As of an email I received overnight they are still on track of releasing it by the end of the month. 
HOPPER 3 UPGRADES
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I was told by dish that you be only able to have one Hopper 3. I'm sure one will be fine but I want to keep recordings separate.
I currently have 2 hoppers and 3 joeys
I currently have 2 hoppers and 3 joeys
I would think that would be the case for most 2 Hopper people. Scott said that 5% of hopper customers have 2 Hoppers. I would be willing to bet that if they all upgraded to Hopper 3, 95% (or more) of them would opt for a single H3, and a number of Joeys or wireless Joeys.
I would also be willing to bet that Dish does not discount the 2nd Hopper 3. They designed this to be to the whole home solution, and if you want to have 2, while they will allow it on the account, you will likely have to pay full retail for it and $15/month receiver fee.
As of today, and probably the near future, that is accurate. They do have plans to allow a 2nd Hopper 3 (it requires a technical change - it's not just a business decision to not allow it).
I haven't put the poly pipe in the ground yet. I will do that with pull cord for fishing cable and another pull cord when I do. I was planning on having 3 RG6 cables plus messenger with a 2 HWS install until H3 was announced. Also, I was going to use the installer RG6. I don't want to do the install myself. However, given the length of the trench and necessity of going under a sidewalk, I have to do that part since the installer will not.
I don't think it's a lot of TV viewing as much as wanting Mom and Pop Hoppers or parent and kiddie Hoppers. It separates the programming....
I can understand that but it is going to save me a fortune not having all these hoppers in my house.
The DPH42 hybrid switch model number implies that it has 4 dish pro inputs for up to 4 satellite orbitals and 2 DPZ outputs for 2 H3s or a mix of 1 H3 and another receiver or multiple Wallys. You would need either two (EA) or three (WA) coaxs from the dish or dishes to the switch.
So an H3 can support up to 7 Joeys, so 8 people can watch at any given time. This implies those 8 streams are being buffered on the HDD. That leaves 8 possible direct to HDD recordings.
Does the H3 allow 16 direct to HDD DVR recordings simultaneously if no one is watching TV.
Does the H3 allow 16 direct to HDD DVR recordings simultaneously if no one is watching TV.
I hope that you can use the old DP LNBFs with it. If that's the case, I'll get one and put my three separate dishes up for each orbital location, I like that because it helps with rainfade. In the mean time, I'll make do with the 1000.2.
If you get in house tech, they should run dual orange burial cable for you. Also keep we mind, if it's in house tech they will not do any digging with out markings. It's company policy to have area mark before doing any digging . They will also supply pole and concrete if you need that..
I have two hoppers and two joeys. I would switch to hopper 3 and 3 joeys but like my PIP options with second hopper. Correct me if I'm wrong but only super joeys have pip and are not compatible with hopper3.
Yep, Chad is correct. So, if you wanted to go to an H3 you simply order up a 4K Joey to replace one of those Hoppers and you have PIP on two TVs just like you have today.
Yup, knew that but got all discombobulated
Yup, I re-read earlier posts that talked about super joeys having pip but never happened. I would want two 4k's so I could have pip on third tv. i like the idea of new stuff but might just keep the setup i have now.
Hopper 3 is $15. how much are the 4k joeys with one joey 2.0. Spending more makes little sense at a time when its getting crazy to watch bills go up. But on the other hand...
From everything I have read, the4K Joey will be the same price as the Joey....for now.
