Scott Talks Joeys with Vivek Khemka (VIDEO)

[Scott Greczkowski]

Right after today's CES Press Conference I got to talk with Vivek Khemka of DISH. ANd we talked tech about the new troop of Hoppers.

Here is the video. (You can watch on the YOUTUBE site in full 1080p.)

 

[TheKrell]

Thanks Scott and Vivek! Nice interview. I have only one comment: Moca bandwidth BAH HUMBUG! Should have gone GigE long ago and stop screwing with Moca.

 

[satjay]

Great interview Scott!

Ahh though to dream of a Two Hopper/one super Joey set up! oh well

 

[Scherrman]

That was awesome. Great interview that shed some light on a lot of questions. Well done Scott.

 

[DWS44]

Very nice...thanks! :up

 

[Rey]

Very informative.

 

[mike123abc]

Interesting bandwidth issues with 2 Hopper + Super Joey on the same network, would need to either get rid of a Hopper or have them separate and unable to share recordings. I wonder if you connect everything with gigabit Ethernet if the 2 Hoppers could see each other even if on separate MOCA networks. Then of course which ones gets the super joey tuners?

Also interesting you can designate channels for home security channels.... Too bad it does not seem like recording is supported (yet?).

 

[agentc13]

Well, Dish also says that connecting two duo nodes (or a duo + solo) is a no no and will cause moca bandwidth issues.

 

[mike123abc]

Well, Dish also says that connecting two duo nodes (or a duo + solo) is a no no and will cause moca bandwidth issues.

It would be nice though if you could work around the MOCA limit with gigabit ethernet.

 

[theoak]

So, if I understand things then ... if you have all your coax come to a central box ... where you have 3 from the dish ... it would be easier just to pop in a duo node ... and then have one host out to the Hopper and the other host out to the Super Joey.

 

[TheForce]

Very nice interview, Scott. Kudos to the camera operator too!

I'll be wandering the show floor Tuesday and Wednesday.

 

[dfergie]

Very nice interview, Scott. Kudos to the camera operator too!

I'll be wandering the show floor Tuesday and Wednesday.

Thanks, we were going for the audio originally and I didn't quite get far enough back as I wanted...

 

[mike123abc]

Thanks, we were going for the audio originally and I didn't quite get far enough back as I wanted...

You were at the right distance. It was much better that the subjects were close to the camera.

 

[Rey]

Thanks, we were going for the audio originally and I didn't quite get far enough back as I wanted...

What Mike said,Don. You did great buddy.

 

[Ganthet]

Cool stuff. I have a feeling the Super Joey will take the place of the seamless dual-Hopper integration mentioned when the Hopper originally came out. I think it's pretty clever on Dish's part. They can add tuners to the Hopper, but at a lower cost than adding a second Hopper. They keep the Hopper manufacturing costs the same and still manage only one model type. From a Marketing standpoint they can really defend against any D* Genie claims about tuner count. Finally from the standpoint of an average user it is a simpler interface than two Hoppers. Very shrewd. I doubt any cost saving will be passed to us, but still...shrewd.

 

[Scherrman]

Cool stuff. I have a feeling the Super Joey will take the place of the seamless dual-Hopper integration mentioned when the Hopper originally came out. I think it's pretty clever on Dish's part. They can add tuners to the Hopper, but at a lower cost than adding a second Hopper. They keep the Hopper manufacturing costs the same and still manage only one model type. From a Marketing standpoint they can really defend against any D* Genie claims about tuner count. Finally from the standpoint of an average user it is a simpler interface than two Hoppers. Very shrewd. I doubt any cost saving will be passed to us, but still...shrewd.

I'm not so sure on them getting away from 2 Hopper installs. Right now a Plan A customer can do a Dish'N It Up promotion and get 2 Hopper with Sling receivers for free. Dish is also lowering the cost of a secondary Hopper with Sling by $100 for new customers. A new customer has to pay $199 to get a second Hopper with Sling now.

 

[theoak]

When slinging ... you use a tuner. With the SJ ... and slinging ... if all of the HWS tuners are being used, does anyone know if the HWS can route you to an unused SJ tuner? How far does "full intergration" go in this case?

 

[Scherrman]

When slinging ... you use a tuner. With the SJ ... and slinging ... if all of the HWS tuners are being used, does anyone know if the HWS can route you to an unused SJ tuner? How far does "full intergration" go in this case?

This a good question. Hopefully Scott will be able to find out some details while at the Dish booth today.

 

[theoak]

I got thinking ... it could end up being more of a settings thing. I remember with my 722, I could set the preference to record on tuner 1 first, or tuner 2. Perhaps with a HWS/SJ combo, you can set a "recording preference" to use the SJ tuners first??? We have to wait and see ...

Edit:

This way ... when slinging ... by "setting" the SJ tuners to be used first, the odds of having a free tuner on the HWS for slinging should go up quite a bit.

 

[whitewolf8214]

Great job all and very well in depth interview!!