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Dish Network’s Hopper DVR might be the best DVR for your home

Dish Network just introduced its new multi-room DVR, weirdly named Hopper, which can record three shows at one time (while playing back a fourth show), has a 2TB hard drive which can store 250 hours of HD programming, a Slingbox adapter, which will let certain users watch what’s on Dish Network from anywhere in the world AND a super neat PrimeTime Anytime feature that I’m not even sure is legal.

The way the Hopper works is that the Hopper acts as the main DVR for your entire home other ‘Joeys’, which are client receivers, access everything on the Hopper. Like whats en vogue in the DVR world these days, you can record a show on one DVR and watch it on the other. via Gizmodo

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