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Upgrade to dish hopper with sling but without dvr

That makes perfect sense to me. That sounds like what happens every time I activate my Wally on my account. I am thinking that Dish might accidentally have my account incorrectly flagged as Commercial. This would explain why the model listed on the Diagnostics screen changes to Wally D instead of just Wally (I still have no idea what the D stands for.) and I lose DVR functionality when the Wally is activated. Then, when I deactivate the Wally, the model changes back to Wally and the DVR functionality returns, but it is only capable of receiving OTA channels. So, this means that there is a code somewhere in Dish's system that allows a Wally (on some type of account) with an external hard drive, but with DVR disabled. I have to wonder why someone would want that, except for maybe to have access to the nine-day program guide.
 
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No, they do. Like bars ,for example. One reason to disable the DVR is to inhibit the establishment form recording a game and charging people to watch it on replay
 
No, they do. Like bars ,for example. One reason to disable the DVR is to inhibit the establishment form recording a game and charging people to watch it on replay
Another is a commercial account such as a bar would have zero need for a DVR that wouldn’t violate the agreement. I’m just not 100% if that DVR rule applies to commercial set ups such as an apartment complex.
 
No, they do. Like bars ,for example. One reason to disable the DVR is to inhibit the establishment form recording a game and charging people to watch it on replay
Do they also do that for Wally on commercial accounts, like the way my account seems to be set up, as I described above? Why would a bar still need the ability to add a hard drive to a DVR-disabled Wally, just for the nine-day program guide perhaps?
 
Do they also do that for Wally on commercial accounts, like the way my account seems to be set up, as I described above? Why would a bar still need the ability to add a hard drive to a DVR-disabled Wally, just for the nine-day program guide perhaps?
I'm not sure. I haven't done a Wally on a commercial account yet.
 
I'm not sure. I haven't done a Wally on a commercial account yet.
Keep me posted. I am not going to call Dish to accuse them of anything unless I know for sure that is what would happen on a "commercial" account. There is definitely something screwed up about my account, though.
 
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Why did they give up on the snaps with HWS?