I'm shocked that all the critics that raved about the new Hopper didn't notice SO many things that are missing from the Hopper 3.
I've already complained about this, but taking away the Themes so you can quickly and easily see what movies are airing in the coming week (and filtering by rating, whether you’re subscribe or not) is unconscionable.
The new remote makes everything that took one step turn into three to five steps.
You used to be able to save a search on a word, like if you wanted to tape every movie that has Al Pacino in the description or Academy Award in the subject. now you can only search for words of movies/tv shows that are airing in the next week but you can't save those searches to be continuous.
The recall button being used to delete programs. Every time that you click recall, instead of going to the very next program, it jumps back to the latest taped program. That leads to accidentally deleting programs you didn't mean to.
which ties to this. In the Hopper 2, if you accidentally deleted a prime time anytime program, if you went to search and searched for the program, it would still be on the drive (i know you weren't able to untrash it, but you at least could do the search, find the program and watch it. Now if you accidentally delete a program, because of trigger finger or any other accidental reason, that show is history. There is no way to watch it other than by On Demand.
It's just infuriating that to "simplify" the Dish, which I'm assuming was the intention, they ruined quite a bit of what made the Hopper so rich. I appreciate that i can now tape 8 programs instead of 6 at the same time, but had i known how much i had to trade off to do so, i never would have upgraded.
I really hope that then engineers go back to the old hopper and look at what was there and hopefully upgrade the software on the Hopper 3.
I've already complained about this, but taking away the Themes so you can quickly and easily see what movies are airing in the coming week (and filtering by rating, whether you’re subscribe or not) is unconscionable.
The new remote makes everything that took one step turn into three to five steps.
You used to be able to save a search on a word, like if you wanted to tape every movie that has Al Pacino in the description or Academy Award in the subject. now you can only search for words of movies/tv shows that are airing in the next week but you can't save those searches to be continuous.
The recall button being used to delete programs. Every time that you click recall, instead of going to the very next program, it jumps back to the latest taped program. That leads to accidentally deleting programs you didn't mean to.
which ties to this. In the Hopper 2, if you accidentally deleted a prime time anytime program, if you went to search and searched for the program, it would still be on the drive (i know you weren't able to untrash it, but you at least could do the search, find the program and watch it. Now if you accidentally delete a program, because of trigger finger or any other accidental reason, that show is history. There is no way to watch it other than by On Demand.
It's just infuriating that to "simplify" the Dish, which I'm assuming was the intention, they ruined quite a bit of what made the Hopper so rich. I appreciate that i can now tape 8 programs instead of 6 at the same time, but had i known how much i had to trade off to do so, i never would have upgraded.
I really hope that then engineers go back to the old hopper and look at what was there and hopefully upgrade the software on the Hopper 3.
