New Hopper?
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Can I ask why do you need these on the Hopper?
Doesn't the Hopper with sling have Bluetooth?
Can't you just use your smartphone?
let me explain why i listen to siriusxm bluegrass junction on my bluetooth headphones and they play the same songs all the time.with tunein radio you can listen to over 100,000 radio stations there is a bluegrass stations that i listen to after 2pm after i get back from the gym and there playlists are alot better than bluegrass junction is.iheart would be great to listen to stations that are not listed on tunein.slacker more a variety of artists on there. spotify listen to on my computer there should be a searchable database with artists albums you can listen to i tried to explain it the best i can for you guys.
Any additional app would have to be licensed for the Hopper which involves money changing hands usually. Dish just cannot take any app they want and stick it into their equipment without getting permission to use it. They gave you Pandora and SiriusXM and their own music channels already and yet you want more? There are already enough music options on the Hopper in my opinion to meet anyone's needs, especially Pandora which allows you to customize your own channel experience.
As these are all competitive with DISH's subscription services at some level, do you think this is reasonable? I sure don't.
As I said earlier, just get a Android TV box and go to town. That way we don't have to suffer the development pains of something that most of us already have access to through other means. The companies that do streamers for a living are surely better suited to developing and maintaining streaming apps. DISH is in the business of supporting their products and I'm not in favor of chasing after stuff that distracts them from that business.
SSDs both suck and blow for DVR applications.
- They don't do well with large files
- They don't do well when they get much over 75% full (so you must use considerably larger capacities)
- They haven't proven to be any more resistant to failure than Winchester drives
- There is a certain overhead involved in maintaining SSDs that isn't an issue with Winchester mechanisms (trimming).
- The manufacturing cost of the current Hopper with a 2.5TB SSD would be well over $1,000.
Our HWS usually stays between 75-95% full. It is quite common that we save entire seasons to watch later. In all honesty no matter what the size is we will fill it up.
I usually have to go through every few months and delete stuff that I know we won't ever watch, but it is nice to have the option if we decide to watch it.
You can simply save all that content to an EHD or two and be done with it. You are not the average viewer..... I believe that the current Hopper HD size is optimial....
You don't seem to understand how this works. Someone has to develop the apps specifically for the Hopper. Adding an "app store" doesn't mean that magically hundreds of thousands of apps can be copied to it.
Can't add them manually (by inputting their direct channel #). I think for most this isn't a big deal. Where it's an issue is for people who have to rotate their antenna to receive add'l channel. What happens is you 1) scan, 2) save the channels, 3) rotate the antenna, 4) scan again, the first set of channels you saved are erased and replaced with the new set of channels. What people want to do is steps 1, 2, and 3, and then manually input the channels they know are in that new direction.
Most likely new with new Hopper IMHO:
1. MoCA 2.0 (Gigabit bandwidth)
2. HDMI 2.0a
3. Wallaby?: (coming to ALL Hoppers) Mirroring feature (able to mirror what is on ONE of your TV's to another TV or mobile device IN HOME LAN only.
4. More tuners: specifically ability to install 2 Hoppers and one Super Joey for 8 sat tuners possible with MoCA 2.0.
5. Additional streams beyond the current 3 in Hopper whole home, meaning that 4 or more people in 6 or more rooms can simultaneously access tuners and recordings at the same time, easily supported with MoCA 2.0.
Stuff not likely, but would like to see in new Hopper:
1. Additional tuners native/built-in tuners in EACH new Hopper. 6 built-in sat tuners in a single new Hopper would be nice.
2. TWO OTA tuners USB dongle support.
3. Option for integrating all Hoppers and Super Joey into a SINGLE whole home DVR.
4. Separate module for adding additional tuners (perhaps 2 or 3 more) to existing Hoppers without need of a Super Joey.
5. Allow Dish App for Roku/FireTV other connected devices to pretty much function as a Joey with no additional charge, but limited to ONE user at a time. I think Comcast has something like this, and TiVo also released such an app with very few restrictions.
6. Apps for Amazon and YouTube (continuing the trend Dish started by offering the Netflix app).
7. Support for VoIP telephones Caller ID.
1. MoCA 2.0 (Gigabit bandwidth)
2. HDMI 2.0a
3. Wallaby?: (coming to ALL Hoppers) Mirroring feature (able to mirror what is on ONE of your TV's to another TV or mobile device IN HOME LAN only.
4. More tuners: specifically ability to install 2 Hoppers and one Super Joey for 8 sat tuners possible with MoCA 2.0.
5. Additional streams beyond the current 3 in Hopper whole home, meaning that 4 or more people in 6 or more rooms can simultaneously access tuners and recordings at the same time, easily supported with MoCA 2.0.
Stuff not likely, but would like to see in new Hopper:
1. Additional tuners native/built-in tuners in EACH new Hopper. 6 built-in sat tuners in a single new Hopper would be nice.
2. TWO OTA tuners USB dongle support.
3. Option for integrating all Hoppers and Super Joey into a SINGLE whole home DVR.
4. Separate module for adding additional tuners (perhaps 2 or 3 more) to existing Hoppers without need of a Super Joey.
5. Allow Dish App for Roku/FireTV other connected devices to pretty much function as a Joey with no additional charge, but limited to ONE user at a time. I think Comcast has something like this, and TiVo also released such an app with very few restrictions.
6. Apps for Amazon and YouTube (continuing the trend Dish started by offering the Netflix app).
7. Support for VoIP telephones Caller ID.
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As UHD support seems unlikely, this would be a wasted effort.
How does this differ from slinging?
I see this as unlikely. With all of the repeats of most popular cable shows, it seems pointless if you're only serving an average household.
I suspect that there is a practical limit as to how many clients a DVR can drive with a possible mixture of HD and UHD content being sent out over the network.
The issue of all your eggs in one basket must not be dismissed.
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