I'm just curious, not bashing anyone. How does one have time to watch all those shows recorded with 16 tuners, or 6 tuners, or whatever?
Our family of 4, on some nights I could see us using 6 or 7 Tuners.
But thats probably the worst case.
Normally we are only running maybe 3 or 4 depending if someone is Netflixing ,Ondemanding or Watching a recording.
Dish with 2 Hoppers 2 are Barely adequate in our house, Mainly because the 6 total tuners aren't in a single box and aren't Full Integration.
Close, But not quite.
But you make it work.
The Roamio was more user friendly with its 6 tuners, because you weren't fighting Joeys (or Minis) on Each Hopper.
And you could add another Roamio, and now each Mini would have 6 tuners between 2 rooms.
PTAT IMO is just another Tie up over Tuners.
The Super Joey was a good concept, But again, short on tuners.
At least now with the H3
The Fact that it has Full integration of all its tuners, You aren't limited to 3 Tuners for 2 rooms like you essentially are forced to do if you have Joeys.
Or you can Pay $48-60 in H2 fees and have a 4 Hoppers lol.
No thanks
16 tuners is overkill I agree, but 6-8 would comfortably serve a family of 4 without drama if its a single server.
But apparently the H3 can do 16, So why limit it?