Dish Continues 4K Content Expansion With Multiroom Netflix on 4K Set-Tops
After announcing a deal with Fox to deliver select NCAA college football games in 4K (see 1709210022), Dish Network continued filling its Ultra HD content palette Friday, announcing a multiroom 4K Netflix streaming via its flagship Joey set-top box. The…
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box connected to a Dish Hopper 3 DVR can support six 4K Joey STBs, bringing the number of supported 4K TVs to seven, Dish said. Users can find 4K content, identifiable by “4K” or “UHD,” via the Netflix app on the Dish remote control or in the programming guide, it said. The 4K streaming is exclusive to Netflix since Dish doesn’t offer Amazon apps on its set-tops, a Dish spokeswoman said.