If you want a stand alone receiver then keep what you have not, have a stand alone receiver defeats the purpose of a whole home DVR.
The whole home DVR is great what makes it better is the 3 tuners that can recoded. Then be able to watch anywhere in the house. It would be nice to watch other channels from the Joey's besides what is on the DVR. say you are recording 3 shows so the on the Joey you would have to watch one of the shows recording or something from the DVR or on demand, what if you didn't like any of the stuff taping and didn't have anything on the DVR to watch. .
that is why a tuner in the Joey would be nice. I don't think I will be upgrading to the Hopper and Joey.
Later,
John