Recent content by kwintsommer

Tonight I tried to record a movie. Instead, my Hopper recorded a different movie while claiming it was recording the intended movie. To add further injury, it refused to stop recording said incorrect movie so that I might reclaim my tuner and manually correct the issue. What follows is a two...

Today I experienced desync. Watching CNN the audio began to lag the video by at least a full second. Amusingly, if I hit [pause] the audio would keep playing for a second or so after the video stopped. Hit [play], the audio would wait a second or more before resuming. The pauses seemed to...

Got S213 overnight. Now, using the guide results in the picture getting stuck in the little window mode requiring a "red button" reset. On a positive note, it seems to have fixed a couple of timer issues. It's nice to finally be able to watch an active recording and have it acknowledged as...

Same here. Exited the guide and was stuck with the little window. It took a "red button" reset to get things back.

I am posting to say that I just this very minute experienced an example of this. :-/ This issue combined with a few others, most notably, the tendency of my box to intermittently declare that I do not have the right to view my own recordings is making me increasingly malcontent.

In response to trying to watch a recording made this very evening: "This is a subscription channel which has not been purchased." The show is Futurama and I have in fact purchased Comedy Central so why can't I watch said recording? To add insult to injury, it then went ahead and marked the...

I took the plunge Friday and almost instantly wanted my 211k's back. I had them refined down to a science with a network of HDMI switches and IR repeaters delivering a delightful dual-tuner experience in every room (with PC support to match). As quickly as I soured on the Hopper this forum has...

That's an excellent solution! Thank you very much. And now for something completely different: While scrolling through the Hopper's guide (holding [down] to be specific) the usual allow/deny recording prompt appeared. Unfortunately my cursor remained on the guide display. Try as I might, the...

Worked fine before but now they both consistently fail around the time of peak power consumption? The engineer in me speculates that they're being overly sensitive to voltage drops. Energy saving feature meets real world energy use and failure results. That said, my Hopper is running S212 and...

That is how it works in theory. In reality, it presents the option of resuming but from the very beginning with a time-stamp to match (in this case 1:50). Out of curiosity, I just tried and it once more reset my movie but failed to do so with a shorter TV episode. Actually a bit more testing...

My Hopper continues to refuse to acknowledge either of the EHD's from my VIP211k's. Forget about legacy files, despite verifying their integrity with my PC it refuses to recognize that either have been so much as plugged in. A FAT32 reformat did not improve the situation. Moving past that, I've...

My apologies, they were vip211k's and I explicitly asked DISH about the issue prior to upgrading. :/ Still, if it comes down to reformatting them, so be it...still, not the installer, nor either of the techs I chatted with online nor anyone I spoke to, at great length, on phone support felt the...

I was told it is already a "known issue" but since I don't see it in this thread: My Hopper utterly refuses to acknowledge any USB 2.0 EHD's I plug into it. As of this morning I had a pair of vip211k's both with EHD's in good working order. Neither of those drives are so much as acknowledged by...

I expected two hopper integration to be fairly simple and work like this: One is the master and one is the slave. All joeys connect to the master hopper (that's up to six Joeys plus lets call the slave Hopper three more data channels, all told that's a max of nine HD data streams which is well...

I just got off the phone with DISH. I'm a customer of 3 years, out of contract looking to replace two VIP211k's with a Hopper and Joey. I was initially told it would be $300 + $15 installation with a 24-month contract but after a few rounds of chats and a few calls and finally escalating the...