Dish Is Nuking Its Hopper DVR's Magical Ad-Skipping Feature for Disney

Dish Is Nuking Its Hopper DVR's Magical Ad-Skipping Feature for Disney

Dish’s Hopper DVR is awesome precisely because it makes it so easy to skip ads. The WSJ reports that the company will be scaling back the awesome auto-skipping feature on some Disney programming. It seems that consumer choice Dish has been claiming to protect for years goes out the window, presumably when it gets a cut of the ad dollars for itself.

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The Secret Method to Skip Commercials with One Button on Your DVR

The Secret Method to Skip Commercials with One Button on Your DVR

DVRs have made all our lives better, that’s a verifiable fact. But fast forwarding through our DVRs is an inexact science, sometimes we skip too far and have to slowly rewind with awkward button combinations. Other times we’re too fearful of faster forwarding that we cut it off with too much left to go. No worries. Lifehacker put together a list of ways to create a secret automatic commercial-skipping button on your DVR. Clean.

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Why Your DVR Hates the Last Few Seconds of Shows So Much

Why Your DVR Hates the Last Few Seconds of Shows So Much

There’s nothing quite like missing the very last seconds of that show you so painstakingly DVRed. Especially if that show is a live sporting event, and you explicitly told the damned box to keep going for an hour or two afterwards. It shouldn’t have to be that way, though. And as Slate explains, there’s a better world of perfect recording just across the pond.

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