FEATURES GUIDE Learn The 15 BEST HOPPER TIPS YOU’LL FEATURES LOVE! In Just Minutes! Find A Channel Number Fast Watch DISH Anywhere! (And You Don’t Even Have To Be Home) Record Your Entire Primetime Lineup We’ll Show You How Brought to you by 1 YOUR REMOTE CONTENTS 15 TIPS YOU’LL LOVE — Pg. 4 From fi nding a lost remote, binge watching and The Hopper remote control makes it easy for you to watch, search and record more, learn all about Hopper’s best features. programming. Here’s a quick overview of the basics to get you started. Welcome HOME — Pg. 6 You’ve Made A Smart Decision MENU — Pg. 8 With Hopper. Now We’re Here SETTINGS — Pg. 10 DVR TV Power Parental Controls, Guide Settings, Closed Displays your Turns the TV To Make Sure You Understand Captioning, Screen Adjustments, Bluetooth recorded programs. on/off. All That You Can Do With It. and more. Power Guide Turns the receiver Displays the Guide. APPS — Pg. 12 on/off. Netfl ix, Game Finder, Pandora, The Weather CEO and cofounder Charlie Ergen remembers Channel and more. the beginnings of DISH as if it were yesterday. DVR — Pg. 14 The Tennessee native was hauling one of those Operating your DVR, recording series and Home Search enormous C-band TV dish antennas in a pickup managing recordings. Access the Home menu. Searches for programs. truck, along with his fellow cofounders Candy Ergen and Jim DeFranco. It was one of only two PRIMETIME ANYTIME & Apps Info/Help antennas they owned in the early 1980s. While AUTOHOP — Pg. 16 Displays the Apps menu. Displays program info. in a remote part of Colorado, an enormous Press and hold for help. TV ACTIVITY — Pg. 17 Back/Live TV gust of wind blew and ripped the antenna Press to return to previous menu. Arrow/Select Butt ons right off of their trailer and into a roadside GUIDE — Pg. 18 Press and hold to view live TV. Navigates you through your ditch. “There goes half of the company,” they Hopper experience. collectively thought. But fast-forward 35 years SEARCH — Pg. 20 Pause/Play later and you can see they not only survived Pause or play a live or but fl ourished, and they now serve millions of HELP — Pg. 21 recorded program. customers like yourself across our nation. Their Skip Forward/ VIDEO ON DEMAND — Pg. 22 Volume Skip Back success is attributed to remaining true to their and Mute Skip forward/back original mission in delivering a better home MOVIES — Pg. 24 Controls TV/AUX 30/10 seconds. entertainment experience by always putting the volume. Press and hold to fast customers’ needs fi rst. DISH ANYWHERE — Pg. 26 forward/rewind. Number Butt ons INTERNET CONNECTION — Pg. 28 Enters a channel number. Channel Navigates through menus Channels up/down. REFER A FRIEND — Pg. 29 and program guide. Navigates one full page in menus. DISH PERKS — Pg. 31 HOPPER MAGAZINE — Pg. 32 CONTACT DISH — Pg. 34 CHANNEL LINEUP — Pg. 35 2 3 7 You know that frustrating feeling when you can’t fi nd what channel the game is on? You’ll never feel 10 Tips that way again with Get real-time weather forecasts for 15 your area (or anywhere in the country) while Game Finder. Use Game Finder to get watching live TV with The Weather Channel all of the information app. It’s the weather forecast built around You’ll Love on your favorite your schedule. See page 12. teams from every major league and Bet You Didn’t Know Hopper Could Do That! Even If conference, all in one place. You Did, Here Are A Few Of Our Favorite Features. See page 13. By the Editors of Hopper Magazine STORE OVER 11 Your storage capacity is 2,000 beyond huge! You can store over 3 Netfl ix fans will love the fact that 2,000 hours of programming — that’s you don’t have to use a different remote or HOURS like 1,000 two-hour movies! switch inputs when using Netfl ix. Access OF PROGRAMMING Netfl ix from the app on the Main Menu, or simply go to Channel 370. See page 12. 12 14 8 It’s like Hopper knows 1 Lose your remote? Don’t worry. 