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3HaloODST said:

Actually it's three tuners, six channels with PTAT. Plus two Hoppers would have twice as many tuners.

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chaddux said:

Gotta love that Dish Network logic. Yes, you can record six channels but four of those are restricted to ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox. The Genie can record ANY five channels. If you want to record, for example, History Channel, A&E, and ESPN all at the same time, you're screwed with one Hopper.

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3HaloODST said:

Well basically it all boils down to your needs. The main factors are price and programming. Which provider has the channels you want for the price you are willing to pay? Then, it's the equipment.

I've had Dish for many years with the exception of having U-verse for 7 months. I've always been pretty happy with Dish, other than their disputes, price hikes and generally awful phone support.

Well more and more providers are having disputes so that's pretty well beyond my control. The price hikes, while they suck, most of the time Dish is just responding to everyone else's price hikes, so can't do anything about that other than switching every two years which to me isn't worth it. DIRT took care of the phone support issue (at least for those of us that know about them.)

While the Hopper may be a tad anemic with the tuner count, it makes it up with faster speed, more hard drive space, better interface, and other things like PTAT, AutoHop, Sling and better EHD support. It's just overall better technology. I personally like having multiple Hoppers for redundancy, and the ability to keep separate timers/recording lists. That way there's no fights about hard drive space and tuners.

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3HaloODST said:

Well basically it all boils down to your needs. The main factors are price and programming. Which provider has the channels you want for the price you are willing to pay? Then, it's the equipment.

I've had Dish for many years with the exception of having U-verse for 7 months. I've always been pretty happy with Dish, other than their disputes, price hikes and generally awful phone support.

Well more and more providers are having disputes so that's pretty well beyond my control. The price hikes, while they suck, most of the time Dish is just responding to everyone else's price hikes, so can't do anything about that other than switching every two years which to me isn't worth it. DIRT took care of the phone support issue (at least for those of us that know about them.)

While the Hopper may be a tad anemic with the tuner count, it makes it up with faster speed, more hard drive space, better interface, and other things like PTAT, AutoHop, Sling and better EHD support. It's just overall better technology. I personally like having multiple Hoppers for redundancy, and the ability to keep separate timers/recording lists. That way there's no fights about hard drive space and tuners.

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charlesrshell said:

The only thing with Dish I don't like is the initial cost for customers that want three or more DVRs. We should not have to purchase the third or more DVRs. Also I wish they had switches that can handle everything. For three or more Hoppers you need two nodes, two switches, etc. Direct has them Slim switches that can do it all.

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3HaloODST said:

Agreed. Also the 1-Joey-per-Hopper thing can be irritating to new customers.

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3HaloODST said:

That's why you get two Hoppers, genius.

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