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    Simultaneous video outputs from Hopper and or Joey?

    Yes, unfortunately it will need to be separate coax for modulated SD.
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    Shared Playback with hopper and joey?

    Can we do an IP multi-cast? I think this is just the kind of application multi-cast is desgined for. (I know that the Hopper isn't a Cisco device, just trying to think of how it could be done in a regular IP environment.) Essentially the hopper just sends the same stream to two devices at once.
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    Shared Playback with hopper and joey?

    Open floor plan with a Plasma TV in the living room and a LCD TV on the kitchen counter across the room doesn't seem like too many TVs. Someone making dinner or doing dishes can watch the same thing the person sitting at the dining table or on the couch 15 feet away are watching. Actually more...
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    Shared Playback with hopper and joey?

    Well, I am getting tired of having to read hundreds of threads to figure out what the Hopper can really do. I just pulled back up the manual, and it is silent on this issue and many, many others. ("Join" only appears in the Hopper manual once, in a help box.) And a lot of people on this forum...
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    Shared Playback with hopper and joey?

    OK, really frustrated that this thread exists adn that there are not clear YES answers. I have two TVs on the same floor, completely across the large open room from each other (way too far for HDMI + splitter) and was expecting the "join" was going to make the one that joined a slave and...
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    OTA Update?

    I do see setup scenarios where you really want the OTA for weather - some TVs cannot be connected to OTA due to single coax run for MOCA, for example. Also, nice to be able to use the Hopper and Joeys to show the same radar feed in multiple rooms. And I may want to rewind a local broadcast if...
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    Cheapest package to have a separate VIP receiver account to get OTA

    A lot of us are just waiting for the OTA module. I am very disappointed it will only be a one-tuner OTA module, but better than nothing.
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    No gigabit ethernet?

    This just ticks me off. Yes, streaming Blu-ray takes less than a 100MB link, but we still put 1GB NICs in our PCs and NASs. Some of need is related to the bursty nature of IP networks, especially the internet. For good performace we specify several times the average bandwidth we think we...
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    What TV to put Hooper on?

    Well, my 622 is in my home theater rack, and I am NOT going to put a Hopper there. Since I only use the HT occasionally I don't cool it like the rest of the house, and have killed a few 622 hard drives when I left the HTPC running with the door closed... So if you only need one Hopper, I would...
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    3 tuners don't last long?

    Depends on how useful the PTAT feature is in reducing the need for more tuners. Not sure how I feel about it, but PTAT is Dish's gamble...
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    The Hopper installer has arrived let the fun begin!

    I thought you had to buy the Hopper/Joey in order to be able to do that - not allowed for leased receivers? I bought my first one (5000) back in the 1990s when Dish encouraged self-install, but the current ones just die too often. Course the Dish installers see my setup and they just act like...
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    So whos NOT getting a Hopper due to lack of OTA?

    No go for me without OTA - two tuner OTA at that. And I am really tiring of Dish, to be honest (after more than 10 years). My 622 feels ancient and no new HD channels in what seems like forever. If UVerse was a little cheaper and supported more HD streams, I would be in that forum now instead...
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    Answers to your Hopper Questions

    I won't go to a Hopper until OTA is ready, and (despite 10+ years with Dish) I am a flight risk (UVerse or TWC) until that time due to my unhappiness with the 622's functionality...
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    Hopping from a 922 to a Hopper...no Joey

    Mine as well, although I have two HDTVs fed via HDMI (HDCP compatible HDMI splitter and in-wall HDMI between floors). I don't have the component in use any more, but I have a similar component to ethernet function built into my receiver, if I ever want a remote HDTV in the house... I hate to...
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    Hopper/Joey IR?

    One remote on coffee table, one on kitchen table, and another on kitchen bar counter. Beats walking around looking for the one true remote all the time... (Heck, even have a Harmony 890 pro, such that have four remotes handy)
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    Why Wait?

    I really want to keep that SD home distribution. Has been part of my config for years.
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    First Hopper and Joey Photos posted by engadget

    BTW, anyone but me think there are not enough rear USB ports on the Hopper? USB OTA + Sling Adapter = no available USB ports in the rear? Sure there is one in the front, but I think there should have been four in the back. I rackmount my DVR, so using the front is messy at best...
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    First Hopper and Joey Photos posted by engadget

    Timing. My bad. I hadn't seen Scott's post yet.
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    First Hopper and Joey Photos posted by engadget

    If we are just adding tuners via USB, can I get a unencrypted QAM USB tuner as well? :cool: (I get the feed by default with my TWC wideband internet (30mbs), and my many attempts to get OTA working well have fallen short due to my location near downtown Dallas skyscrapers.) ...Yeah, I know it...
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    First Hopper and Joey Photos posted by engadget

    And no OTA probably means I leave Dish after more than 10 years...
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    Dish Hopper site is up at Dish.com

    I don't think so. One of the three tuners if tied up recording the Primetime Anytime feature. But during non-primetime you could record three...
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    Dear Dish: Please add AJE

    Let me concur with this thread - I want Al Jazeera English on a main Dish Network satellite. I can already access via Roku Newscaster, but I pay for Dish Network to bring me channels I want - and I want this one. E-mailed Dish already, but they move very slowly.
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    MLB network

    Has anyone tried MLB on the Roku? I think some of that is in HD, which on the Roku would be up to 720p...
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    Dish Requiring Tech To Come Out ($29 fee) To Replace 1000.2 LNB

    I just bought a 1000.2 and the LNBs from a sponsor for $107 shipped. Yes, could have been cheaper to have Dish send a tech, but I would have wasted time away from work meeting him and then 2+ hours explaining my complicated setup. Worth the difference for me to be able to do it myself...
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    Scheduled recordings lost due to "No signal" OR funny tech story

    I have 2 HDs the same way... No problem with that. Sounds like a problem with either signal strength or the switch. Post some mid-range transponder numbers (12/14?) from all the satellites you are pointed to on BOTH tuners...