DISH is not forcing anyone to upgrade to Hopper, but for those that WANT to upgrade to Hopper they will be able to. 
DISH Hopper coming at CES ?
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I will be upgrading to hopper after i hear what there offer is to current subscribers is and still will get one
Scherrman said:
I have a 922, but I still have my reservations about the Hopper. There were too many empty promises with the 922 to trust that they will quickly have an OTA tuner for the Hopper. Before the 922, I had the old 921. I've been burned many times by being an early adapter with Dish. I might just wait this one out four awhile.
Yes I know, but considering they have been around for years, and the VIP series are newer, I would suspect they wont be going away anytime soon.
I think what he meant was that if 322's, etc. are still in play, the later gen VIPs won't be going anywhere soon.
What does Dish have against all cities without HD locals? Not only do they not give us locals in HD but they charge us the same price as those with HD. Then we payed extra to put up an OTA antenna to get HD locals. Once we do that , Dish comes out with a new receiver that doesn't allow OTA for HD locals. To rub salt in the wound ,they invent a new way to record all the locals at once but only if they are in HD. Triced screwed and not loving it!!
I can't get the animosity. There are other providers, if your that upset with Dish vote with your pocketbook and switch, it's just TV.
Do you really think Dish is trying to screw you? Come on. Dish wants to carry locals in every market.
Scott's been pretty consistent that this will happen for the hopper/joey via a USB tuner. It's just a matter of Dish selecting one or more of the devices they are currently testing.
It won't happen at launch, but the hardware already exists for USB tuners. No reason for dish to delay it forever.
Sadly customers that require OTA should probably wait to do any upgrade (or switch providers if you're that unhappy).
1 word DRIVERS. They should choose 1 or 2 to get behind due to the fact it takes drivers for them to work. Let's face it, it's a Linux PC in a little box and to add a tuner you need to have the right driver.
How about a combined functionality question...
Say I use two Hoppers to get the number of tuners required in my application; does the second Hopper use the now redundant hard drive space to duplicate the Prime Time Anytime programming? It seems the intelligent way to manage this situation would be to defeat the PTA drive space allocation on the second Hopper, thereby giving the combined system 3TB or recording space for all other tuners.
Say I use two Hoppers to get the number of tuners required in my application; does the second Hopper use the now redundant hard drive space to duplicate the Prime Time Anytime programming? It seems the intelligent way to manage this situation would be to defeat the PTA drive space allocation on the second Hopper, thereby giving the combined system 3TB or recording space for all other tuners.
With two hoppers, you would certainly disable PTA on one of them, so that would be automatic.
But that wouldn't necessarily return the space normally set aside for PTA on the second box to "user" space.
My guess is the space will remained reserved for PTA on both boxes. I would bet Dish will err on the side of redundancy and an attempt to make sure PTA doesn't require any thinking on the user's part. If the "primary" hopper is down, the secondary should kick in and record PTA. They couldn't do this "blindly" if they have to worry about the secondary hopper drive being full of user programs.
I hope this is the case, but I haven't seen this directly addressed, that the second Hopper could be set to free the majority of the drive space for general use.
