Recent content by thebrewman

I am not clear on whether the wireless joey is possible with the original hopper since I only have 1 ethernet port. Is it compatible with this hopper ? thanks

All the HD alternates are blacked out in St Louis

Having people over for a get together and put the cardinals cubs game on here in St Louis and it is only available in SD (checked all alternate channels and none available). So thought we would put the Blues game on and it also is SD only. This is probably the final straw for me with DISH, very...

I just took the HDMI cable from the DISH to my receiver and replaced it with one that was labeled as high speed HDMI and removed the optical cable and now I have DD 5.1 from the hopper. The cable must matter and that the original one was an older generic one.

I had my hopper system installed on Saturday and before the installer left he indicated that I should use the optical connection on the hopper to get better sound, I thought HDMI does DD so why would it matter. I too only got DD 2.0 on HDMI so I tried hooking up the optical cable and with the...

Tonights cardinals game is being shown in SD only (and very poor SD), no changes seen yet

I have 2 612s and one does this and the other does not, very annoying.