You are 100% correct. Forgot we are talking the Wally not a VIP.
Wally DVR fee
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You are 100% correct. Forgot we are talking the Wally not a VIP.
I'm pretty sure I know the answers to these three questions but I better make sure.
1) If I have two Wally receivers each with an external hard drive attached, can I move the drive from one Wally to the other and watch the recordings from one Wally on the other Wally without losing the recordings on either drive?
2) if I attach a third drive to the Wally whose drive has been moved to the other Wally, will the Wally accept the original drive back or will it try to erase the drive?
3) can the drives be swapped between the two Wallys and then back without losing any recordings?
1) If I have two Wally receivers each with an external hard drive attached, can I move the drive from one Wally to the other and watch the recordings from one Wally on the other Wally without losing the recordings on either drive?
2) if I attach a third drive to the Wally whose drive has been moved to the other Wally, will the Wally accept the original drive back or will it try to erase the drive?
3) can the drives be swapped between the two Wallys and then back without losing any recordings?
1. Yes
2. It will accept the drive back
3. Yes, no loss...
2. It will accept the drive back
3. Yes, no loss...
Speaking of fees. I wanted to get my grandmother hooked up on Dish.
My plan is to get her a Wally and the top 120 package. Does a plain Wally have a first reciever fee? I know it would have a one time fee to turn it into a DVR. Thanks in advance.
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My plan is to get her a Wally and the top 120 package. Does a plain Wally have a first reciever fee? I know it would have a one time fee to turn it into a DVR. Thanks in advance.
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No fee (this is wrong) but you may want to look at the Hopper Duo instead
Edit:
As it turns out, I'm not very good at keeping track of new fees. So in this case a Hopper Duo would be cheaper since you wouldn't have to pay the $40 DVR activation fee for the Wally and you wouldn't have to pay for a hard drive either.
That's not correct. There is now a non DVR fee $5 for new customers with Wally's. A Duo or a Wally are now the same monthly price for the first 2 years.
Yes. For new customers there is a non DVR fee of $5 so a Duo or a Wally are the same price monthly for the first 2 years.
But if you pay the one time $40.00 fee for the Dvr software and add your own external hard drive you don’t have to pay the monthly fee , right?
The price of the new channel packages already includes the Hopper Duo so there's no fee there.
The Hopper Duo only supports two TVs so that might be one reason.
Nope. The Wally is not considered a DVR receiver so the $5 fee applies whether you attach a hard drive or not.
No they don't. The package prices are the package prices. The DVR and/or receiver fees are separate. The only place they're combined is in the ad where they advertise the Duo with the Top120 for 59.95 a month for the first 2 years.
The Duo only 'supports' 2 TV's if you add a Joey with the additional monthly Joey fee. They are NOT like a 722K which really 'supported' 2 TV's.
I think that's the point. They want everybody to have a DVR.
We didn't install a single Duo until the non DVR fee started, now they're the same price so we aren't doing many Wally's.
Yes, as long as it is a 1000.2, 1000.4, or a newer 1000+ (international) dish. There are some models of Dish 1000 (and 1000+) that require a switch, but those are the very early models.
You seem a bit sensitive about this, do people get confused about it a lot?
