In a Monday announcement, bigwig cable provider Dish Network said that its new Hopper digital video recorder (DVR) with Sling technology is now available in the US markets.

The new Dish Hopper with Sling HD DVR brings aboard Sling Media place-shifting to the first-generation Hopper DVR, while retraining the original Hopper's most notable features which - as per a last-year statement by PCMag Consumer Electronics Analyst Will Greenwald - include "extensive storage, multiple tuners, and reasonable price."

About the new Hopper with Sling, Greenwald has said in his full review of the device that while the new DVR features the noteworthy technology of the first-generation Hopper, it is quite like a full-fledged Slingbox that has been brought aboard the satellite set-top box, so as to allow the users to watch TV on a horde of additional mobile devices, anytime and anywhere they want.

According to the details shared by Dish Network about the new Hopper DVR, the device comes with Sling technology on board, for encoding and redirecting either a live or a recorded TV signal from the DVR to Internet connected mobile devices - smartphones and tablets - running the Apple iOS or the Google Android OS.

Noting that the Dish Hopper with Sling HD DVR "redefines how customers think about their pay-TV experience," Joe Clayton - President and CEO of Dish Network - said in a statement: "No other provider can offer the experience that is now available to our customers anytime, anywhere."