I know they were real I have seen them before, but I don't think they were officially for sale.
navychop said:Those of us that are in grandfathered plans without locals might think twice about moving to Hopper. I'd expect that having locals in your plan will be a requirement.
Would be really disappointed to not be able to record OTA for the times when there is weather problems (IOWs rain fade)There was talk of a USB External OTA tuner back in May, but not sure if thats still in the cards or not.
And yes you can use the 3rd tuner for anything when its not recording Prime Time stuff.
Scott had said there are 3 tuners that will record at least 6 things. I guess he means 2 tuners in addition to Primetime. So how often are there going to be more than 2 sat (non lil) being used by most I wonder?I guess we'll have to wait for all the details, but at first glance, the HR34 seems a better approach. While Primetime Anytime is a neat hook, I don't see it overcoming the additional tuner capacity that the HR34 has. Three tuners isn't enough for a household with adults and kids. Adding a second Hopper is likely to be expensive, both in upfront costs and fees.
whatchel1 said:Scott had said there are 3 tuners that will record at least 6 things. I guess he means 2 tuners in addition to Primetime. So how often are there going to be more than 2 sat (non lil) being used by most I wonder?
So how often does this come up? Would you use it once a week? Twice? Is it really worth trashing half of your available storage on the off chance that you might want to watch something?
How do you suppose that one tuner is going to record four programs at once? I don't see any mention of adding a "channel" to everyone's LIL offering that just carries reruns of the week's primetime schedule.
The local affiliates will surely demand that DISH play their commercial laden version of the program.
jaATL,
First these new receivers are going to be at first aimed to new customers, not existing ones. You will be able to upgrade if you want but will probably pay for the privilege of doing so. For this new system to work it requires a chipset that support MoCA, and none of the current receivers do this the Joey box will be the first box with the necessary chipset.
Two answer question two the answer is yes.
And for your final question, the current answer is it should. The Hopper software is built off of the 922 software, and currently you can take a external hard drive from a 622 / 722 and plug it into the 922 and watch all your recordings without issue, so I wouldn't think it would be any different for the Hopper.
Dish will also offer a program this spring for existing Dish subscribers who do not have a DVR?equipped
tuner decoder. This will provide an external hard drive that will plug into legacy equipment to deliver DVR
functionality to a standalone tuner box.
this is an interesting item in the article. charlie
jaATL,
First these new receivers are going to be at first aimed to new customers, not existing ones. You will be able to upgrade if you want but will probably pay for the privilege of doing so. For this new system to work it requires a chipset that support MoCA, and none of the current receivers do this the Joey box will be the first box with the necessary chipset.