Frankly I see AutoHop as pointless and "dangerous" in the sense that it gives networks an excuse to go after time-shifting technology in general, not just AutoHop. It seems to me that money will be wasted on AutoHop regardless of the outcome. Not to mention, is Dish paying employees just to sit there and watch TV, placing markers to skip, every single day? Is it really worth all that just so that lazyasses don't have to hit SKIP FWD 7 or so times? The one time I tried AutoHop I didn't even like it because it took too long to start skipping. I was already grabbing my remote ready to skip before I remembered "Oh yeah, AutoHop is supposed to kick in any moment now."
See, I love Auto Hop. I like the set it and forget it nature. I usually only see maybe 2 seconds of a commercial before it kicks in. Occasionally there will be a promo that isn't skipped but it's not like that happens every commercial break. It's great when I am doing something else while watching TV and never have to think to grab the remote.
My only problem is that I can't find enough network programing that I like to take advantage of it with. I want Auto Hop to be expanded to every channel. The fact that someone has to actually watch and manually insert the markers mean that's probably not likely though.