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Monday, 5 January 2015

Dish is bringing 4K video and Sonos-like multi-room audio to its set-top boxes


Dish's biggest news here at CES is unquestionably its newly announced internet TV service, Sling Television. But there's pretty great news for Dish's paying satellite subscribers, too: 4K is coming. You'll need a new set-top box to play ultra high-def video: the Ultra HD Joey will be released this summer. Dish will offer 4K content through a video-on-demand deal with an as-yet unnamed partner. Movies and shows will be downloaded over satellite to the hard drive of the main Hopper in your home and transmitted to the Joey over a MOCA connection. Since 4K downloads can take some time (even with compression), the Hopper will automatically cache new titles you might want to watch.


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