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Dish Network plans to offer programming online at www.dishonline.com starting Tuesday. The new...

Dish Network plans to offer programming online at www.dishonline.com starting Tuesday. The new site marks the beginning of the company “tying the set-top box and PC together,” said Bruce Eisen, vice president of online content development and strategy. The site…

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will offer some TV free to all and other programming only to Dish subscribers, he said in an interview. Users will have to log in at the site. Subscribers to premium packages will be able to watch programs from them and those subscribers with lesser packages will be told they need an upgrade to watch them, Eisen said. Users will be able to filter content searches by actor. Clicking on an actor’s identification will result in a listing of all shows and movies available on the site and programming that will be on TV in the user’s market, he said. Subscribers can run their DVRs and watch live TV over the website using Sling technology, made by Dish’s sister company EchoStar. Sling users can already watch their programming online, but the new service puts everything in one place at the new website, Eisen said. Subscribers can remotely choose on-demand movies to download to a set-top box, he said. Video-on-demand to the PC won’t be available Tuesday, but “stay tuned,” Eisen said. The online programming won’t be available for smartphones or tablets, but that should change “shortly,” he said. Smartphones and tablets such as Apple’s iPad have more-complex technological and licensing requirements because of the number of makers, Eisen said. The video industry and viewers of online video will have a “big problem” without net neutrality rules, he said.