Dish Adding 4K Content, New Line of DVR Products, Hopper Services

Dish Network is expanding its Hopper service offerings and adding 4K programming, it said in a series of announcements Tuesday at CES. In a news release, Dish unveiled its 64 GB mobile video drive HopperGO, which allows carrying up to 100 hours of content from a Hopper DVR for offline viewing on mobile phones and tablets via the Dish Anywhere app. The $99 HopperGO will be available later in Q1, Dish said. It also announced its Hopper 3 DVR, which will include 16 tuners, expanding the capacity for viewers to watch programming in multiple rooms or set multiple recordings. Dish also said it would integrate Google's YouTube onto Hopper 3 and it would be the first major U.S. pay-TV provider to integrate Netflix titles into its universal search (see here). The Netflix app already is integrated into Dish's Hopper set-top boxes. And Dish said in a news release that a variety of Ultra HD content will be available on its Hopper 3 and its upcoming 4K Joey via Mance Media, Netflix, Sony Pictures and The Orchard.