Hopper 3

[mikfort51]

I have 3 receivers now (722,722,612)and wanted a hopper 3 and a wireless Joey. The chat line wouldn't give me a price unless I upgraded all 3 receivers + $100 for the H3 and $25 for the Joey +$95 service call. I've had Dish since the 80's and would have thought I could get a better deal


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[navychop]

You cannot have ViP and Hoppers on the same system. The ViP211 series is an exception, for tailgating.

 

[ChadT41]

How have you had Dish since the 80’s? They started in 1996.

 

[HipKat]

I have 3 receivers now (722,722,612)and wanted a hopper 3 and a wireless Joey. The chat line wouldn't give me a price unless I upgraded all 3 receivers + $100 for the H3 and $25 for the Joey +$95 service call. I've had Dish since the 80's and would have thought I could get a better deal


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I would never try to get a deal on a chat line. You're chatting with a tier 1, low-level cubicle occupant. Call and ask for loyalty. They'll probably wave the $95.00, maybe wave or reduce the $100.00 - MAYBE. WiFi Joeys are $25.00 per Joey - you can try, but good luck. If you have 5 TV's you need the Hopper and 4 Joeys so your equipment price is going up, for sure

 

[TheKrell]

I haven't been a loyal customer since the eighties but I went from one 722 and two 612's to an H3 and 2 J3's for free. I believe I had to commit for another 2 years, and I'm on autopay...

 

[navychop]

I started with a couple of those new fangled 301s.

 

[HipKat]

I started with a couple of those new fangled 301s.

I started with whatever receiver they had in 1999, the first time I had Dish

 

[JSheridan]

I started with whatever receiver they had in 1999, the first time I had Dish

I started with a receiver that Charlie brought back from China after the Echostar 1 launch. I think they called it a 2000.

 

[TheKrell]

My first Dish receiver was the 4900. It was the only Dish receiver I have ever had with a pretty darn good RF modulator to distribute signal to multiple TV's.

 

[Rolling Joe]

Oh boy! A list your first receiver thread!

3000, October 1996, right after the price dropped from $500 to $300. Dish replace it in January '98 when they bricked a bunch of them during an update.

 

[ChadT41]

I started in 2011. My first was two 722’s and a 612.

 

[TheKrell]

Oh boy! A list your first receiver thread!

Do you prefer a separate thread? How about a poll-type thread where we check (vote for) our earliest receiver. And another for the most exotic receiver such as that bizarre JVC thing that recorded not to disk but rather to tape.

 

[ChadT41]

Do you prefer a separate thread? How about a poll-type thread where we check (vote for) our earliest receiver. And another for the most exotic receiver such as that bizarre JVC thing that recorded not to disk but rather to tape.

 

[n0qcu]

Do you prefer a separate thread? How about a poll-type thread where we check (vote for) our earliest receiver. And another for the most exotic receiver such as that bizarre JVC thing that recorded not to disk but rather to tape.

I had one of those and I still have one of the tapes.

 

[ChadT41]

I just realized my edit didn’t go through. The JVC one was the predecessor to the 381. My all time favorite receiver.

 

[mikfort51]

How have you had Dish since the 80’s? They started in 1996.

The company that became EchoStar was founded by Charles Ergen in 1980 as a small retail store that sold direct-to-home satellite television products and services. During the 1980s it was primarily a manufacturer and distributor of C-band hardware.

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[ChadT41]

They didn’t sell programming until Dish, in 1996

 

[joewhite57]

A 311, a 322 and a 811 on the one rear projection HD tv. That was high tech back then.

 

[ChadT41]

A 311, a 322 and a 811 on the one rear projection HD tv. That was high tech back then.

Wasn’t the 811 the HD or MPEG4 version of the 381? That’s one of the few receivers I do not have a good knowledge on.

 

[TheKrell]

Wasn’t the 811 the HD or MPEG4 version of the 381? That’s one of the few receivers I do not have a good knowledge on.

I believe the 811 was HD, but I don't believe it had HDMI or MPEG4 decoding. I am looking here: EKB: HDTV Receiver Features