Questions about The Hopper?
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No is hasn't. It's the same as the 922. I have the Hopper side by side with a 722k in our show room. Really no differnce. It's the HD munus and guides that make it looks so much sharper.
Gotta ask - did you try the skip back function? Does it work better than on the ViP722s and other ViPs?
That's good news and thanks for letting me know. If I disable PTAT, I then get 6 tuners to use for whatever I want. I think I read that normally the HD is partitioned to use 1TB for PTAT and one for the other tuners. If PTAT is disabled, does the full 2TB become available for "my" recordings? I'm still trying to figure out whether to try to upgrade my DirecTV system to the HR-34 or switch to a Dish/2 Hopper/2 Joey setup. (It's a trade off: DirecTV has GOL TV, but Dish has the Grateful Dead channel on Sirius.
)thanks.
joe.
That's good news and thanks for letting me know. If I disable PTAT, I then get 6 tuners to use for whatever I want. I think I read that normally the HD is partitioned to use 1TB for PTAT and one for the other tuners. If PTAT is disabled, does the full 2TB become available for "my" recordings? I'm still trying to figure out whether to try to upgrade my DirecTV system to the HR-34 or switch to a Dish/2 Hopper/2 Joey setup. (It's a trade off: DirecTV has GOL TV, but Dish has the Grateful Dead channel on Sirius.
thanks.
joe.
No, if you disable PTAT you will have 3 tuners. The Hopper only has 3 tuners. ( I am assuming only one Hopper.) Also if you disable the PTAT you still only have 1TB. Dish keeps the other half no matter whether PTAT is disable or not
If I go with Dish, I'll get a 2 Hopper system, and 2 Joeys. Shame about the other 1TB, but it's still a massive upgrade from the 200GB or so that I have on each of my current pair of DVRs.
joe.
LOL funny. We can just use a box from another customer and fill out an RA form and let the office lady deal with it =D
Can someone please tell me if they have closed captioning working on their hopper? I turned it on with defaults and it is not working. Please let me know! Otherwise, this is a great system!
Working for me.
I was wondering why I can't pause all 3 tuners so I can watch 3 live shows and skip commercials when the buffer fills up. I can pause 2 but when I try the 3rd it says "must be live". I guess I can record them than switch around but than I would need to clean it all up (delete them).
I have a question regarding hopper fees and upgrades.:
Currently I have 3 TVs.. 2 HDTVs and 1 SDTVs. One Vip722k and One Vip211k receiver. Paying $6 DVR + $7 (2nd HD receiver), subbing to AT250. Been with Dish for only since Oct 8th, 2011
How much more or less will I have to pay if I upgrade to hopper deal?
Thanks!
Currently I have 3 TVs.. 2 HDTVs and 1 SDTVs. One Vip722k and One Vip211k receiver. Paying $6 DVR + $7 (2nd HD receiver), subbing to AT250. Been with Dish for only since Oct 8th, 2011
How much more or less will I have to pay if I upgrade to hopper deal?
Thanks!
If OTA is a must for you, then yes, you need to wait. OTA support supposed to be in work. No confirmed date though.
Thanks.. didn't realize the hopper doesn't support OTA yet.
Anyway, I am just reading up on this.. just wondering if the Joeys are able to connect via Ethernet only?
I have a room that doesn't have any Coax cable but it has a Ethernet CAT5 run from the living room. Right now, the only way to watch TV is through a computer+monitor via Ethernet only via SlingAdapter.
