EchoStar / Dish’s Path Forward

[navychop]

DISH needs to make the autohop feature available for all channels and no waiting 24 hours for it to enable

Controlled by contracts.

 

[John2021]

Controlled by contracts.

i kinda figured that!!!

 

[navychop]

I believe the revolutionary expression "kill the intelligencia" actually meant "kill the lawyers."

 

[John2021]

Controlled by contracts.

Id'e like to know what the difference is between using the auto hop or just holding the FF button down ??? There still losing ad revenue either way!!!!

 

[NYDutch]

Id'e like to know what the difference is between using the auto hop or just holding the FF button down ??? There still losing ad revenue either way!!!!

The difference is who controls the action. Since Dish controls AutoHop, the providers can make it a contract issue. On the other hand, the FF button is ubiquitous, and controlled only by you, making it difficult or impossible for the providers to exercise any control over its use.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

In order for AutoHop to work all the stations need to be on the same transponder. The Hopper actually records the entire transponder to capture all 4 networks for your area.

And it use to be the commercial skipping times were programmed by hand, not automated so someone had to watch and record the times of the commercials so the auto hop knew when to skip the commercials. I don't know if it is still done that way. Its got to be hard now as some stations have in their contract that Autohop is delayed for x number of days after a show airs, while others get it the next day.

It would be hard to do this for other channels.

 

[dweber]

Scott

On CBS and Fox the Autohop marker is present the next day even though Autohop is delayed per the contract. But the nice thing is that you can quickly push the skip ahead button on the remote 4 times it will find the start of the program segment.


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[John2021]

The difference is who controls the action. Since Dish controls AutoHop, the providers can make it a contract issue. On the other hand, the FF button is ubiquitous, and controlled only by you, making it difficult or impossible for the providers to exercise any control over its use.

I'm willing to bet if the stations could control the FF button they would. i have no desire to see ad's for tampons or old peoples diapers during dinner!!! though that's gotten better