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    Dish no longer taking AMEX?

    Nice tip. Last month AMEX was there on the drop down, this month had to do that work around. Weird.
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    pip basics....

    I discovered this same little trick the first time I tried to watch a recording in progress. I usually like to begin watching football games about 30 minutes late so I can blow thru commercials. When I left the recording and came back, I had two choices... Start at the beginning or at "live"...
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    Question... Now that you have had your Hopper

    1. What are your favorite features on the Hopper/Joey?.....My TV in the bedroom with a Joey is now usable. With the VIP722, everyone just kinda went "pass" which was just as well since gave me my PIP functionality. Now they watch TV in there as if they were in Family Room and that's a...
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    My Hopper Self Install Story

    Just going to update... I saw this thread about self install which attracted me to this site so I figured I'd just chime in on this thread instead of making a new one... Anyway, for anyone that reads or is told by Dish "you can't install a hopper yourself", that is completely false. It IS...
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    My Hopper Self Install Story

    Oh, okay. Sorry.
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    My Hopper Self Install Story

    Actually currently running one cable to the 722. Haven't taken the cover off but it has 3 lnb's and says dp plus so I'm pretty sure it has the 3 out and one incoming port on there so I was going to run the 2nd cable myself to the #2 port on the solo node. Dish was installed about 3 years ago...
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    My Hopper Self Install Story

    I'm replacing a vip722. I bought the hopper w/ sling, a solo node and a joey. I have rg6 running from the dish to the vip722. So if I run the two cables from the lnb to the solo node, and the rg6 from the host port and to the hopper, client port to the joey, is that it? They are so adamant...
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    Hopper Upgrades

    Hi. I would like a PM from a DIRT member to discuss upgrading my 722 to Hopper.