Hopper blocker

[ashutto20]

Spoke to a tech today at local satellite store...

They had a hopper and joey they had been shown and the one big complaint they had was that the remote is uhf...what is the big difference between that and ir???and is that a deal breaker???

he also said there will be a hopper blocker (I'm not sure thats the exact name he used) but he told me you will be able to block others in your house from seeing whats on a certain hopper ( I'm assuming thats after dish releases the software to pair hoppers together)...just wanted to know if anyone else had heard this

Thanks in advance

 

[Scherrman]

Yep. It's called an isolator.

 

[3HaloODST]

Yep. Isolators have been around long before Hopper.

 

[butters]

Why would they complain about the UHF remote? Dish has been using UHF remotes for years.

Here's an image showing an isolated Hopper/Joey setup from this thread.

 

[Scherrman]

Yeah. I don't understand what the issue would be with the remotes.

 

[B_Kranski]

I would guess because they use more battery then ir?

 

[ashutto20]

not sure myself just wanted to hear what others said...

 

[Scherrman]

Seems odd. I have a 922 and the remotes are similar and work great.

 

[sethwell]

Seems odd. I have a 922 and the remotes are similar and work great.

Actually I think they work better. Might just be me?

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[isaacmorseMI]

I think the UHF remote is a HUGE improvement over any IR one, and the new ZigBee one for the H/J should work even better.

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[chiefbozz]

So there is no IR remote for the Hopper? Or is the UHF remote just for the Joey? If the Hopper also only does UHF then I can see their problem with it. Us people with universal remotes would be out of luck.

 

[Claude Greiner]

My biggest issue with the Hopper is that a huspand can be watching Porn in 1 room, and the wife can see that her huspand is watching porn from another room.

That right there is a deal breaker for alot of people. The second the huspand gets caught, the huspand is calling Directv to take the hopper out.

As far as the isolators, its for situations where you might have a single Dish sharing 2 Homes. Directv has got the same thing with the Band Stop Filters to prevent the MRV from backfeeding to other receivers on a different account.

As far as remotes being UHF, thats usually a positive unless a customer wants to use a universal remote.

 

[Backup Brain]

My biggest issue with the Hopper is that a huspand can be watching Porn in 1 room, and the wife can see that her huspand is watching porn from another room.

That right there is a deal breaker for alot of people. The second the huspand gets caught, the huspand is calling Directv to take the hopper out.

Are there really wives that don't know their husbands watch porn? Heck, sometimes my wife watches the soft-core porn with me, because it's so laughably bad and horribly acted. There's this woman on Skinemax we call Pig Girl because of her horrible nose job.

But I digress.

 

[Coach Knight]

My biggest issue with the Hopper is that a huspand can be watching Porn in 1 room, and the wife can see that her huspand is watching porn from another room.

That right there is a deal breaker for alot of people. The second the huspand gets caught, the huspand is calling Directv to take the hopper out.

Sounds like that guy needed to spend more time wife-shopping than TV provider shopping. Everyone knows all good wives watch porn with their husbands. :devil:

By "that guy" I meant the customer in question...not Claude. LOL

 

[myron243]

Do the Hopper and Joey have an IR receiver that you can turn on like a 922? If not then a lot of universal remote users might get a bit upset.

 

[rdinkel]

They will work with universal remotes, it is just that the new supplied HJ remotes only talk to the Dish equipment via UHF.

 

[Tampa8]

IMO you want a UHF remote....

 

[cosmo_kramer]

My biggest issue with the Hopper is that a huspand can be watching Porn in 1 room, and the wife can see that her huspand is watching porn from another room.

That right there is a deal breaker for alot of people. The second the huspand gets caught, the huspand is calling Directv to take the hopper out.

As far as the isolators, its for situations where you might have a single Dish sharing 2 Homes. Directv has got the same thing with the Band Stop Filters to prevent the MRV from backfeeding to other receivers on a different account.

As far as remotes being UHF, thats usually a positive unless a customer wants to use a universal remote.

Really, that's your biggest issue with the Hopper?? Like others have said, watch it together. It's more fun that way.

What about the porn showing up on the bill?? Oh yeah, paperless billing!!! :

Also, what's a huspand??

 

[sparc]

As far as the isolators, its for situations where you might have a single Dish sharing 2 Homes.

what's stopping a customer in a single home from using the isolators?

 

[Scherrman]

If it was soooo important to watch porn without your wife knowing why wouldn't you just get 2 Hoppers and have them isolated. If that is the biggest drawback of the Hopper then some people have some personal issues.