4 Watch in one room, fi nish in Free movies anytime. You With DISH what you’re searching for. The Press the LOCATE REMOTE button on the another. It’s so liberating to be able literally have a movie library fi lled Anywhere you intuitive search functionality front panel of your Hopper receiver and in to watch your shows wherever your with hundreds of titles that are can literally built into Hopper makes a few seconds the remote will begin to beep life takes you with Hopper’s Whole- available to you whenever you watch TV and it seem like Hopper to help you locate it. To turn off the feature, Home DVR. You can start a movie in want. And the best part is that access your knew what you were press and hold the button and your remote the family room and fi nish it in the most of these movies are free. Just recordings searching for. Enter will stop beeping. bedroom and never miss a minute. access Video On Demand. and Video a few letters and See page 22. On Demand you’ll immediately anywhere. It’s get a list of options. an amazing You can search by title, 2 Binge-watching feature. actor, sport and more. is awesome! See page 26. See page 20. It’s so easy to spend 9 a day, night, weekend ? — whatever — just 5 Help is always camped on your couch available (via screen 13 Don’t 15 Rest assured that you binge-watching. overlays) to quickly 6 Your programs are always know what are in complete control when Hopper organizes learn more about recorded — ready and waiting for to watch? it comes to setting up viewing Hopper’s many features. © 2015 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. Credit: Andrea McCallin DVR recordings and you — with PrimeTime Anytime. Start with the restrictions for On Demand programs by season and You can also get step- You’ll never miss the awards, big Home screen. programming by-step tutorials by episode. When you fi nish an episode, a game, political debate — really No need to squint when trying to Here you can and apps on accessing the Help pop-up screen will appear showing the whatever is airing on ABC, read the Guide screen. You have fi nd program the Hopper. feature via the main next episode available to watch. It’s like CBS, FOX and NBC during options when it comes to the font recommendations and more. See Parental menu. See pages 21 & you barely even have to move (OK, not sure primetime. Plus, you can skip the size being displayed. To make the See page 6. Controls on 34. that’s a totally good thing, but you get the commercials with AutoHop on font size larger, see page 18. page 11. idea). select shows. See page 16. 4 5 Need Help? Press and hold INFO/HELP HOME on your remote control. Home Is All About You The Home tab is, seriously, all about you. It’s your starti ng point to quickly fi nd what’s on now and see what’s coming up later. Shows, Sports & Movies These content tabs that appear at the top of your main screen are organized so you can quickly fi nd the programming you are searching for. If you are looking for sports To Access options, click on the Sports tab. The Home Screen Press the HOME button on your remote control. There’s No Place Like Home Judy Garland’s sequined ruby red slippers were the key to getting her back to Kansas in the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz. Consider Hopper’s Home tab something similar, as there’s no place like Home when it comes to seeing all of your recordings and recommendations gathered in one spot. But speaking of those ruby slippers: A total of four pairs are known to exist. One’s on display at the Smithsonian, another was acquired for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ QUICK TIP! planned museum, one pair was stolen in Use SKIP FORWARD and SKIP BACK 2005 from the Judy Garland Museum in buttons on your remote to navigate Grand Rapids, Minn., and the location of through the Menu, Home, Shows, the other is unknown. Sports and Movies tabs. 6 7 MENU Consider the Menu as the control center of the Hopper. This is where you To get to Menu, double click on your remote control. navigate through your content opti ons, personalize your setti ngs, manage your account and more. First, let’s get you familiar with how Hopper is set up. What’s Hot PrimeTime Video On DVR Guide Netfl ix The top of the screen serves as your orientation guide. See what Anytime Demand Access and Find out what’s Seamlessly The gray box shows what content category you currently are in. everyone is This exclusive Select from manage all of on now and transition watching. What’s feature lets you thousands of your recorded what’s coming from DISH Hot shows the record every movies and content. DVR up. The Guide programming most watched primetime show popular TV allows you to provides a full to your Netfl ix programs on on ABC, CBS, series. From New record up to listing of all of account without a local and FOX and NBC Releases to Free 2,000 hours of your channels.