Attn Dirt, I need help with hopper upgrade

[Dylan Milota]

I am dish customer that is not under contract and I would like to get a free upgrade to the hopper 3. I have been a customer for about 4 years.

 

[KAB]

I am dish customer that is not under contract and I would like to get a free upgrade to the hopper 3. I have been a customer for about 4 years.

http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/hopper-3-upgrade-waiting-list.356994/

 

[tubetwister]

I am dish customer that is not under contract and I would like to get a free upgrade to the hopper 3. I have been a customer for about 4 years.

I was a Dish customer in good standing for 6 years and never a late payment with one VIP 722K DVR and one VIP 211K receiver and out of contract .

I got a real decent new customer offer for a double play from my longstanding ATT ISP for an ATT /DirecTV bundle . Dish would not match it or come close on the TV portion of the bundle price with virtually an identical upper mid tier channel package .

For my customer retention inquiry Dish TV would not do any equipment upgrades to the newer Hopper devices without substantial cost and monthly rental increases and a new agreement and would not match the two more rooms D*TV provided free . Dish TV wanted substantial 2 more room cabling charges for an ordinary simple job also above probably $300.00- $400.00 all total for a Hopper DVR and 3 room clients with a new agreement .

IIRC the Dish Hopper wired clients were 50.00 Ea and 100.00- 200.00 for the HR 54 and maybe 40.00 ea to activate but I could be off here so don't take this as accurate but it was some money , increased device rentals all around and by implication an increased mo. bill and not free and individual charges to wire 2 more rooms in an otherwise normal and ordinary installation that didn't take D*TV long for 4 rooms of HD which is the standard new customer offer there ,

The long and short of it my TV part of the ATT/D*TV bundle is $50.00 cheaper per mo. .with the new customer 2 year lock from ATT/D*TV and a $200.00 Visa reward and I picked up two more room's wired in and a whole house Genie HR 54 DVR and 3 wired room clients all at no charge at all and no monthly fees .

The net result beyond all that is a significantly better HDTV picture ( much better than I expected based on my years with Dish TV ) but also not a very good SD picture compared to Dish TV .and my TV portion bill at end of two years is estimated to be somewhat less than what I have been paying Dish TV for 2 rooms and the old devices whereas I have the latest D*TV devices ,two more rooms and a 2 year device upgrade privilege at no charge should the need arise but that is included in a $7.00 mo. optional prot. plan so it's not really a free privilege in the literal sense .


I don't watch much SD and I can get better SD than both D*TV and Dish TV have on IPTV and Hulu Plus anyway so no big loss . I prefer the significantly better HD picture on D*TV with much less MPEG artifacts ,better shadow detail ,lower noise floor and no posturization and color stripping on HD ,better dynamic range and color volume within 720p/ 1080p SDR and much better overall and sharper HD picture that is usually pin sharp up-scaled to 4K on my Sony XBR here but unfortunately a lousy SD picture on D*TV here so pick your poison and good luck getting anything free from Dish TV they wouldn't give it up for me maybe YMMV .


It would be nice if Dish TV had the D*TV HDTV picture and if D*TV had Dish TV SD picture ...........you can't win you have to choose what you deem acceptable and I've read some folks like the Hoppers at Dish much better anyway ?

..........Let us know how it all shakes out for you . ?

 

[Troch77]

I was a Dish customer in good standing for 6 years and never a late payment with one VIP 722K DVR and one VIP 211K receiver and out of contract .

I got a real decent new customer offer for a double play from my longstanding ATT ISP for an ATT /DirecTV bundle . Dish would not match it or come close on the TV portion of the bundle price with virtually an identical upper mid tier channel package .

For my customer retention inquiry Dish TV would not do any equipment upgrades to the newer Hopper devices without substantial cost and monthly rental increases and a new agreement and would not match the two more rooms D*TV provided free . Dish TV wanted substantial 2 more room cabling charges for an ordinary simple job also above probably $300.00- $400.00 all total for a Hopper DVR and 3 room clients with a new agreement .

IIRC the Dish Hopper wired clients were 50.00 Ea and 100.00- 200.00 for the HR 54 and maybe 40.00 ea to activate but I could be off here so don't take this as accurate but it was some money , increased device rentals all around and by implication an increased mo. bill and not free and individual charges to wire 2 more rooms in an otherwise normal and ordinary installation that didn't take D*TV long for 4 rooms of HD which is the standard new customer offer there ,

The long and short of it my TV part of the ATT/D*TV bundle is $50.00 cheaper per mo. .with the new customer 2 year lock from ATT/D*TV and a $200.00 Visa reward and I picked up two more room's wired in and a whole house Genie HR 54 DVR and 3 wired room clients all at no charge at all and no monthly fees .

The net result beyond all that is a significantly better HDTV picture ( much better than I expected based on my years with Dish TV ) but also not a very good SD picture compared to Dish TV .and my TV portion bill at end of two years is estimated to be somewhat less than what I have been paying Dish TV for 2 rooms and the old devices whereas I have the latest D*TV devices ,two more rooms and a 2 year device upgrade privilege at no charge should the need arise but that is included in a $7.00 mo. optional prot. plan so it's not really a free privilege in the literal sense .


I don't watch much SD and I can get better SD than both D*TV and Dish TV have on IPTV and Hulu Plus anyway so no big loss . I prefer the significantly better HD picture on D*TV with much less MPEG artifacts ,better shadow detail and no posturization and color stripping on HD and much better overall and sharper HD picture that is usually pin sharp up-scaled to 4K on my Sony XBR here but unfortunately a lousy SD picture on D*TV here so pick your poison and good luck getting anything free from Dish TV they wouldn't give it up for me maybe YMMV .


It would be nice if Dish TV had the D*TV HDTV picture and if D*TV had Dish TV SD picture ...........you can't win you have to choose what you deem acceptable and I've read some folks like the Hoppers at Dish much better anyway [emoji5]

..........Let us know how it all shakes out for you . [emoji5]

[emoji57]
I was a Dish customer for 7 months
And $50 is all they wanted to upgrade my 2 hopper 2 Joey setup.
That was including the installation.

So if you were out of a contract with VIP equipment they wouldn't upgrade you to a Hopper 3 for $50 or less?



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[MikeD-C05]

Upgrades also depend on you credit rating too. Different prices for fair , good, excellent and of course poor ratings.