Dish Partners With Amazon To Bring Echo And Alexa Voice Control To Dish DVRs

Amazon's Alexa has made it onto a lot of platforms in the past year and its latest jump will make it easier to find your favorite movies or TV shows. Satellite TV provider Dish announced Monday its digital video recorders can now be paired with Amazon's Alexa in the home. The feature, which is available on Dish's Hopper or Wally DVR models, allows users to give voice commands to Alexa from the Echo, Echo Dot and Amazon Tap to control their TVs. Functions can be used across Dish's live, recorded and on-demand titles and also work with Netflix's catalog. Through Alexa, users can control the playback of a show with functions like time skipping, rewinding, pausing and restarting programs.