EchoStar engineered DISH’s Hopper DVR has been nominated in the Best Customer Premise Technology category at the CSI awards. Image credit: DISH/EchoStar

[Satellite TODAY 08-12-13] Five EchoStar-engineered products have been selected as finalists in this year’s Cable & Satellite International (CSI) Awards. The CSI Awards is a technology competition that recognizes and rewards technological innovation in the cable, satellite, broadcast, IPTV, telco, Internet/online/OTT video, mobile TV and associated sectors. Winners will be announced at the annual IBC convention in Amsterdam on Friday, Sept. 13, 2013.

“To have five products nominated is a testament both to our engineers and to our wide-ranging capabilities for operator solutions,” said Mark Jackson, president of EchoStar Technologies, the company’s video and broadcast arm.

The top products include, customer premise technology, satellite contribution/distribution/transmission solution, content-on-demand solution, social TV technology, service or applications and mobile solutions.