I haven't called yet to see how much it will cost me to have this upgrade performed but I'm reasonably certain that it will be a low to no cost upgrade. I'm just trying to decide whether or not it will be worth my while to upgrade. Mind you my Hopper 2000 has been working fine and aside from having to have it replaced once in a couple of years it's serviced me well. I do have the external Sling adapter (the red brick) hooked into the unit for the Sling functionality so that won't be a feature that I gain. So I just want to know about the following:
1) How much faster is the Hopper w/Sling than the Hopper 2000? I know that the CPU is faster but that doesn't always translate into a faster unit in terms of browsing through the menus, guides, On Demand content, etc.
2) Is the picture quality any better that's being Slinged versus using the external Sling adapter? I know that it's partially dependent on bandwidth and I typically have a solid 14 megabits upstream (100 megabits downstream) on my cable modem connection. I typically get a good 4G signal on my Droid Turbo along with my LG G Pad 10.2 as well.
3) How likely is it that the next Hopper, whenever it comes out, will have features that somebody that's not interested in a 4K unit? Dish announced the 4K Joey but nothing on another Hopper unit. I have zero plans to get a 4K TV anytime in the near future since there's a dearth of content and it's going to take a while before there's a decent amount available via Blu Ray/digital download/On Demand much less live transmission.
Feel free to point out any other pros/cons about going from one unit to another. No rush to perform the upgrade just saw some features that'd be nice to have and figured I should be able to call in to have one shipped to me since it'll just be a swap. If I have to PM Dirt to get one shipped so be it but it shouldn't come to that.
1) How much faster is the Hopper w/Sling than the Hopper 2000? I know that the CPU is faster but that doesn't always translate into a faster unit in terms of browsing through the menus, guides, On Demand content, etc.
2) Is the picture quality any better that's being Slinged versus using the external Sling adapter? I know that it's partially dependent on bandwidth and I typically have a solid 14 megabits upstream (100 megabits downstream) on my cable modem connection. I typically get a good 4G signal on my Droid Turbo along with my LG G Pad 10.2 as well.
3) How likely is it that the next Hopper, whenever it comes out, will have features that somebody that's not interested in a 4K unit? Dish announced the 4K Joey but nothing on another Hopper unit. I have zero plans to get a 4K TV anytime in the near future since there's a dearth of content and it's going to take a while before there's a decent amount available via Blu Ray/digital download/On Demand much less live transmission.
Feel free to point out any other pros/cons about going from one unit to another. No rush to perform the upgrade just saw some features that'd be nice to have and figured I should be able to call in to have one shipped to me since it'll just be a swap. If I have to PM Dirt to get one shipped so be it but it shouldn't come to that.
