Recent content by dishdude

If it's too good to be true...

Of course it's not legit. Dish has sued some of the companies selling these boxes but I haven't seen them go after users yet. I wouldn't chance it.

Maybe the incident one out of Chicago :biggrin

SD is unwatchable on anything other than a CRT.

Are they even making any new Hopper 3's? I'd think they're just sending refurbs out at this point.

That's my setup, a Wally runs to all TVs in the house. With streaming and OTA, there's no need for every TV to be tuned to a different Dish channel, this isn't 2005.

I still say the Wally is the way to go. They're only $60/ea, the second one is $5/mo and after the one time DVR fee, no other monthly fees. Uses the same LNB as the 722 and connects up like all the old school Dish receivers telstar is familiar with. It's as close to the Dish experience in 1997...

My Wally has been very sluggish lately. I hit the skip ahead button and nothing happens for a couple seconds.

I didn't realize the "Fall TV Season" was still a thing.

If it's crashing and rebooting, it's usually the caps. Pull the cover and see if any are bulging.

That's the biggest issue with them.

It won't take long, once you get used to it the 54.0 is a great remote.

Well....I can tell you why :biggrin I had two 50.0 remotes paired to a Wally. Used one of them to go into sys info and pair the 60.0. The 60.0 immediately assumed the identity of the 50.0 I went into the sys info with! Same name, same TV brand. Problem is, it also caused the other 50.0 to do...

So I had to buy one, this thing is much bigger and much heavier than expected. Haven't set it up yet.

Yes and if you add the OTA tuner it gives you 4 tuners to record from. Poor man's Hopper.