My understanding is...
Dish purchased the 'sling' tech company.
Dish owns the tech used to stream from the home unit to remote device/location.
Direct does not have license to this 'sling' tech.
Direct cannot stream from home unit to remote device/location.
Direct's app redirects/repackages streams from original source.
Dish,
Your home unit receives 'live' discovery channel feed.
Your home receiver processes the live feed and pushes that live feed via internet to your remote device.
Anything you can see at home can be sent to remote device.
You are watching your receiver, remotely.
Direct,
You log into Direct's server,
You select discovery channel (example).
Direct connects you to discovery channel streaming options (if allowed/provided by discovery).
You are watching Direct's and/or discovery's server.
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