Dish opens up the Hopper DVR to help developers build smarter, more useful TV apps

Smartphones and tablets have endlessly customizable interfaces, but sadly we're usually stuck at the mercy of remote controls that have no awareness of context when we watch TV. It looks like Dish is trying to change that -- the company has just opened up the APIs for its Hopper commercial-skipping DVR platform to "select" mobile app developers. Essentially, this means that some third-party app devs will be able to built controls for the Hopper right into their apps, something Dish is hoping wil...