Questions for the Dish Tech Team?
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PTA will in not affect Nielsen ratings. It's done by diaries and boxes in homes.
That is correct,but I was thinking outside the box.Who would have thought the Hopper could record PTAT to begin with?.So going outside the box maybe someday DISH might be able to offer it OTA for better HD PQ.
Until that happens if at all I would be content to have dual OTA tuners like the MT2 in the 722k,so with the Hopper that would give me 3SAT+2OTA tuners to choose from.
i believe you need to watch a DVR event along with the commericals in the first three days or it's not counted. Haven't seen anything about 7 days. Usually 7 days is mentioned for marketing purposes.
And even then, you only directly count if you are one of the select Nielsen households. If you're not actually one of those households, then you're statistically represented within that group.
(Of course my information is from around last summer. Haven't kept up with any changes to the Nielsen system since then.)
Not to Nielsen though and that's all who matters when it comes to show ratings. Dish may use the numbers internally.
Well I have thought about it for awhile and really PTAT is really a great idea,an idea that could result in the replacement of the 2 OTA tuners in the MT2.But that's where it ends because without a dual tuner module connected to the Hopper your really not gaining any extra tuners to record during the Primetime hours,even though it records everything from the big 4 in Primetime, and as we all know alot of new satellite programs also come on during the Primetime hours,but they also repeat those programs alot of times at a later hour in the guide.Now maybe the Hopper is so high tech it would know to record the satellite programs at the later hours in the guide,or maybe just use one tuner for recording and leave one tuner for live viewing,which for my viewing would be the perfect situation.
But I do know my 722k/wMT2 is going to be one hard receiver to beat,at least for my viewing preferences.
But I do know my 722k/wMT2 is going to be one hard receiver to beat,at least for my viewing preferences.
Here's one:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-ne...pper-spec-sheets-post2754844.html#post2754844
...and another...
http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-ne...opper-coming-ces-post2754197.html#post2754197
and...
http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-ne...hts-leaving-dish-post2754141.html#post2754141
well...
http://www.satelliteguys.us/2012-co...30-more-pics-ces-post2751925.html#post2751925
So, the answer is yes.
http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-ne...pper-spec-sheets-post2754844.html#post2754844
...and another...
http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-ne...opper-coming-ces-post2754197.html#post2754197
and...
http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-ne...hts-leaving-dish-post2754141.html#post2754141
well...
http://www.satelliteguys.us/2012-co...30-more-pics-ces-post2751925.html#post2751925
So, the answer is yes.
But as most of us know, Dish buys that service elsewhere and has no direct control over it's accuracy. Be nice if they put a little pressure out, though.
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watching that video from CES, the gentlemen shows how you can move any recorded show from PTA to your DVR archive, so yes. My question is will I be able to hook up my current EHD that is connected to my 722k to the hopper without losing any of the recordings already on there? or will it need to be re-formatted?
As most of us know, even though the correct information is available, Dish still shows incorrect data, or no data at all, for many OTA channels.
Even when I Had a digital converter box and an OTA antenna, I had epg information on all ota channels except the sub channels. I do believe. the digital broadcast now carries the epg information embeded in the signal. I could be wrong but how would an old govt issued run of the mill ota box have free epg info?
The EPG data is imbedded in the OTA data by the station and is thusly notoriously non standard... so it is almost unusable for recording purposes, this is why ALL carriers use an outside source for guide data rather than the EPG broadcast by the station.
