I am guessing that with the kangaroo logo, and the 'hopper' and 'joey' names, that they will announce that these will be available to subscribers on 'leap' day - 29 February. That seems like it would tie in perfectly for an advertising campaign.
Remember if you need more tuners, just add another Hopper Box to your setup and it will automatically add itself to your network.
You can have 1 hopper and 8 joeys if you want. Of course you will be fighting over tuners, but if you don't watch all the TV's at the same time it might not be an issue.
ok here is more about Hopper that I have heard... This is not official information though so please keep this just as a rumor...
Built in Sling
Remember if you need more tuners, just add another Hopper Box to your setup and it will automatically add itself to your network.
So, is the 3rd sat tuner dedicated to the Primetime Anytime feature, or is it available to be used on any sat channel when Primetime Anytime is not in use? If it is dedicated to only spotbeam/conus locals tp, then we are back down to only 2 sat tuners for non-local channel recording.
But I'm understanding that the 3rd sat tuner will only be used for primetime anytime, whether an OTA tuner is included or not?With an OTA it's three assuming it has OTA. Recording all the networks certainly makes more than two tuners less needed though for the vast majority of people......
If no OTA tuner I would lose the sub channels that I get now to be able to record. Still have to sort out what the real benefits are, but as someone said certainly sounds intriguing.
I took this as in a limit of one hopper and 8 joeys per account .
of course the prices are yet to be seen if its same as a duel dvr then it make the cost per tune very high.
Daughter's disney/boomerang/teennick/cartoonnetwork/hub etc.
wife's HGTV/BIO/BBCA/GSN/TVland/IFC/ION etc.
my RSN/Spike/TruTV/ID/Sci/NHLN/NFLN/ESPN/BTN/HIST etc.
Just to name a few. Plus most of our dozens of timers are content-based dish pass searches (keyword, actor/actress, etc), so the channels that get picked up are all over the place.
We only watch 1 or 2 broadcast network shows a week consistently.