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Huh? You start a service and they're giving you free streaming of competing service?

Malaria shot?

What are current hoppers and what is diff between hopper 3 and hopper duo?

Well, not quite like in 1966, but it still follows with the broadcast nets.

All I can say is that on attempting to help someone out with his tv and he had the 54, I was dumbfounded at what I saw as a regression in both user-friendliness and simply build quality. Compared to the "classic" 20s I found it cryptic just to navigate menu screens and the like, and it appeared...

What is hopper duo? 722 is a duo; isn't hopper a solo-user box, that you have buy another box to run to for a 2nd user? Doesn't the new hopper do sling?

But maybe they could say they don't sell them anymore so you have to lease

I found something out about Hopper 2 https://news.satnews.com/2023/09/18/stoke-space-hopper-2-has-landed/

They even sent a replacement 722 for owned one. 'Course I'd better review the bill to be sure they aren't now sticking me with a leasing fee or something

nope...

Wouldn't they just send a swapout replacement? At least you won't be trying to get a 722 out of them

I think it's paywalled. From what I could glean before it blanked out, it seems that DiSH's contract with Disney is very loosey-goosey about what constitutes a "subscriber" and allows for even someone not registered with Sling and only watching sling's free content to be considered a...

https://mashable.com/article/how-to-stop-smart-tv-from-spying-on-me-disable-automatic-content-recognition

I serviced a radio station to keep them getting Rush Limbaugh. They were just using a home-type dish