Browsing articles from "May, 2012"
May
25
2012

No Skipping Commercials – Dish Network vs ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX

At least one lawsuit has been filed and two more may have been filed related to satellite company Dish Network’s various commercial skipping technologies. The services in question are “PrimeTime Anytime” and “Auto Hop.”  PrimeTime Anytime records ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX every night for the three hours of “primetime” and keeps those recordings for eight days on a two terabyte  DVR known as the Hopper.  Combined with Dish Network’s Auto Hop feature, “a viewer […]