Let me start this post saying im SO SICK of this new update.
I haven't been really active in this forum since I was a dish newbie, 2 years ago or so. I loved dish. Coming from cable I thought my Hws and super joey were out of this world cool. Really didn't mind playing my bill each month! Now I'm beyond frustrated. I have lag, like everyone else, and miss some of the old features or button shortcuts.
My number one issue now though I don't see others talk about. My dvr recordings get "cut off" or stop about 25-30 minutes in for an hour show maybe 30% of the time for an hour long recording. Only seems to happen on non prime time shows. Or I recorded a 3 hour baseball game and the recording stops maybe an hour in. Or like today I set a timer for the home run derby hours before it's started, it's records the show, but when I watch it it's just a black screen with no sound. I can fast forward the whole 3 hour recording but it's just black. This recording issue happens often enough that it's becoming a big issue.
Question: will the Hopper 3 make all my problems go away? Does the lag issue go away? Will it be at least as snappy as my hws with old update felt?
What about my recording issues I'm guessing hopper 3 will make this go away too?
My wife is the primary on the account and she hates the idea of signing a new 2 year contract. She feels like dish should fix our current boxes or give us hopper 3 boxes with no new contract. I know how cable companies work and I know that dish customer service won't do anything to help my experience other then tell me to reset the box. I can also figure that dish won't give us hopper 3 boxes with no contract extension. So I'm just at a loss at what to do, don't want the wife to freak out.