Does anyone know if we will be able to buy "extra" Joeys to expand a leased system? For example, I intend to lease two Hoppers and either two or four Joeys to cover our six HD TVs. Could be more cost effective for me to not have to be paying an extra $14 each month for the two Joeys sitting idle most of the year in extra bedrooms. If past policies apply, I should be able to activate owned Joeys only when needed by just calling Dish CSR. But with leased units, they need to always be active.
Buying Joeys to add to Leased Hopper/Joey Architecture
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As I tried to explain the first post: To be able to inactivate it from the system when not going to be in use for several months--thus avoiding its associated monthly fee.
If you own it you may be able to deactivate it without having to returning it to Dish. Not sure on how they are going to handle the Joeys yet though.
Scherrman can speak for himself.
But if you lease a Joey it must be activated and earning Dish the $7.00 a month. If one of these leased units is deactivated you have 30 days to return it so it can go to somebody who will pay the $7.00. After that, you are billed the full retail price of the unit.
But if you lease a Joey it must be activated and earning Dish the $7.00 a month. If one of these leased units is deactivated you have 30 days to return it so it can go to somebody who will pay the $7.00. After that, you are billed the full retail price of the unit.
What I meant is that the benefit of owning equipment is the fact that you can deactivate it without having to return it to Dish. When you lease equipment it has to be returned to Dish.
Another benefit to owning equipment is to avoid contracts.
This could become an important consideration for many folks with TVs not used regularly. Under the current architecture, most of the extra bedroom TVs are just hooked up to coax fed from an active receiver via TV2 output. There was no extra monthly expense associated with using these TVs. But with the new Hopper/Joey architecture, each TV in the house is to be connected locally to its own H or J box--which requires an associated monthly fee.
You can still use a RF Modulator from the Joey and split that out to multiple TVs similar to TV2 of a dual tuner.
True, but (according to PM from DIRT) you cannot pair added 40.0 remotes to a single Joey to enable controlling the Joey from multiple rooms.
That might work for some, but not for me. I want to be able to activate additional TVs when company comes to visit. And whenever that happens all the regular sets will still be in use.
Wow, that's really disappointing. That's exactly what I was planning to do. I guess plan "B" would be a "roving" Joey for various guest rooms, OR simply having OTA only in those rooms.
