Recent content by duke02

Good point about the programming being variable but I'd like to eliminate as many sources of inaccuracy as possible. It's not a huge deal but was interested if anything was possible

Any ideas on how to calibrate the picture from the Hopper? I think HDNet used to air calibration patterns but I think that's stopped. I'm assuming there's no software functionality in the box itself for this?

Exactly what I did. I hope I wind up liking Dish more so I don't have to switch back, but I now feel like a sucker for not starting this whole switch earlier. To the OP, when I was considering the HR34 vs 2 hoppers, aside from the fact that DTV wanted to charge me $499 for the HR34, the biggest...

Thanks for the insight. In thinking about this further, I'm wondering if I could use the 1st hopper as a bridge and connect it via ethernet to the router and then use the HIC as the access point in the bedroom.

So here's my setup. I have my living room downstairs hard wired for ethernet to my modem/router in my office. My living room ethernet connects to the HIC which then connects to the hopper in the living room. My other hopper is in my bedroom and connects via MoCA through the HIC back to the...

What?? You have to pay if their equipment craps out? That's ridiculous. Do you have to pay to fix it if you have the protection plan?

In my 2 weeks I've had to resort to RBR a few times. Good news is that it doesn't take nearly as long to reboot as the DTV equipment I had. It was a full 5-10 minute endeavor each time

Honestly, I have no idea - I never tried. To me, you can always fast forward through a fully recorded show but if it isn't recorded, there's nothing you can do on playback. It sounds like from the posts above that you can select it to record the whole show, but IMO think recording the whole...

I often wind having a too-complicated setup because of my ideas. I don't think it would be too difficult for Dish to program this though as long as each receiver has the ability to interrogate the other as to tuner status. The receivers already do that I believe and also have the ability to...

I just did the opposite - left DTV for Dish. Ultimately DTV wanted to charge me $400 to upgrade my equipment to the HR34 from my current crap which was 5 years old and slow as molasses. I had been out of contract for 3 years but continued to pay. They also would do very little for me on the...

Wait, so let me get this straight - if 10 minutes into a show I decide "hey this is something my wife would want to watch" or "I want to keep this", I can't just hit record and have it record the whole show? I have to rewind to the beginning and then hit record? That's crazy! What is the...

It's definitely nice that you can see both sets of recordings on each hopper but it would be better if you could view them all as one big list. Also, It would be awesome if each hopper could allocate tuners amongst each other. In other words, if Hopper 1 is scheduled to record 4 things and...

Directv is the same way, which is why I switched to dish. I expected the same treatment from dish when my contract is up but in the meantime I get the better deal. The way it seems to work with dtv and dish is that in order to get the best deals you need to switch every 2 years. I think they...

Apple envisions new cloud DVR, social space in set-top box | Apple - CNET News If implemented properly - this would crush any DVR out there now

I basically said - " I just had dish installed this weekend and would like you to consider an adjustment." when I called the other day. Today when the first call center person said "our promotions change all the time" I told her to transfer me to customer loyalty because the original person...