Well I had the Hopper 3 and 3 Joey's 2.0 installed on Feb 3, 2016. The Dish Tech said I was the first on the Outer Banks to order a Hopper 3 and this was his first time installing. Arrived around noon which was in the time estimate and stayed about 2 hours. Everything went fine with the install, it was only afterwards that I had some problems. I was amazed that the Tech did not know anything about the Hopper 3! Said he was told that a part of the dish had to be replaced and depended on the download to do most of the heavy work!
Noticed that Download Software for the new Hopper 3 ran twice to populate the new Hopper.
Kept the remotes and glad I did as I had a backup on the old 40 remote that I used.
Noticed that when I have to reboot because something is not acting right, it goes thru 2 reboots: No Signal first, then Hopper 3 reboot with low definition, Hopper 3 reboot with high definition, No Signal next, Hopper 3 reboot with low definition, Hopper 3 reboot with high definition until it gets to screen 535 finding a signal. If this last doesn't move off the 10% within 5 minutes (as it says), must reboot again! Usually takes 5 minutes to reboot, but sometimes as long as 15-20 minutes!!
Was able to hook up the old 40 remote with the Hopper 3, & it worked well. But can I hook up both the 40 remote and 52 remote at the same time? Couldn't find a way to do it!
Waiting for Dish to repopulate with all the standard pics and downloads and will report on that later. All in all, probably 90% happy! Hopper 3 is certainly faster and more powerful, and think I see a minor picture enhancement for the old Hopper 2!