Recent content by FogNoggin

OP here. My new Hopper3 was installed yesterday. I played with it all day. Do you wanna know how fast it is? It's exactly just as fast as my Hopper1 was when I first got it 5 years ago. Seriously, to the best of my recollection the Hopper1 was just as peppy back in 2012... then it was updated...

Not in this case. If Dish had left the "classic" UI on first-gen Hoppers I may have kept mine forever, or until I needed 4K. It's all many people need. There's no new compelling feature in the upgrade, it's all about style. I think Dish has an enormous warehouse full of H3's they've got to move...

OP here. I don't care about the money, it's the absurdity of it all. I was a happy customer paying a $12 a month for an "old" DVR. No thought of leaving. Then Dish screws it up. I've never experienced anything like it. Hey, I'm gonna love the Hopper 3. I probably should have upgraded sooner.

I tried not to. It was either pay for the upgrade, suffer with the crippled Hopper1, or walk. Walk to what? What's better? Cable always offers me some every enticing 12-month rates, but cheap don't make it good.

I feel your pain. I willingly installed the new UI a couple of weeks ago. I'm angry but beaten. I'm having a Hopper 3 with new Joey's installed on Monday. When you can't beat 'em, pay $100 for a Hopper 3 with a new 2-year commitment. Believe me, I tried the angry and disgruntled longtime...

Dish wins. I'm a beaten man. After suffering with the new Hopper interface for the past two weeks, I ordered an upgrade to the Hopper 3. $100 and a 2-year commitment. I can't explain how slow my Hopper is now. I press the DVR button to get to my recordings and it takes a FULL 7 SECONDS for that...

Just finished an online chat with Dish. I got the expected offer to upgrade to the Hopper 3 for $100. I'm so angry. I've been 100% satisfied with Dish for almost 10 years. Now they burn me by remote control overnight and I don't even have a choice in the matter. What do you call a "cord-cutter"...

I know this isn't a new topic, but I only downloaded the upgrade 24 hours ago so I'm still in shock. I've gone from perfectly happy to disgusted. My Hopper 1 is now a slow sluggish relic of what was cutting edge tech only 5 years ago. It's not unusable, it's insufferable. My Hopper is now the...

Since having my Hopper installed last November I've reset the broadband connection many times and it always connected without fail, 3 greens. Now I can only get 1 green. Something has been broken by an update and we'll all just have to wait for the fix. I have S238 software. Meanwhile my...

I just upgraded from a single TV and the VIP612 to four TV's with the Hopper and three Joeys. I AM THRILLED. :) Forget about the whole-home-DVR experience. That's great, but the Hopper alone is magnificent. I highly recommend the Hopper even if you're a one-TV household and don't need any...

I just upgraded from a single TV and the VIP612 to four TV's with the Hopper and three Joeys. I AM THRILLED. :) Forget about the whole-home-DVR experience. That's great, but the Hopper alone is magnificent. I highly recommend the Hopper even if you're a one-TV household and don't need any...

I have 2 teenagers, 4 of us total in the house. We've all been sharing a single VIP622 with it's 2-tuner limitation and a single TV. We now have 4 HDTV's but all will never be running at once and we're almost always watching recorded material. I do have one question, does the PTAT utilize any...

Thanks for confirming my experience. I've never spoken with a service rep that was in such a hurry to complete a call. She didn't try to up-sell me anything. ;-) The 3 Joeys are all bedroom TV's so 1 Hopper should be enough. It'll certainly be a huge upgrade from my current 1 DVR setup.

I'm posting to tell all, that upgrading to Hopper right now will cost you $65, maybe. The phone call to request this was more than a little confusing. I requested an upgrade from my VIP612 to 1 Hopper and 3 Joeys. The customer service rep didn't ask me any questions at all or offer me any...

Ya' got me. My neighborhood was once an apple orchard.... about 60 years ago!