Dish touts new 'Auto Hop' commercial-skip feature | TV and Home Theater - CNET Reviews: "Auto Hop" is an extension of the Hopper's PrimeTime Anytime capability, which has to be manually activated and sets the DVR to automatically record every night the four major networks' prime-time programming in HD. The shows are stored for eight days after they've aired, creating what Dish calls "an on-demand library of approximately 100 hours of primetime TV shows."