Terrible call to DiSH

[John2021]

So the Joey itself has no tuners but enables use of one of the Hopper Duo's 2 tuners by a 2nd user in HD? I would thusly allege that calling that Hopper, by itself, a Duo could be misleading. A combo of Hopper Duo plus Joey could be unitarily considered a Duo system. To me, as I've previously opined, that's a step backward from being able to support 2 users out of a single box- I was actually expecting them to progress to like 4 users (Quattro?) or essentially whole home/1unit. But I suppose having both Duo users in HD is still something of a plus.

The joey's use a tuner from the main hopper the joeys don't have any tuners in them.. i don't know about the super joey though since it adds 2 tuners!!! and won't work with the hopper 3

 

[John2021]

The point is to NOT only have 1 box to support two users so that both users have an HD picture with all the same options at both TVs

i thought the point was also to avoid paying the mirror fee as well for the second room

 

[John2021]

Think about how you would feed an HD signal to the second TV. HDMI everywhere?

try recording with a duo when two tv's are being used even a hopper with sling is cut throat unless for a single person with one tv... the hopper 3 is the way to go it's upgradeable and expandable if need be. never any recording conflicts

 

[John2021]

 

[mrbreeze640]

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What the hell man...

Do you have to reply to every post?

 

[tanman]

I avoid the second tv fee and can still watch in HD(720P) by using a firestick and dishanywhere.

 

[telstar_1]

Think about how you would feed an HD signal to the second TV. HDMI everywhere?

Possibly, or HD over coax, cat5, etc.

The point is to NOT only have 1 box to support two users so that both users have an HD picture with all the same options at both TVs

But the progression could have been to have TV2 (and possibly TVs 3 & 4) be in HD along with adding more tuners; both users already had "all the same options" with a Duo unit as far as usability.

 

[HipKat]

Possibly, or HD over coax, cat5, etc.

But the progression could have been to have TV2 (and possibly TVs 3 & 4) be in HD along with adding more tuners; both users already had "all the same options" with a Duo unit as far as usability.

No, they didn't. They didn't have HD on the modulated tuners.
Technicians don't run CAT5/6 as only the two connections on the Hopper could feed 2 Joeys. Anymore and you'd need a switch, which is just another fail point.
They don't have the connectivity options.
The progression is to go from VIP to the Hopper

 

[Strega]

They could have put an ATSC modulator in there but I think those used to be very expensive - hmm, even now when I search for those I see $250 - $500 price tags vs $20 for NTSC. But then you still need a cable connection at both ends and I think those are actually not that common overall - they seemed to become common-ish on new homes built from 1985 to around 2000 but newer homes are more likely to be wired for ethernet and/or fiber and older homes have nothing.

The world has been shifting to internet-first with TV as kind of an afterthought, or something that just comes along for "free" once the internet is good enough, whereas in 1980, everyone had TV and you got your internet through a dial up modem (if at all.)