Time Warner, Comcast, DirecTV and Verizon FiOS TV all displayed
ways we could enjoy their service without a set-top box tied to our TV during CES 2011. A year later, while tablet apps have launched, living room progress is limited o DirecTV's HR34 soft launch and a limited Verizon FiOS app on Xbox 360 . So, here we are at CES 2012 with all four lined up at the Samsung booth
under the N Service banner, again. Despite our disappointment over the delays, Comcast's app was slick, though limited to VOD-only just like the Xbox 360. Time Warner Cable's port of TWCable TV was similarly well appointed, although it lacked the DVR tie-ins of its Panasonic counterpart
we saw earlier. The Verizon FiOS beta app was very rough around the edges, but allowed for either live TV or VOD streaming via the internet. DirecTV clearly had the best showing, but mostly because its implementation is actually shipping, and now is
supported on more TVs. From what we're told, it's largely legal department, not technical concerns that are holding up the apps from launching, but until they hit Smart TVs everywhere you can peruse the pics in the gallery below.
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This is a cool feature to allow customers to download apps to their TV's, which from what it sounds like DIRECTV was the closest out of these four competitors to prefect it. But none of this matters since I saw what DISH Network had to offer at CES with the Hopper! The Hopper allows customers to stream movies to the Hopper using Blockbuster@Home! Since DISH Network bought them out, DISH Network has started offering their customers the ability to stream thousands of movies to their DVR's including the Hopper. The Hopper allows for full DVR functions in all four rooms and it offers Pandora radio and the TruVolume feature. TruVolume allows for a seamless volume control without any fluctuations in sound ever! I work for the company (DISH) and I learned that the Hopper comes with three Joeys and they're client boxes that go on the other TV's and its allows customers to have all the same functions as the room where the Hopper is at except picture and picture. I can’t wait to get a hold of this new receiver and there are many more new features that are available on this receiver.
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