Maybe the red lite!
Hopper 3
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Interestingly enough, if you go to the Dish website tonight to sign up for new service, they aren't offering you the ability to get a Hopper 3 through the web sign-up page. Only the Duo for exceptional, good, and average credit, and either the Hopper 1 or HWS (they don't seem to specify) for those building credit. Wonder what's up with that.
There's still a shortage of Hopper 3's possibly. I wouldn't ever sign up for service through a web site anyway. I'd always want to talk to someone - American preferably - to make sure I get all my questions answered
Contact your local retailer if you have a good one.
We've got plenty of Hopper 3's.
We've got plenty of Hopper 3's.
I read somewhere on the internet (googled things may be obsolete by 2020) that hard drives may become obsolete moving on to cloud storage. I’m concerned about this because the internet is not fast enough in some areas. Hopefully, the internet will be a lot faster by 2020.
The same day as Easter this year? April Fools day and Easter fall on the same day.While the Hopper 4 is in testing it is expected to be released on April 1st.
The same day as Easter this year? April Fools day and Easter fall on the same day.
I suspect the Easter Bunny will be the only hopper arriving on 4/1.
I wasn’t exactly sure if it was DVR capable. So it’s basically a 722k with the new interface(and faster hardware of course)?
No. It Looks like a wally, has the new CUI and uses a Joey (Any kind've Joey) at the 2nd TV. Hooks up like a Hopper with a Hybrid Solo Hub, and uses DPP OR Hybrid LNBF and has a 500GB HDD
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. Spinning hard drives still have a lot of life left in them. Capacities continue to grow, but not as fast as SSDs, but SSDs that can be re-written constantly like a hard drive are very expensive. Where I work, we still buy about a petabyte of spinning disk drives every year since we do not need the speed, just the capacity. Right now, we are buying 10TB drives, but I expect we will move to 12TB or larger by the end of the year.
I suspect the article you read suggested hard drives may be obsolete in your laptop/desktop computer by 2020, and I would agree with that. I would say they are obsolete now IMHO. For a DVR though, hard drives are the best solution available for the foreseeable future, especially given the downsides of cloud DVRs and simple fact that so many people do not have good high speed Internet access across the world.
The same day as Easter this year? April Fools day and Easter fall on the same day.
How very appropriate.
If it’s not a April fools joke already it’s a good day to release a new hopper . We can change things around . The new receivers will have more pastel colors and hop on down the bunny trail. Just hope it doesn’t lay a egg 
I remember my first 1 GB hard drive. There was a special jumper setting to make it look like two 500 MB drives so DOS could see it. I have been build pCs since before MS DOS and haven't used a spinning hard drive for a boot drive for at least 5 years.
I have been wanting a larger hard drive since my first Hopper arrived. I filled the drive in a couple weeks. My 2 TB drives have been full ever since and I have a collection of external drives. Right now I think 8 TB is the sweet spot.
The red light no longer makes sense with PTAT. But I miss it too.
I have been wanting a larger hard drive since my first Hopper arrived. I filled the drive in a couple weeks. My 2 TB drives have been full ever since and I have a collection of external drives. Right now I think 8 TB is the sweet spot.
The red light no longer makes sense with PTAT. But I miss it too.
Here's a pretty good Hopper Comparison chart for anyone interested.
The Hopper 4 officially will be called Hopper X. It will have a poo emoji app added and an improved rear camera.
The chart shows that the Hopper3 will support 71 TV's. Is that correct?
Would that be used for apartment complexes? How would that be wired? With only 16 tuners + PTAT + OTA not all 71 TV's could view independent content.
Would that be used for apartment complexes? How would that be wired? With only 16 tuners + PTAT + OTA not all 71 TV's could view independent content.
That's 7 TV's. The little 1 is for a reference to a footnote that apparently isn't on that page of the chart.
