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Couple of questions on the Plus box you add on to the Hopper. First does it add storage capacity to your DVR? Is there a place to find more info on what it does it how to work it once you get one? Did some searching and even on YouTube I could only find one video. Thanks
 
The Hopper + only adds Google TV and mixes it to work together with the Hopper Joey ecosystem. It does not add DVR recording space.

If you are getting full, you may want to consider plugging in an external hard drive and moving some of your older stuff to the drive which will open space for you on the hopper itself. Unfortunately you can not record directly to the external hard drive.
 
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Scott Greczkowski said:
The Hopper + only adds Google TV and mixes it to work together with the Hopper Joey ecosystem. It does not add DVR recording space.

If you are getting full, you may want to consider plugging in an external hard drive and moving some of your older stuff to the drive which will open space for you on the hopper itself. Unfortunately you can not record directly to the external hard drive.
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Two things. What do you look for in a hard drive? Will just about any work.

And I was looking one day on the dish site I saw something that said it added storage space and it was not just an external hard drive. Do they have a new receiver out to replace the hopper 3?

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BManley said:
Two things. What do you look for in a hard drive? Will just about any work.

And I was looking one day on the dish site I saw something that said it added storage space and it was not just an external hard drive. Do they have a new receiver out to replace the hopper 3?
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No, no new receiver. As for HDD, use a powered USB hub to add up to 8GBs of storage in mutliple drives, but that hub needs to have external power
 
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WickedStepMom said:
Charlie,
I have decided to get one to make it easier to watch the Paramount + and Plex apps throughout the house but I saw a video where someone complained that the entire Hopper video quality wasn't as good with the Hopper Plus attached. Have you noticed any changes?
Thanks,
Jan
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Hello Jan,
Nice hearing from you again. I don't notice any difference between my Plus, OTA, & Firestick. All picture quality look good to me.
Charlie
 
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Update, We decided to try it. Funny part we told them we have been having issues with our dish when we called and they said they would replace everything. They did not want to do that when the guy got here. He tried to add the box and it kept messing up, asked him if it was the main box and he said no. He was here for 4 hours and did finally replace the main box and the hopper jr's. Got some extra remotes as well. It's okay but we hate the new menu system that came up after we had the new box a few weeks. The guy came back by to pickup the box he left so we could transfer all of our recordings and he looked at it and could not change the menu. Told us if we did not like it to call in maybe they could change it back.

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BManley said:
Update, We decided to try it. Funny part we told them we have been having issues with our dish when we called and they said they would replace everything. They did not want to do that when the guy got here. He tried to add the box and it kept messing up, asked him if it was the main box and he said no. He was here for 4 hours and did finally replace the main box and the hopper jr's. Got some extra remotes as well. It's okay but we hate the new menu system that came up after we had the new box a few weeks. The guy came back by to pickup the box he left so we could transfer all of our recordings and he looked at it and could not change the menu. Told us if we did not like it to call in maybe they could change it back.
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It cannot be changed back
 
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charlesrshell said:
Hello Jan,
Nice hearing from you again. I don't notice any difference between my Plus, OTA, & Firestick. All picture quality look good to me.
Charlie
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Charlie,
My picture is great with the added Hopper Plus. I have another question. When the Hopper 3 is turned off, is the Hopper Plus supposed to turn off too? I have a white light on 24/7.
Jan
 
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WickedStepMom said:
Charlie,
My picture is great with the added Hopper Plus. I have another question. When the Hopper 3 is turned off, is the Hopper Plus supposed to turn off too? I have a white light on 24/7.
Jan
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Glad you like the picture. White light stays on 24/7.

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