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Good point about the programming being variable but I'd like to eliminate as many sources of inaccuracy as possible. It's not a huge deal but was interested if anything was possible

Any ideas on how to calibrate the picture from the Hopper? I think HDNet used to air calibration patterns but I think that's stopped. I'm assuming there's no software functionality in the box itself for this?

Exactly what I did. I hope I wind up liking Dish more so I don't have to switch back, but I now feel like a sucker for not starting this whole switch earlier. To the OP, when I was considering the HR34 vs 2 hoppers, aside from the fact that DTV wanted to charge me $499 for the HR34, the biggest...

Thanks for the insight. In thinking about this further, I'm wondering if I could use the 1st hopper as a bridge and connect it via ethernet to the router and then use the HIC as the access point in the bedroom.

So here's my setup. I have my living room downstairs hard wired for ethernet to my modem/router in my office. My living room ethernet connects to the HIC which then connects to the hopper in the living room. My other hopper is in my bedroom and connects via MoCA through the HIC back to the...

What?? You have to pay if their equipment craps out? That's ridiculous. Do you have to pay to fix it if you have the protection plan?

In my 2 weeks I've had to resort to RBR a few times. Good news is that it doesn't take nearly as long to reboot as the DTV equipment I had. It was a full 5-10 minute endeavor each time

Honestly, I have no idea - I never tried. To me, you can always fast forward through a fully recorded show but if it isn't recorded, there's nothing you can do on playback. It sounds like from the posts above that you can select it to record the whole show, but IMO think recording the whole...

I often wind having a too-complicated setup because of my ideas. I don't think it would be too difficult for Dish to program this though as long as each receiver has the ability to interrogate the other as to tuner status. The receivers already do that I believe and also have the ability to...

I just did the opposite - left DTV for Dish. Ultimately DTV wanted to charge me $400 to upgrade my equipment to the HR34 from my current crap which was 5 years old and slow as molasses. I had been out of contract for 3 years but continued to pay. They also would do very little for me on the...

Wait, so let me get this straight - if 10 minutes into a show I decide "hey this is something my wife would want to watch" or "I want to keep this", I can't just hit record and have it record the whole show? I have to rewind to the beginning and then hit record? That's crazy! What is the...

It's definitely nice that you can see both sets of recordings on each hopper but it would be better if you could view them all as one big list. Also, It would be awesome if each hopper could allocate tuners amongst each other. In other words, if Hopper 1 is scheduled to record 4 things and...

Directv is the same way, which is why I switched to dish. I expected the same treatment from dish when my contract is up but in the meantime I get the better deal. The way it seems to work with dtv and dish is that in order to get the best deals you need to switch every 2 years. I think they...

Apple envisions new cloud DVR, social space in set-top box | Apple - CNET News If implemented properly - this would crush any DVR out there now

I basically said - " I just had dish installed this weekend and would like you to consider an adjustment." when I called the other day. Today when the first call center person said "our promotions change all the time" I told her to transfer me to customer loyalty because the original person...

Under settings, go to network, then whole home. That's where you link the joey to the hoppers I believe

If it makes you feel any better about your hiccups, my order was wrong and had me down as 1H/2J's even though I ordered 2H/1J. Luckily he had the extra hopper not he truck. Then I had to dig the hole for the pole to mount the dish because they didn't believe me there weren't gas lines on the...

After getting past the first level of gate keeper and successfully getting transferred to customer loyalty dept, I got $100 credited to my account in about 10 seconds. Awesome. This forum is the best. And Dish certainly didn't have to do anything since I'm already locked in, so I have to commend...

When I go like I'm ordering 5 TV's it gives me a popup that says I have to call customer service if I want 5. Did you not get that? Does anybody have an offer code or something I can reference?

If somebody could post here once they know the deal has hit, that would be greatly appreciated.

I do like a lot about the hopper vs DTV equipment but I agree that the organization setup is lacking. I also find very annoying that the system drops your preference for guide and dvr setup when you power down. It's annoying to have to go reselect my favorite channel list every day, Same for the...

I let it pickt he resolution figuring it would go HD if the throughput was there. Is having the hopper go through the HIC any problem you think? I can't imagine it is as Moca has several hundred Mbps throughput and its connected to my ethernet network. Is there a way to test ethernet througput?

Thanks for the thoughts guys. I'll probably leave it on 1080i unless I'm doing extended viewing on a 720p channel (which I don't expect). I have found the dish picture to be smoother than DTV for some reason - not sure. For example, House used to be all smeary and blurry on DTV but now it looks...

I was actually a bit disappointed in the performance on this. I have the HIC hardwired into my ethernet network which my desktop is connected to in another room. Given that an HDTV stream should be no more than 20Mbps, I was expecting near HD quality when I pulled up the stream on my mac. The...

I was a new customer as of saturday. I called and spoke with Chris (operator ID DJ6) and she said that she'd be happy to adjust my account but she didnt' see any special for the second hopper being $99. Any suggestions?