Dish Hopper

[Yesfan70]

"The Hoppa"
"The Hoppa"
"The Hoppa"


Love that commercial. took me a couple of times to figure out what the F they were saying, but then cracked up. The grandma in the basement slays me.

I saw it too. Hilarious! :laughing-lettersrofl:

 

[Yesfan70]

They waved my hundred dollar fee because I'm a 10 year customer. I do have to shell out like $160 for the receivers though...

That's what I'm going to do when I get ready to upgrade. I got 50% knocked off my second 722 receiver when I upgraded the HT to HD.

 

[mzpro5]

Here is the DBSTalk forum first look at Hopper

http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=203714

 

[Yesfan70]

Here is the DBSTalk forum first look at Hopper

http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=203714

Great read! Thanks for the link.



Well, seems the "6 tuner" feature Dish mentions in their ads is nothing more than a single tuner recording the 4 major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, & Fox) at once during prime time. This explains why a second hopper is needed for more than 4 TVs. What I'm still confused on is the Hopper really has only three tuners, but it can feed 4 TVs before having to get a second Hopper. :think:

I'm wondering if it's just cheaper to keep what I have and just split the boxes to different rooms using HDMI splitters and such. That still has limitations, but if both boxes are in single mode, then I might could live with it. Granted, it's still two tuners at one time when watching live content, but I would have 4 tuners when it comes to recorded programming.

The biggest thing is seeing how much I would save staying with two 722 boxes and splitters vs a Hopper and 4 Joeys. Obviously the Hopper/Joeys gives me more options, but the $195 in fees is what I don't like. I don't know if that extra amount is going to give me that much more than what I already have.

 

[Batman]

Yesfan, the 3rd Joey on the 1st hopper can only piggy back off of the DVR or the content being viewed on the other 3 units (hopper or joeys 1&2)...

 

[Yesfan70]

Yesfan, the 3rd Joey on the 1st hopper can only piggy back off of the DVR or the content being viewed on the other 3 units (hopper or joeys 1&2)...

Had a response, but never mind....I get it now. The main TV is hooked to the Hopper. All the remote TVs need Joeys. :doh:

 

[mzpro5]

Yesfan, the 3rd Joey on the 1st hopper can only piggy back off of the DVR or the content being viewed on the other 3 units (hopper or joeys 1&2)...

Had a response, but never mind....I get it now. The main TV is hooked to the Hopper. All the remote TVs need Joeys. :doh:

With the DTV whole home Mom has one DVR and two non-DVR receivers. She can watch recorded shows on any TV and otherwise all the receivers are independent of each other.