CES: Dish Pumps Up a Big Hopper
Las Vegas — Dish has dropped a chunk of change on some primo real estate here at CES to prop up a gigantic, inflatable kangaroo.
It’s to promote Dish’s new multiroom DVR, the Hopper (the client set-tops are “Joeys”) — which the satellite operator brags is 40% smaller than DirecTV’s latest multiroom DVR box (see CES: Dish Adds Whole Home DVR, CES: The Dish Hopper DVR’s PrimeTime Anytime: So Who Needs Hulu? and CES: Dish Poised To Unveil Wireless Broadband Plans, Multiroom DVR: Reports).
Here’s a pic of the mega-marsupial, which sits directly in front of the main entrance to the Central Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center:
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Todd Spangler commented:
I was hoping Dish would hand out plush kangas at their booth! No such luck. My kids were more impressed with the combo slot machine/pencil sharpeners I picked up at McCarran than the Hopper keychains.
jtombes commented:
They also dropped some small change on 'Roo tschotskes, one of which which became my lil' keyboard buddy in the press room.
leslie e commented:
nice update from the giant 3-story mean-faced inflatable pig in '04!