We should of seen a 6 tuner hopper from the Start like I said last year ,when they came out with the entire concept. One hopper with three tuners is not enough for most two person households, much less 3 or 4.
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We should of seen a 6 tuner hopper from the Start like I said last year ,when they came out with the entire concept. One hopper with three tuners is not enough for most two person households, much less 3 or 4.
I also said the same thing. And many criticized me for it and even said dish did a survey and found people only used 2 tuners on their dvr. Yeah because that's all they had on a typical install. The whole reason they came out with 3 tuners was due to the broken tech the chose in the nodes. Switching in 500mhz for one channel. Really? That's over half of a cable tv system! They could only fit three with the needed band guards and other things. They should have looked at swm that DirecTV rolled out a couple years before. Now that tech impresses me. Here's hoping to them getting this straight when my 2 yr is up with DirecTV. I am hoping my decision won't already be made up for me like it was when I saw the spec sheets for the hopper.. I knew I wasn't prepared to pay for TV and have an unhappy household over who got to record stuff or not.
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$99 for a second hopper might save this along with the bug fixes. Time to change my icon from DOA..
I don't see any Directv customers with HR34's saying they need a second HR34, yet just about every hopper customer says they need 2 hoppers.
Dish screwed up, and the $99 for the second hopper is just a band aid to temporarly stop customers from getting pist off because if they only have 1 hopper they are very limited in what they can record.
We need a hopper with 6 Tuners, Designing and producing the unit is not a problem, but rather the 2 cables required for the installation.
Before Dish has the single cable technology for the Dual Tuners, so many installs would get cancelled because it was almost impossible to run a second line to the customers TV. The installers aint spending an entire day doing custom work, and the customers don't want un-necessary holes drilled in their walls when they are already pre-wired for cable.
The problem is that once the installer says it can't be done, the sale is pretty much lost and is very hard to save at that point.
Dish screwed up, and the $99 for the second hopper is just a band aid to temporarly stop customers from getting pist off because if they only have 1 hopper they are very limited in what they can record.
We need a hopper with 6 Tuners, Designing and producing the unit is not a problem, but rather the 2 cables required for the installation.
Before Dish has the single cable technology for the Dual Tuners, so many installs would get cancelled because it was almost impossible to run a second line to the customers TV. The installers aint spending an entire day doing custom work, and the customers don't want un-necessary holes drilled in their walls when they are already pre-wired for cable.
The problem is that once the installer says it can't be done, the sale is pretty much lost and is very hard to save at that point.
Charlie is on the pigish tour with the cable co. and has had no time for chat.
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When does the $99 for the 2nd Hopper take effect? I have 2 people that would be interested in that for sure.
May I remind everyone that, in the beginning, a new sub got a free Hopper and up to 3 Joeys for free. If they wanted a second Hopper, it was $200. Now, at that same time, existing subs got a Hopper for $100 and up to 3 Joeys for free. If you wanted that second Hopper it was an additional $100, for a total of $200. Guess what, new subs and existing subs with 2 Hoppers paid $200. I don't see anyone getting screwed here.
Direct in the past has had some kind of promotion where they pay a certain portion of ETF I believe, but hope things work out with whatever issues you may be having!
I'm guessing that it's most likely the beginning of the month but hoping someone will verify that its before next weekend. That $100 less cost of front would most likely sway these people's decision on the Hopper.
This surely has a lot to do with the fact that DIRECTV HR34 installations typically incorporate multiple H2x and/or HR2x boxes (since functional RVU clients have remained mystifyingly unavailable).
