So it’s basically an hd duo that uses a joey for the second screen. That’s how they can finally rule out the “legacy” receivers.
Is Dish offering free Hoppe 3 upgrades
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So it’s basically an hd duo that uses a joey for the second screen. That’s how they can finally rule out the “legacy” receivers.
60 days.Cancel, wait 90 days, and sign up again with a new Hopper 3 and a new customer discount
That how it appears, but again, I first heard about this in Spring, and nothing since. TBH, I won't be shocked if we're still doing VIP installs after 10/1. In MY opinion, they need to work out the bugs with current software before they start fielding a whole new line of receivers.
SSDs are a consumable. HDDs are not. Once you've used up the endurance of an SSD, it is toast. To get an SSD that would last years in a consumer DVR which records constantly would be very expensive. I am not sure how much a Hopper3 is able to write a day, but with 16 tuners, you could fill up the 500 Hours Dish claims the Hopper3 is capable of recording in 1.3 days. With the overhead of SSD garbage collection, you'd probably need one which could be over written more than 3 times per day. Here is an example of a 5 Drive Write Per Day SSD in the 1.92TB size:
Micron 5100 MAX - solid state drive - 1920 GB - SATA 6Gb/s - MTFDDAK1T9TCC-1AR1ZABYY - Solid State Drives (SSDs) - CDW.com
I doubt Dish wants to spend that kind of money when a 2TB spinning disk costs them less than $100.
We were told officially last Thursday that the VIP cut off date of 09/31 has been extended an indefinite period of time. So there will be new customer activations with VIP equipment after 10/1 if that's what the customer orders. For how long, we don't know.
"Thrity days hath September..." do you need me to finish it?
I think dish was referring to 09/31 was the date that they were going to send a software fix to all the Hoppers . 
Apparently the Dish calendar has 31 days in September.
That’s the date they use when they don’t have a real one. 
Lol. I actually never learned that song. I also cannot count the months and days on my knuckles like I have seen done before. I usually just try to think what the next month is and that will usually tell me how many days are in a month."Thrity days hath September..." do you need me to finish it?
I think he was using internal Dish lingo. In other words, the Hopper series has an official "XiP" designation, with the Hopper 3 being a "ZiP" receiver.
As far as the point of an "in-between" receiver, could it be to provide an upgrade option that average subscribers can actually afford? Nah, that would make too much sense.
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