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Here’s the rundown of this week’s show:
It’s been a quiet past couple weeks for us, but we’re back now. We kick off with a look back at news we missed, and we look ahead to E3 next week. Netflix and Redbox differ on embargos, Netflix to add multiple-stream accounts, Dish Network’s Auto Hop get hauled to court, and Matt reviews Goon and the latest Ghost Recon game.
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Great show! I’ve never been a big fan of the Ghost Recon
games though. The stuff about Dish’s Auto Hop and the networks is kind of
crazy. I know I could be called biased because I work at Dish, but I just can’t
wrap my head around the networks’ logic. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love
the Auto Hop feature, but even without it, does anyone with a DVR actually sit
through the commercials on a pre-recorded show? I know I skip them. I’ve been
fast forwarding through commercials back before DVRs were around, back in the
days of VCRs, dollar a gallon unleaded, and pay-phones. Skipping the
commercials allows me to fit more of those shows into my schedule, and Auto Hop
makes it much easier, and pleasant to do it. Do the networks’ want me to get
some kind of repetitive stress injury from smashing the Skip Forward button
over and over?
I may be wrong, but my understanding of the Hopper is they are not in fact modifying the content. While they are manually determining timestamps for commercial breaks, that is only sent as metadata … the commercials are still there and you can manually rew/ff to watch them.
All the hopper is doing is looking at the metadata and then auto-skipping when it sees the timestamp. In order to not piss off the broadcasters (though obviously it didn’t work), they are not turning this feature on by default. They require you to manually turn it on.
Regardless, my understanding is they are not changing the content.
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