Good post. Soon the rate of "innovation" to stay ahead of the competition will speed up so fast the only viable sales will be snake oil.
Can you add more memory to Hopper 2 DVR boxes?
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I must consider that maybe the H3 does not have such problems as I see on the HWS.
I plan to write down a list of all problems and concerns. That might put them in perspective, and I decide to just live with them. But they hardly will encourage me to go with an H3.
I plan to write down a list of all problems and concerns. That might put them in perspective, and I decide to just live with them. But they hardly will encourage me to go with an H3.
But then he would lose his year or two programming on his EHDs...
I was in this boat when I went from Wally with EHD to Hopper 3. However, with the 16 tuners, I was able to find and record 85% of the shows that were on my old Wally EHD within a week.
But he has years worth of programming on his multiple EHDs. Most of that programming is, probably, no longer available....
He could burn it off onto DVD's or Blu rays. This can be done with an HDMI card and blu ray burner in your PC. Less than $100 investment.
We're talking years worth of programming. It would take an enormous amount of time to burn all that, not to mention the amount of discs it would take.
I went from a 625 straight to a Hopper 3 so I can't relate to your problems after being
burned by the CUI update. Your caution is understandable and I would probably be
cautious too.
That said...
I submit you and a few others are doing the H3 a disservice by saying or implying
the H3 has the same problems and it is buggy.
If it costs too much for the budget, that's cool.
It doesn't have all the problems you guys keep alluding to. Do you think all the H3
users here are lying to you about it's good performance?
Why would they do that?
So the problems you have been mentioning are what you have on the HWS, not what you've been hearing about on the H3? If so, that's where I've been confused because I haven't seen those issues on my H3. It seems very possible that those issues do not carry over to the H3 even though they have the same CUI. I was thinking you didn't want to upgrade to the H3 because you knew it had a bunch of issues that bothered you.
but it IS possible. and you can store quite a bit on a single blu ray. Just sayin'.
It would be faster and cheaper to get an H3.
The bonus is he would find out the H3 isn't broken as rumored.
Oh I'm not denying that; I'm just saying there's a work-around for almost everything.
It's hard for me to consider that the CUI code base isn't the same on both HWS and H3. But I suppose it's possible. But that would cut into the value of having a single code base to maintain.
I have terabytes of recordings. I have considered getting a Hauppauge and doing a little burning. Or at least transferring. But that would take as long as just watching the stuff. And discovering if the stuff recorded during free previews is even watchable.
I still plan, once I retire in a few years, to write a program to list the program contents on EHDs. Sure would make life a lot easier.
Programs, especially movies (chick flicks), important to SWMBO.
I have terabytes of recordings. I have considered getting a Hauppauge and doing a little burning. Or at least transferring. But that would take as long as just watching the stuff. And discovering if the stuff recorded during free previews is even watchable.
I still plan, once I retire in a few years, to write a program to list the program contents on EHDs. Sure would make life a lot easier.
Programs, especially movies (chick flicks), important to SWMBO.
There is no doubt a lot of shared code. Hell, it could be 90% shared and just have a small amount of unique stuff. There have been bugs that show up on the H3, then a few weeks later, after a s/w update, it shows up on the H2.... Then later it gets fixed on the H3 and a while later, fixed on the H2.
I use an HD PVR Rocket connected to the component out from the DVR.
Even if the code is largely the same, the configurations are going to be necessarily different due to resource differences. These config differences could expose weaknesses & bugs in how the code is written which are much more likely to show up on HWS and H1. It is up to Dish how they prioritize fixing things that affect only a subset of the hardware vs. all Hoppers, but I would guess they are going to be "below the line" for a while.
