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Dish Network San Antonio TX has recently launched a new line of digital video recording (DVR) set-top boxes known as Hopper. It is primarily distinguished by its Primetime Anytime functionality, which automatically records primetime programming off the four major U.S. television networks. Later software upgrades have added AutoHop, which allows commercials to automatically be removed from these recordings, and Hopper with Sling, which integrates Slingbox place-shifting technology directly into the box.

Whole-home DVR is a great idea. Instead of having a full-blown digital video recorder installed with every HDTV in the house, this allows the use of a single storage device that can hold all the recordings, and can be used with terminal devices to access on different TVs. The Dish Network San Antonio TX Hopper is the best implementation of this idea to date. It’s a three-tuner HD satellite receiver that can support up to three Joeys, which are smaller devices that can access the Hopper’s tuners and DVR storage from other rooms via a coaxial connection. Reasonable pricing, copious features including 2TB of storage space, and a well-designed interface put the Hopper head and shoulders above

So, if you have Dish Network San Antonio TX already and can’t decide if it’s worth the upgrade, don’t overthink it: This upgrade is a no-brainer. If you’re considering switching to Dish Network San Antonio TX and you’re worried about not liking the DVR as much as your current provider’s, you also have an invalid concern, as the Hopper is as good as any provider-issued model on the market. Things will get much more interesting when other providers get on the whole-home DVR game and start to offer as many TV-anywhere options as Dish, but for now the Hopper offers some unique, desirable features that you just can’t get anywhere else.

Hopper can easily be used on your normal Iphones and Ipads along with Android based devices. One clever feature of the Hopper DVR is that, if you stop watching a recorded program on your iPad, you can pick up right where you left off on another device.