Well I haven't had a Hopper in about a year now but I still thought I'd chime in to this thread. I cut off my Dish bill last December and have been using a PC as a 4 tuner OTA DVR since then. The computer is in an office upstairs and I have been getting live TV the old fashioned way and using Plex and my Xbox One to watch my recordings on the main TV. I have been mostly fine with this setup and it even added some nice features like automatically removing commercials. It was a pretty good solution, especially because all it cost me was the price of 2 HDHomerun Duals.
Apparently my family didn't think it was user friendly enough though because they got me a Roamio basic for Christmas. They took advantage of the current $0 down offer. This gets you a Roamio basic for free but you are committed to paying $20 per month for service for 2 years. They paid the two years of service up front for me and it should be arriving at my house on Tuesday. After the two years are up I can look into lifetime or other service deals or upgrade to a new unit depending on current offers. Going this way saves about $30 over buying the Roamio for $150 from Amazon and then paying the normal price of $15 per month for 2 years.
I plan to setup a Tivo Mini in my bedroom eventually now that they no longer have subscription fees on them too. I'm also going to try it out as an all in one streaming device. I'm currently using an Xbox One for Amazon Prime and an Apple TV for iTunes season passes and rentals, Netflix, Hulu Plus, MLB.tv, HBO Go, and WatchESPN. It looks like the Tivo will cover everything but HBO Go and WatchESPN. I'll be curious how it compares to my current devices.