Dish teams up with Amazon Echo's Alexa to let you channel surf hands-free

Dish is getting serious about voice control. The company just announced that you can now use Amazon Echo's Alexa to control any generation of a Hopper DVR or a Wally satellite receiver. That's great news for Dish subscribers who missed out on the company's homegrown voice control remote released last July because they lacked a Hopper 3 DVR. We first heard about Dish's plans for Alexa during CES in January. Amazon's Echo is versatile and powerful; it's a terrific value all around.