I alredy have the stuff for an install, it also is owned and lastly I’m only useing it for apps and ota NOT with service
You don't want to get into the mess that a Super Joey install entails. No offense, but you seem to be very much a novice and the Super Joeys are a whole different breed of animal
Dude, firestick w/USB Adapter, 128GB Thumb Drive for recording, OTA Antenna. You'll have much more than you're getting from the old Dish receivers
You're kidding, right? Hopper 2 has a 2TB internal drive for recording. That is before you get into recent posts here that seem to confirm that adding external hard drives to a deactivated Hopper also still work. Heck, even a Hopper Duo would have 500GB of internal storage.
There is no need for 2 TB of recording when you’re streaming. Streaming is basically like on demand. Watch what you want, when you want in many cases. Truth is I stream everything, I don’t have any cable service and I have no need to record nor do I ever feel like I’m missing anything by not recording. I added a 500 GB SSD to my TV so I could record, and I’ve never used it in over two years And that’s coming from somebody who recorded everything I watched when I had dish network. Also, even when I recorded everything, I never used half of that recording space because most of the things I watched, when I was done I deleted them which is how a large number of people probably do it
I actually would because I filled up my tivo roamios 500gb hdd within 2 months of ota recordings and the only streaming the hopper will ever get is YouTube
Speaking of that, I saw recently that a lot of ATSC 1.0 OTA stations are switching from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 broadcasting. The good news is that means they can cram more subchannels into the existing bandwidth (without sacrificing picture quality) and the existing stations will take up less space when you record them. The bad news is that older OTA tuners would no longer be able to receive those stations at all after they switch to MPEG-4.
Which is glitchy on a Hopper. The point I'm making is that you're spending money on all this equipment. It's like buying a combine to cut your lawn. So instead of a 128GB Flash Drive, same setup I mentioned with a 2TB HDD that connects via USB. Not have a Dish you have to work around, not have cabling that looks like it was patchworked together. Not using an LNBF that's obsolete. Not having to struggle trying to get it pointed but plug and play and have a better YT app and every other app on the planet, whether you use them or not.
The dish dose work my hopper just won’t recognize it or complete check switch because I need new coax, and the spot I’ve put the dish in, is alredy pointed and just needs to be fine tuned, and as for the install? 1000.4 Eastern arc dish with 1 solo node and a spare solo node in case it fails.
You do realize that the Hopper 2 will support the Hopper+ whenever that product is finally released. The Hopper+ will allow any app from the Google Play store to be downloaded and integrated into the Hopper 2. So, there goes that part of your argument.
Also the dish network remote is better and there is also the better gui,
