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March 7, 2013 03:19 am GMT

Whats All The Fuss About? Up Close With The Dish Hopper With Slingbox, The Device That Caused CNET To Implode

Hopper_with_Sling_and_Joey_Beauty_610x294About a month ago, if you'll remember, the very fabric of the Internet journalism game was rent asunder when CNET's parent company, CBS, refused to let it write about the Dish Hopper with Slingbox, a DVR with a system to view your shows remotely built in. More important, however, is the Hopper's ability to "hop" past commercials in prime-time TV a few days after the show aired, allowing you to, say, blow past the commercials in Modern Family while managing a two-handed bong. It is, as they say, indistinguishable from magic.

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