Dish Networks' 4K Hopper 3 DVR Has 16, Yes, 16 Tuners

LAS VEGAS—So you never, ever, e'er have to decide which television shows are worth recording again, Dish Networks offers up its latestHopper DVR which supports 4K content and features sixteen (!) separate tuners. The Hopper 3 announcement comes alongside the reveal of the HopperGO, a storage drive for watching your scads of recorded content offline and on the go.

CES 2022 Bug Art The Hopper iii'south most notable feature is its aforementioned xvi tuners, which Dish claims produce a "disharmonize-gratis" Tv set experience. Each tuner can record or display live content from a split up channel, and when used in conjunction with Dish Network'due south Joey devices can send different shows to various rooms in your home and record an nearly-absurd number shows at once. This is a marked upgrade from our Editors' Choice DVR, the Hopper with Sling, which has six tuners, expandable to viii, total, with the Super Joey box.

The latest Hopper also supports ultra high-definition (UHD, or 4K) content. Alive television has yet to be widely broadcast in 4K, simply services like Netflix, Amazon, YouTube offering 4K content. The Hopper 3 will be able to access Netflix 4K shows and movies, and Sony Pictures volition offering a selection of its films on need in 4K over the box. The updated Joey 3 box volition provide this 4K content to additional rooms in the dwelling house, in a whole-domicile setup.

Perhaps the most compelling aspect of the Hopper three'southward 4K support is how it can handle lower resolution channels. The box will offer 4K Sports Bar Mode, a new view that can display 4 separate loftier-definition aqueduct feeds on one 4K screen. While it's called Sports Bar Mode, it works with any four channels at in one case.

Forth with the Hopper iii, Dish Network announced the HopperGO mobile drive. Sling place-shifting technology lets Hopper with Sling owners sentinel live and recorded goggle box remotely, streamed from their set-top boxes to their mobile device or computer. The HopperGO expands that concept to offline viewing for DVR content. It's a portable storage device with 64GB of flash memory. Dish users tin can transfer up to 100 hours of DVR content from a Hopper three or Hopper with Sling DVR to the HopperGO and spotter it offline. The HopperGO wirelessly streams its stored video to connected mobile devices over Wi-Fi, with a bombardment that Dish claims will last up to four hours.

The Hopper three will come up to Dish users in January, with a monthly fee of $15. The HopperGO starts shipping tardily Q1, and will be available for a one-time $99 fee.