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hello I'm the Westlake cocina here at CES 2013 we're taking a look at the dish hopper with sling a very very exciting update two dishes kangaroo flavored hd/dvr so let's start off with just a couple of hardware refinements this new box has a faster processor so everything should happen we're just a little bit more snap to it and you get Wi-Fi as well which means you don't have to fiddle around hooking the box up to cables as you may have guessed from the name this has sling box built into it and that means that you'll get all of your live channels plus everything on your DVR on your mobile devices phone laptop tablet anywhere you have an internet connection but what if you don't have an internet connection I know it's a troubling thought but a new feature for this box called hopper transfers means you'll be able to save recorded shows onto your iPad for offline viewing that's good news if you've got a long flight coming up or a lengthy car journey and you've got kids in the back who you want to keep entertained do keep an eye on file size though because if you've got one of the lower capacity iPads you could very quickly fill it up once you start transferring TV shows over sticking with apps for a moment another new treat for iPad owners is the dish Explorer app now this is basically an app that shows you what's on TV and it's going to have a social element as well so TV shows that are trending on Twitter or Facebook are going to bubble to the top it should give you recommendations things you might want to watch next it's coming out in the next month it's going to be free for new dish subscribers but if you're a current customer there's a chance that you'll be able to nab yourself a tasty upgrade deal I'm the West wait to see net and this is the dish hopper with sling you