According to this page on the dish site it says 8 tuners for H1 and H2 coming soon.
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8 timers H1 and H2
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They make it sound like they’re making a new revision of them which would just be new hoppers then. Otherwise they would have to upgrade everyone’s H1’s And H2’s or have even more pissed customers.
Just thought it was weird it was listed as 8
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The old list used to say 7. We had quite a thread going on that many years ago when PTAT was introduced.
The key is to notice the typical misleading marketing hocus-pocus here. Nowhere in those two shots does it say 8 tuners...it just says "watch and record 8 shows at once". They conveniently never tell you the circumstances and/or limitations on how you can do so. Most people unfamiliar with Dish equipment will look at that and think, "Cool it has 8 tuners" or just "Oh, I can record any 8 shows I want on any channel I want", when that definitely isn't the case.
Yes, years ago it would have been considered wrong (or lies). Today, it's normal, covered by fine print, exceptions, excuses, and so on.
Dish had been marketing the old Hoppers as being capable of recording eight shows at a time for quite awhile. They were not counting the OTA tuner at all, but they were counting the two additional tuners that would be added by a Super Joey. So actually, Dish was understating the Hopper's capabilities. Adding the single OTA tuner to that would give you nine shows recording at a time, with support for ten shows at a time coming soon. (4 PTAT on one tuner + 2 additional built-in satellite tuners + 2 Super Joey satellite tuners + 2 OTA tuners)
I agree. I was just stating what I saw in the weekly advertising flyers in the junk mail, before the Hopper 3 came out and they started marketing the heck out of it instead.
In a way that makes sense, but the Hopper was capable of doing that from the very beginning. I am pretty sure that at first Dish marketed the Hopper as being capable of watching or recording six shows at the same time, and the marketing didn't change to eight shows until after the Super Joey was introduced.
I seem to remember (6) as well. Even that many confused a lot of people as many didn't understand PTAT yet.
