DISH 2016 CES Press Event
- Thread starter Scott Greczkowski
- Start date
- Latest activity Latest activity:
- Replies 545
- Views 59K
True - it may get some tech-savvy Directv customers to switch though. Same with cableco customers. Most of them are, in case you've seen the commercial, "settlers". They grew up with cable and have always had cable and don't give any thought to other options. Certainly can't drop cable and switch to "the dish" because "it goes out when it rains".
Some guy who says he is an installer on the dish forum says they already have a whole warehouse full of them. I just got off the phone with my warehouse they have 0.
I hope they do, Believe me!
It just sucks the setup I currently have will require a Huge Upgrade, and I don't see Dish Giving a 6 month customer a Hopper 3 with 3Joeys at a reasonable cost.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk
I'm lucky I own 1 of my hoppers and all of my joeys so I can turn them on and off at will. And I didn't upgrade my hopper 2000 just incase something happened this year at the CES and look what happened. I'm always the unlucky one, with cell phones all technology I get it then something new comes out.
Maybe, maybe not, but it might keep up retention. Although the Hopper already rocks.
16 tuners WoW that nice but it all ready a BIG useless paper weight as the spec don't show any listing for HDMI 1.x, And sad part is the new Dish Hopper 4k along with Joey 4k you need all new a TV or Monitor that support 4k and has to have HDMI 2.x port and I wouldn't be at all surprise if some of premium channels will req HDPC 2.2 support in order for them to work.
To me this going to be a big failure unless you got income to burn on all gear.
To me this going to be a big failure unless you got income to burn on all gear.
Neither the H3 or 4K Joey actually requires a 4K TV. Both will work fine on regular HDTVs.
You can ship pallets of these, anywhere in the country, in less than (7) days. There's no hurry... Then again, supposedly the 4K Joey was to be available by mid-month and someone alluded to the fact that the 4K Hopper would be at the same time, so if that's the case, they could be on the way to some and already delivered to others.
Isn't HDMI backwards-compatible ?
Wrong
See first answer
Take that up with the channel providers, not Dish.
Yes, HDMI is backwards compatible. They don't need to list every single previous spec. 
You just won't get 4k channels without HDMI 2.?? support.
This really has me tempted. I'll give AT&T a few months to see if they can counter this sometime this year.
You just won't get 4k channels without HDMI 2.?? support.This really has me tempted. I'll give AT&T a few months to see if they can counter this sometime this year.
I will happily sign a new 2 year agreement for a H3 upgrade. My old school Hopper is starting to show it's age and 16 tuners should be enough for my 2 TVs.
No not alway 100% backwards-compatible as problem could be TV firmware that it keep from working rigth.
Beside Dish didn't have any notes to backwards-compatible with 1.x so there if the chip spec HDMI 2.x transmitter only good luck with that.
Guest what all the channel providers start doing, on the non premium channel
Give it a rest. HDMI is by definition and spec backwards compatible. Dish cannot make it incompatible with earlier versions. They handshake to determine which spec is common to all.
Besides, it's been posted that it works fine with today's HDTVs.
Besides, it's been posted that it works fine with today's HDTVs.
