VIP Receiver Retirement

blatimer1983

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I heard VIP receivers will no longer be activated on New or Existing Dish accounts effective January 16, 2018 which means the last day to activate will be January 15, 2018. Is this true?
 
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I heard VIP receivers will no longer be activated on New or Existing Dish accounts effective January 16, 2018 which means the last day to activate will be January 15, 2018. Is this true?
That is my understanding. So, on January 14, 2018, I will be contacting Dish to reactivate my old ViP612. By the way, the deadline only applies to ViP DVRs. ViP211/ViP211k/ViP211z are not on the chopping block, yet.
 
That is my understanding. So, on January 14, 2018, I will be contacting Dish to reactivate my old ViP612. By the way, the deadline only applies to ViP DVRs. ViP211/ViP211k/ViP211z are not on the chopping block, yet.

I’m sure the other VIP receivers will be next to be phased out especially when Dish works out the bugs in Wally receivers. I’m not sure!!
 
The new Hopper Duo May be called Hopper Lite, but I’m not sure.
There are two trains of thought on that. First, Dish may have simply eliminated the Hopper Lite name. (never saw the light of day) The other thought is that Dish may be saving the Hopper Lite name for a bundle deal of a Wally with an external hard drive, providing the same basic functionality as the Hopper Duo, but without the monthly DVR fee.
 
There are two trains of thought on that. First, Dish may have simply eliminated the Hopper Lite name. (never saw the light of day) The other thought is that Dish may be saving the Hopper Lite name for a bundle deal of a Wally with an external hard drive, providing the same basic functionality as the Hopper Duo, but without the monthly DVR fee.

I’m sure Dish will have to come up with some plan on January 16, 2018.
 
Actually, none of the Hoppers Hop over commercials like they used to, since Dish has made deals with the networks to screw the customers out of the skip mode.
Get a TiVo Roamio OTA. They skip the entire commercial on networks and some other channels within seconds of the program ending.:clapping
 
Our Hoppers automatically skips the commercials on the big 4 prime time networks just fine.
 
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