Is Dish dropping Hopper+?

[iKramerica]

Dish no longer mentions the Hopper+ on their website, in their comparison table, etc. is it a dead product?

 

[navychop]

Wow. If so, it barely outlasted MicroSoft Bob.

 

[navychop]

Hmmm. Or maybe the Super Dooper Hopper ++ is about to be introduced.

 

[Bruce]

Dish no longer mentions the Hopper+ on their website, in their comparison table, etc. is it a dead product?

Wow. If so, it barely outlasted MicroSoft Bob.

Hipkat already posted that this was going to happen.

 

[navychop]

Huh? Missed it? A Dodo or a Phoenix?

IOW, is there a replacement?

 

[Bruce]

Huh? Missed it? A Dodo or a Phoenix?

IOW, is there a replacement?

This will be breaking news but Dish has admitted defeat and is pulling all new work orders to install Hopper+ for now

 

[HipKat]

Dish no longer mentions the Hopper+ on their website, in their comparison table, etc. is it a dead product?

They are not dropping it, but they have finally admitted that there are issues, and they have stop creating work orders, although we've seen some, until they get it figured out

 

[KMeyer]

Mine was installed mid-Oct. Over the next two weeks I discovered several issues that I couldn't live with, so I removed it and reverted to the regular Hopper 3, and all is well. Another issue for me was having to use the Dish remote since some commands use RF, and my home theater system remote is IR only, which is fine for the Hopper 3 but not the Hopper +.

Here's a link to a summary of my findings.

Update on Hopper 3+ Bug Report

I posted a couple times with some issues after my Hopper 3 upgrade to Plus. Here's a summary with my latest observations. Both issues are related to old technology, which the S/W engineers may have overlooked. OTA Issue: OTA channels were excellent before the upgrade and are now choppy...

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