How on earth is the autohop feature illegal? That's like saying using the 30 second skip button is also illegal. And I didn't know that Directv had a special system that never gets rain fade. When I had Directv my HD channels went out long before my Dish HD channels.
If the autohop feature is illegal then every dvr that has a 30 second skip or fast fwd is illegal no matter who the provider is. The networks are a bunch of cry babies anyway. Do they really want to make all dvr manufacturers do away with the 30 sec skip?