Hi folks, I saw you helped a previous poster confirm what he was planning to order and I would appreciate that help too. We are moving from a VIP622 and a 322.
We have a main TV which we just upgraded to a Samsung QN55Q7, which can do 4K. My thought is to connect the Hopper3 to it, to have at least two tuners on this TV. (The TV can actually do 4 channels in 4 windows, but I don't know if the Hopper3 can support this. I think we can live with a main channel and PIP.) Dish tells me that they will bring an appropriate HDMI cable. The 2006 TV that died was HDMI, but I know there are new standards and I had planned to get a new cable, but apparently I don't need to do that.
The second TV is in the kitchen. It is an old component set that uses the 322, so there is a coax connector for a wired Joey. I do not need 4K here, but when this TV dies I will get an HD one. I was thinking of the wired Joey here, which I assume would be the 2.0. Do you agree?
The third TV is new, a 30" HDTV that I would like to be able to move around, so wireless Joey here.
I think we would prefer the number 40 remote. It is laid out like the one we have with the 622 and we are fine with it. We have never needed backlighting. If we decide we want to talk to the Hopper, we can always upgrade.
The main TV is in a cabinet that is 2' deep and 51" wide. Given that the stand for this TV extends back 11", but only in the center of the TV, we have put the connector box that this TV uses behind the TV, to one side of the rear projection of the stand. I am thinking of putting the Hopper3 and the Wireless Access Point behind the TV too, on the other side. Does this sound o.k.? Given that the Hopper remote is RF, it seems to me that this will work, right?. I had the 622 in the cabinet that is part of the built-in entertainment center, but I understand that this was a poor choice for the 622 and is also a poor choice for the Hopper. Our only other choice is on top of the cabinet that houses the audio components and the BD player, but the Hopper3 and the Joey access point would make the top of the cabinet cluttered and would displace the speaker that sits up there.
Have I missed something I should specify, or would you recommend other choices? Thank you for your help.
BTW, we really like the Q7. We changed the out-of-the box picture preset last night because the picture kept setting itself darker as the sun went down until we could hardly make out the picture, but setting it from "Standard" to "Normal" took care of that. Most of the reviewers say to use "Movie," but our eyes are pretty bad and Movie has softer edges and is less contrasty. The sound is superb for a TV that is 2" thick, and I haven't connected the ZVOX sound bar yet. We were hurrying to watch the football games and everything we have watched has had a great picture.
We have a main TV which we just upgraded to a Samsung QN55Q7, which can do 4K. My thought is to connect the Hopper3 to it, to have at least two tuners on this TV. (The TV can actually do 4 channels in 4 windows, but I don't know if the Hopper3 can support this. I think we can live with a main channel and PIP.) Dish tells me that they will bring an appropriate HDMI cable. The 2006 TV that died was HDMI, but I know there are new standards and I had planned to get a new cable, but apparently I don't need to do that.
The second TV is in the kitchen. It is an old component set that uses the 322, so there is a coax connector for a wired Joey. I do not need 4K here, but when this TV dies I will get an HD one. I was thinking of the wired Joey here, which I assume would be the 2.0. Do you agree?
The third TV is new, a 30" HDTV that I would like to be able to move around, so wireless Joey here.
I think we would prefer the number 40 remote. It is laid out like the one we have with the 622 and we are fine with it. We have never needed backlighting. If we decide we want to talk to the Hopper, we can always upgrade.
The main TV is in a cabinet that is 2' deep and 51" wide. Given that the stand for this TV extends back 11", but only in the center of the TV, we have put the connector box that this TV uses behind the TV, to one side of the rear projection of the stand. I am thinking of putting the Hopper3 and the Wireless Access Point behind the TV too, on the other side. Does this sound o.k.? Given that the Hopper remote is RF, it seems to me that this will work, right?. I had the 622 in the cabinet that is part of the built-in entertainment center, but I understand that this was a poor choice for the 622 and is also a poor choice for the Hopper. Our only other choice is on top of the cabinet that houses the audio components and the BD player, but the Hopper3 and the Joey access point would make the top of the cabinet cluttered and would displace the speaker that sits up there.
Have I missed something I should specify, or would you recommend other choices? Thank you for your help.
BTW, we really like the Q7. We changed the out-of-the box picture preset last night because the picture kept setting itself darker as the sun went down until we could hardly make out the picture, but setting it from "Standard" to "Normal" took care of that. Most of the reviewers say to use "Movie," but our eyes are pretty bad and Movie has softer edges and is less contrasty. The sound is superb for a TV that is 2" thick, and I haven't connected the ZVOX sound bar yet. We were hurrying to watch the football games and everything we have watched has had a great picture.
