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seandudley

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Hey everyone.. I have a 2 hopper, 4 joey setup. As I understand it, Dish it working to make the hoppers function as one unit so all of the DVR recordings will show up together, all of the tuners will show up together, and all of the scheduled programs will show up together.. Is this correct? Assuming it is, does anyone know of an estimated date of when Dish will be rolling out this ability?

Thanks.

Sean Dudley
 
No one knows when or if it will ever be available, or if it is even being worked on anymore. They threw customers a bone by allowing Hoppers to see each other, so that might be it.
 
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Considering that DirecTV's DVRs don't even have "full" integration I'm not sure that Dish will even bother.

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don't assume anything with Dish unless you actually have it in your hands today... same goes for any cable/satellite provider.

There was some indication many months ago that the two hopper system could evolve, but nothing new has been rumored or shown up.
 
I'm not sure I want full integration. What if you have recordings on one that you don't want others to see. Adult content with children in the house.Now you can move the content to the ehd and the other Hopper can't see it.
 
dwarren2 said:
I'm not sure I want full integration. What if you have recordings on one that you don't want others to see. Adult content with children in the house.Now you can move the content to the ehd and the other Hopper can't see it.
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I personally doubt it will ever be available....but in the event it is perhaps there will be deactivation or parental control switch.:coffee
 
I do believe Scott had stated that Dish did, in fact, plan to release the Hopper with full integration with other Hoppers on the network and it was functioning as so during the Beta, so Dish can do this tomorrow, if they want. But I also remember Scott posting that shortly before release, Dish decided to implement a limited integration for Hoppers because they or testers felt that full integration presented and overwhelming experience of far too many recordings to wade through, especially when a user had to wade through tons of others users recordings. I can certainly see that being a problem in some households.

However, I think that Dish should offer Full Integration as a personal preference feature to be enabled or disabled so that some households that want the power of 6 tuners with ONE central DVR experience, they can have it and use the Personal Folders to organize recordings by each member of the family, although Dish would need to enhance the current Hopper Folder feature to be more that like that of the ViP's. Also, full integration would allow for creating timers and other functions from any Hopper. I have been a situation a few times where I wanted to set timers, but I was using the other Hopper. A bit of a pain. Then limited integration would be enabled by the customer for situations where they want certain family members to have their own Hopper to mess with (the teens) and mom and dad never have to mess with all those "Wizard" shows, as the dad from the DirecTV ad says.

Both types of integrations should be a user choice because both types a good depending upon the household and they want the Hopper system to behave. Dish, GO for it!
 
The beta that was run with some of the guys on SatGuys did NOT include full DVR tuner integration or any sort of enhanced integration. The integration was and is the same as we all currently see on our Hoppers.
 
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I do believe Scott had stated that Dish did, in fact, plan to release the Hopper with full integration with other Hoppers on the network and it was functioning as so during the Beta, so Dish can do this tomorrow, if they want.
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No I did not say that as I would not talk about beta software that I am testing.

However the only place I remember full integration being discussed was when we were first described the products and that was at a team summit event or CES.

I have learned that sometimes what we are told when a product is not released yet is what they hope to do with a product is not necessarily how a product works when it is released to the public.

Sometimes what should work in theory does not always work like it should when they go to implement it.

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DishSubLA said:
I do believe Scott had stated that Dish did, in fact, plan to release the Hopper with full integration with other Hoppers on the network and it was functioning as so during the Beta, so Dish can do this tomorrow, if they want. But I also remember Scott posting that shortly before release, Dish decided to implement a limited integration for Hoppers because they or testers felt that full integration presented and overwhelming experience of far too many recordings to wade through, especially when a user had to wade through tons of others users recordings. I can certainly see that being a problem in some households.
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Even though Scott already corrected your memory, if it is true that having a fully integrated DVR list would be too overwhelming, a list view would fix that. ;)
 
Dish probably figured out that very few people would ever want a Joey if the Hoppers could do everything a joey could do, plus add tuners and recording space. Little or no difference in cost no reason not to get the Hopper.
 
lucky86 said:
The beta that was run with some of the guys on SatGuys did NOT include full DVR tuner integration or any sort of enhanced integration. The integration was and is the same as we all currently see on our Hoppers.
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