I told Dish from day one that one hopper in a typical 4 room installation wouldn't work. It would just piss of customers. At least now this kinda puts them in line with DirecTV's charge of $99 for the HR34.
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I told Dish from day one that one hopper in a typical 4 room installation wouldn't work. It would just piss of customers. At least now this kinda puts them in line with DirecTV's charge of $99 for the HR34.
Needed 4 tuners, at least. PTAT is nice in theory but not practical as it would have been when the big 4 was the BIG 4.
I would say a guess at this point. Alhough I have heard rumblings for a few months now that a new Hopper was in the works. Nothing solid just rumblings...Is that a hint or a guess Scott?
Before the Hopper was announced at 3 tuners I had heard that they were working on a system with up to 6 tuners. Then the disappointing announcement of only 3, but I understand the limits of DPP and their desire for only one drop cable (probably from their early 921 learning days). I wonder if they worked out something more like DIRECTV's tech or are they thinking 2 cables?
Meh... even with 4. That's 0 left for recording in a 4 room install. With a 2-H/2-J install that's 2 left for recording...not many, but not bad either.
That would be cool... and here's hopping they throw the Duo Node/Solo Node garbage out the window as well. Such a broken solution there.
Well, to me at least as an installer; if they can get a feed to a 6 tuner receiver through one wire and back feed all the other rooms all with that same wire then that's all they need. I don't mind running three wires from the dish to the node at all. One wire would be nice for that too but I'll take what I can get.
My biggest question is whether it would be 4 tuners or 5/6 tuners. The current frequency allocation on the cable looks like they could only add one more tuner with quad band stacking - the "FUTURE" 50-575mhz range in the install docs. Beyond that they would have to consign themselves to two cables or implement a whole new SWM-like switching technology sending a single transponder down the pipe instead of half the satellite.
Just a fourth tuner would add a lot of headroom, but six would be killer.
I live in a DMA where we do not get HD locals - PTAT is useless, besides I already have my own PTAT.
I bought 2 HD TiVos, each with 2 OTA tuners.
I can, and do, not only record the big 4 whenever I want (24/7 not just 8 hours on weekdays) but I can export the recordings to my PC and schmooze them and burn them to DVD's if I want to save them.
Now that Dish and TiVo have kissed and made up, Dish needs to get a TiVo based DVR like DirecTV so we can do the same with satellite channels, not just OTA.
I bought 2 HD TiVos, each with 2 OTA tuners.
I can, and do, not only record the big 4 whenever I want (24/7 not just 8 hours on weekdays) but I can export the recordings to my PC and schmooze them and burn them to DVD's if I want to save them.
Now that Dish and TiVo have kissed and made up, Dish needs to get a TiVo based DVR like DirecTV so we can do the same with satellite channels, not just OTA.
Just as I am getting into my two hoppers
You don't want a six tuner Hoppah. Two for redundancy.
(Yawn) More of the same.... give the new subs the world, give the existing subs the finger! :rant:
Sometimes just push a little, I shoved a little to get two hoppers and one joey for 100.00. Now i should push for no charge. just kidding
We're a 2 person household with a 2H/2J system. My SO and I have different tastes in viewing and we record virtually every show we watch. For us the 2H/2J system is barely adequate. For example tonight I'm using all 3 tuners for recording from 8 to 11 PM and Hard Knocks has been rescheduled until tomorrow.
Glad to see at least someone thinks there is stuff worth watching on television.
No- because after as many years as some have had Dish, they've been loyal customers sending money faithfully every month. This "freebies for newbies" practice is the main cause of churn.
