INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
After promising up the feature for the better part of a year, Dish Hopper line just got Google Assistant functionality
The feature brings hands-free control to the receivers, allowing for the standard array of functionality like play, pause, fast forward and
rewind, along with content search
Here are a handful of examples from Google,
&Turn on my Hopper&
&Tune to channel 140&
&Show me home improvement shows&
&Open Game Finder
on Hopper&
&Rewind 30 seconds& &Pause& and &Resume&
&Record Game of Thrones on Hopper&
You get the idea.
Dish announced the featureback at
CES — I&m not sure eight months qualifies as &soon& in terms of software updates, but there you go
The feature works with Hoppers that are paired with Assistant-enabled devices like Google Home smart speakers and Android handsets
Apparently the company rolled the feature out to about one-percent of users last week as a kind of large-scale test.
Dish has supported
Alexa for some time, on the other hand
Last May, the company brought the hands-free skill to Hopper,and added support for its Joey receivers back in October
Amazon assistant also added DVR recording capability for Dish,TiVo, DIRECTV andVerizon this March
