Mine is connected to the TV - never bothered hooking to the Hopper.
Hopper 3 Feature Sheet
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You do know that you can record off of the OTA if it is connected to the Hopper? My OTA coax goes to a splitter and then to the TV and Hopper. I can get it both ways that way...
I know but too cheap to buy the attachment. We only watch Jeopardy when all the tuners are busy so no loss if we miss it.
Wow, you really are cheap.
But seriously, you need to buy that dongle and attach it. In addition to the benefits mentioned above, the OTA broadcast nets you better PQ than the satellite channel; that is still my subjective assessment. The only downside I see is that the recording takes up more space on the internal disk because it's MPEG-2. But I have a big EHD and just move my Nova and Nature shows to it.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, having satellite with OTA is the best setup you have have. In my area we have lot's of customers with antennas and a lot of our Dish customers have it integrated. We sold a lot of antennas this way, especially any time there was a contract dispute with a local channel. Customers loved the fact that they don't have to switch inputs to watch OTA channels and that they can record programs on the multi-channels you can only get OTA.
If a retailer isn't pushing antennas then they are missing out on easy money.
If a retailer isn't pushing antennas then they are missing out on easy money.
I upgraded to a 722 when I bought my first HDTV in 2008. Our locals weren't available in HD on Dish yet, so I put up an antenna before football season started to get the HD broadcast. We don't use OTA as much as we used to, but it sure is nice to have. I also like the fact that we can get the sub-channels that aren't on Dish. It's so much handier being integrated into the Hopper. If I had it connected to the TV tuner, I'd probably forget it was even there.
I like putting the OTA in a side by side PIP with the same local channel from satellite to see how it compares to the satellite one. Usually cannot tell the difference except for the 10 second delay on the dish one.
I too have an OTA antenna, which I put in the attic. Because all of the TV stations are in the same vicinity of each other I can just leave it and get around 40 stations. I hook it up both ways, through the Hopper and straight. when I go through the hopper I get the EPG on most of the station, and some of the .1.2.3 stations that are not even offered by dish.
I wish they would fix the option where you could manually add a station, but it looks like that will never happen.
Anyway, the reason I do it is like another poster said, living in Tornado Alley you really need OTA should Dish go out, and you can also get your locals when Dish gets into a dispute with the local stations and drops them, which happened during football season one year. Had it not been for the OTA, I would have been irate, as it was I was only annoyed.
I wish they would fix the option where you could manually add a station, but it looks like that will never happen.
Anyway, the reason I do it is like another poster said, living in Tornado Alley you really need OTA should Dish go out, and you can also get your locals when Dish gets into a dispute with the local stations and drops them, which happened during football season one year. Had it not been for the OTA, I would have been irate, as it was I was only annoyed.
FWIW, on the newest interface (Carbon UI), they have finally removed the "Add" button. I suppose they could add it later, but after almost (4) years of it being on the first two Hopper models and being non-functional, I think this is the nail in the coffin for that feature.
I paid for the OTA module or my SatelliteGuys ViP 722 (thanks again, Scott & Eva ) Going to the Hopper 3 will mean eliminating two OTA tuners (one of the two on the 722 and one on the ViP 211) so watching live OTA and being able to "trick play" (pause, rewind, slo-mo, commercial skip, etc.) can only be done on one TV at a time. Sure, there's my Local DMA channels via Dish, but I like seeing things 10 seconds earlier.
No word about UHD Alliance support (HDR, sound, and color improvements)? Or is this one of the things that Dish is able to add later through firmware updates? I suppose it's all bits, right?
) Going to the Hopper 3 will mean eliminating two OTA tuners (one of the two on the 722 and one on the ViP 211) so watching live OTA and being able to "trick play" (pause, rewind, slo-mo, commercial skip, etc.) can only be done on one TV at a time. Sure, there's my Local DMA channels via Dish, but I like seeing things 10 seconds earlier.No word about UHD Alliance support (HDR, sound, and color improvements)? Or is this one of the things that Dish is able to add later through firmware updates? I suppose it's all bits, right?
Sometimes my son will be watching the same NFL game off of the satellite downstairs while I'm watching it OTA upstairs. Heading down to the kitchen it can be like deja vu! (Amazing! He fumbled the ball... AGAIN!)
Been using OTA integrated with Dish since the 722. As someone mentioned earlier I too can see better pic quality. One problem with my local NBC station is that Dish doesn't supply guide information for it. They do for the satellite channels but not the OTA, go figure.
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I too have OTA's in my Hoppers. In fact, that's one reason why I have two Hoppers so that I can have two OTA tuners. If the Hopper would support two, I would have two in both. For this reason, and a couple others, I will have to wait until we can hopefully have two H3's on an account.
I usually sit in the kitchen and watch TV and my wife sits in the living room. Even though it's not an open concept they are connected and the TVs are probably 15 feet from each other. The hopper is in the living room and Joey 1 in the kitchen. There is a slight delay and when we watch sports it can be an issue. Not only because of her reactions but because I can hear the announcers. It's like an echo.
Correct - No details on operation, sleep, max, etc. I did read the rating on the upper left part of the hopper shown in thatpdf - it was 95 watts. What do current hoppers have marked on the back?
Dish has added the 52.0 remote manual to their site....https://www.mydish.com/support/remote-control-manual
Attached is the pdf for it also.
Attached is the pdf for it also.
