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dish makes a deal with Disney and k-cups get more complicated I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update if you are a DISH Network subscriber you won't be able to auto skip commercials on ABC primetime shows until three days after the program airs this major change in the controversial autohop feature is a result of an agreement dish made with Disney and by restricting the ad skipping feature dish also gets the perk of streaming disney-owned programming online and that includes ESPN here's why this is a big deal dish shook things up back in 2012 when it introduced the hopper DVR that would auto record primetime shows from the four major broadcast networks and then automatically jump over the commercial breaks when viewed the next day the four networks were not happy and took dish to court for this technology because it could hurt advertising revenue they said programs dependent on those commercials well dish stood by the auto hop feature all this time until now dish cracked while renewing its agreement to carry Disney's networks dish made an exception on skipping commercials for ABC so Disney dropped its lawsuit with dish and in the process dish also gets to stream Disney network programming online now this could be a giant leap forward and how we watch live TV over the Internet that is if dish can also make deals to stream other networks online you won't be able to use bargain price competitor cups in new keurig coffee machines coming out later this year green mountain coffee roasters is the company that owns the single-serve Keurig machines said that it's coming out with new Keurig machines that have interactive readers programmed to only work with Keurig licensed k-cups so it sounds like if you want to pick up off-brand unlicensed cups you have to hack your coffee machine yes I just said hack a coffee machine we're officially in the future folks moving from coffee to xbox microsoft is adding videos to its music streaming service xbox music Microsoft wants to stream the video star Xbox music will have 92,000 music videos and it will automatically play that video when the matching song is streamed Lodge Tech makes a really good all-in-one smart remote control but now it's coming out with a similar device in the form of a keyboard the harmony smart keyboard is a universal remote in the form of a full-sized keyboard for controlling most of your living room devices because now set-top boxes and smart TVs often have prompts to type in a password or search for programming so instead of spending ten minutes picking through a virtual keyboard with arrow keys this can make your life a little easier that is if you don't mind spending a hundred fifty dollars on a wireless keyboard that adds to the living room clutter that's your tech news update you get more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey