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I'll have to have a look once it's replaced. I thought issue with caps is that they dry out

Can hopper install to same dish & cabling as ViP?

So now with the hopper you just plug in a USB device to do offair? I always found those DiSH insertable offair modules to be subpar in reception

I feel that they have a service dept. that can replace bad caps. I used to do it myself on the Toshiba 80 & 100. But these aren't going down from caps, but rather hard-drive fails?

Good q; I assume DiSH doesn't install offair antennae because they went the satlocals route. But then again, they integrate offair tuning into systems. But still this is roof or even tower work, which they don't do

But I've heard a lot of griping about hopper. Does it require a talk-back link to DiSH? Also I'm highly unimpressed with the remotes they've put out for those. Oh, I see from other thread the older ones will work with...intersting

Why? Is that what's brought this one down? Can you replace them with something? I just don't see them "shutting off" running ViPs with no technical need to do so. Not installing for new service I get that. Also I doubt they'd turn away business from a self-installer who buys one on eBay and...

I called them in large part to see how they would do. I was prepared for the Hopper push, and clearly 99% of callers in my position would have been suggested or railroaded into that. I was prepared to source one from the resale market but after all of the wrangling which really took me back in...

One of my 722k's is flaking out, intermittently freezing and restarting, so I called in to get it swapped out. The rep said that my system is "obsolete" and that I should upgrade to Hopper. After making clear I want no Hopper, she said she had "sent her strong signal" to my ailing receiver. I...

But doesn't music require a lot of dynamic range? At least classical & the like? So there has to be allowance for some highs without attenuation, and some lows without boosting. It seems there needs to be some kind of a universal median level that all sources can register to, that still allows...

So I guess then that between ch. 215 (wx) and 192 (ID) or one of my sat locals, 215 is one way and the other 2 are the other?

Wasn't there a law passed a long time back mandating service providers level the sound from one ch. to the next? Or was that just for within any single given ch., and not letting commercials be boosted? Regardless it's a pain on DiSH with some ch's way louder than others, and having to jockey...

AK is on the North American continent, but conus has long been understood (usually) to be just the 48. Some conus coverages have taken in AK or part thereof.

I hope it was worth it to c to be a total hypocrite and walk on others to in his mind get ahead

Can't you upgrade service (hardware change/add'n) at no charge at any time, just extend out 2 yrs required from date of upgrade, even if already in contract? Compared with streaming, cable and especially satellite gear and interconnections are cumbersome in (and on) the home. DiSH has only...