S cott I would like the option of getting rid of DVR folders Just have recordings you've made listed in order they were recorded Most people probably like the folders though. On the first hopper you had that option I guess I'm just in the minorityHow would you improve the Hopper 3 (besides adding a red LED on the front)
Has DISH Lost it ways?
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Give us the option of having a DVR list rather than iconsHow would you improve the Hopper 3 (besides adding a red LED on the front)
If my $39 Raspberry Pi can do that, surely dish can
Give us back the 4X forward and rewind
I used that feature a lot
And if the red light comes back
, make it a numeric display showing how many recordings are in progress
Rights holders would never allow that. Not for Dish or DTV/AT&T.
How would you improve the Hopper 3 (besides adding a red LED on the front)
I would add better streaming ability to stream ESPN3, and the Pac 12 regionals direclty to the Hopper.
The Hopper 3 is a dream. I have been in high tech for 45 years and it's easily one of the slickest products. People gotta complain
Mostly people want the great features of years gone-by returned.
I have 2 @ HWS: I have two, by the way, because we have multiple fire sticks in the house that access the hoppers.
Features I want returned:
- Roll over recordings to the other HWS for conflict resolution.
- better accessibility to the recordings on the second HWS
- manually adding OTA channels.
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As much as I agree with desired improvements to the HWS, I think we need to accept that there will be no such improvements, only the Hopper 3.
As Scott said, adding back the red recording light. Last week when I had some service, the Dish tech told me the newer H3's had the red recording light but I think he was either mistaken or just trying to get me to upgrade from my HWS.
I switched to our Hopper 3 / 4K Joey combo five years ago after I had first-hand experience with them at CES 2015. I have been impressed with the relative stability of our setup over this time, and the different dish and LNBf combo have practically eliminated weather outages at our location. And I have never had a Timer Conflict with the 16 satellite tuners.
The rockiest tech issues were with the old single-tuner USB dongle. Once I switched to the AirTV dual-tuner dongle, those issues went away.
I think we’re deserving of a 4K HDR Joey. And maybe the Hopper could be updated to HDMI 2.1 to support 4K at higher frame rates along with the newer 4K codecs that have been released in the last 5 years. And a USB dongle with a 2-digit red LED display so navychop can see how many timers are active without disturbing the clean lines of the Hopper for the rest of us…
The rockiest tech issues were with the old single-tuner USB dongle. Once I switched to the AirTV dual-tuner dongle, those issues went away.
I think we’re deserving of a 4K HDR Joey. And maybe the Hopper could be updated to HDMI 2.1 to support 4K at higher frame rates along with the newer 4K codecs that have been released in the last 5 years. And a USB dongle with a 2-digit red LED display so navychop can see how many timers are active without disturbing the clean lines of the Hopper for the rest of us…
Yeah that will never happen, Licensing agreements and Copyright protection prevent that from happening.Even programs recorded on the DVR hard drive are encrypted.
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It would be hard to improve the hardware. The UI could definitely benefit from upgrades and features:
1. Subfolders (it would be nice to for my wife & I to each have a top level directory folder and organize our programming separately.
2. Rename recordings (seems to me I used to be able to do that many years ago).
3. Along with the above, be able to move programs to folders irrespective of their title
4. See the size of recordings (would help distinguish which were recorded SD vs HD when "seeking", again, seems like I used to be able to do that)
5. Under diagnostics, show signal strength for multiple satellites simultaneously to allow the "challenged" (me) to more effectively aim antenna.
He was mistaken, that’s for sure
The already have that. I have a folder for myself for my programming. My wife has a folder for
herself that has her programming. The stuff that loads the main screen is our programming. You can set your timers to load programs to whatever folder you’d like them to be in.
2. Yes, renaming recordings was another important function that was lost that the ViP receivers had.
Is the Protect Recording feature still available?
Yes you can protect recordings.
For Recordings that already exist:
1) Press the Options Button while on the DVR page
2) Select Manage Recordings
3) Select the Recordings you want to protect
4) Select Protect
Or you can edit a Timer to turn Protect On.
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One feature I've always wanted that has never been available is the ability to split or trim recordings.
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