $100 each for my 2 Hoppers.

 

[Tampa8]

Any idea on if they will be making the programs expire after a certain period of time?

They don't now no reason to believe that would change.

 

[TomD]

Any chance something like this is enabled on the 722 for those of us with the Sling adapter?

 

[Rizon216]

Sweet, looks like I need to check to see how much an upgrade to HWS will cost as well!

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Any chance something like this is enabled on the 722 for those of us with the Sling adapter?

No the CPU is not fast enough to re-encode the video for the portable device.

 

[Bobby]

The 722 doesn't have the firepower to make it happen. Neither does the original Hopper....

 

[Tampa8]

They also want to encourage people to get the Hopper, so no.

 

[KAB]

Sweet. When I upgraded earlier this year it cost me $100 each for my 2 Hoppers.

They took it down to $0.00 this summer.

 

[dwarren2]

Oh well. At least my upgrade from a 722 and 211 to 2 Hoppers(original) didn't cost me anything. I', glad I did the upgrade to the 2 HWS's. DA is much more reliable with the HWS.

 

[mikew]

Sorry...I am still on DirecTV with GenieGo. Not familiar with what Dish currently offers. With GenieGO, you select a program, it takes 60 minutes to encode a 60 minute program and another 5 to transfer it. Then, it expires in 30 days on your device. How does that scenario compare with what Dish currently offers and the new feature described in this thread?

 

[navychop]

Sorry...I am still on DirecTV with GenieGo. Not familiar with what Dish currently offers. With GenieGO, you select a program, it takes 60 minutes to encode a 60 minute program and another 5 to transfer it. Then, it expires in 30 days on your device. How does that scenario compare with what Dish currently offers and the new feature described in this thread?

The time varies a bit, depending upon the program content, but with the iPad transfer function and one of my HWS, it takes 20-30 minutes to transfer an hour's worth of programming. I can't remember for sure if that includes the prep time, but I think so. But it doesn't matter that much, because you can tell the HWS to prepare the program for Transfer while it records the program in the first place. Of course, if you forget to do that, you can tell it to do so later, at transfer time. When my wife returns with the iPad tonight, maybe I'll time it all out again.

Hope this helps.