Dish Anywhere adds profiles for personalized recommendations
Even though Sling TV has kept Dish extremely busy over the past few months, the company hasn't forgotten about its core user base: the satellite service customers. As such, Dish let it be known today that it is bringing some new features to Anywhere, the companion app subscribers use to stream live or on-demand content, control DVR settings and more. The main highlight is a new feature that lets each user in a household set up their own profile, complete with a name and icon, among other things. Most importantly, though, this makes personalized content recommendations possible, since they are based on personal viewing habits -- rather than what everyone in your family watches.
In addition to that, profiles also allow every person in your account to customize separate Watchlists and Favorites, while the administrator(s) can now pay the bill from inside the application. These changes are rolling out to those of you who have the Dish Anywhere app on iOS, Android and Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets.
