Signal Protector

[naptime]

Had the notice for the first time to switch to streaming when a thunderstorm rolled in this afternoon, and I selected it. I did not watch constantly, but I never noticed when it went back to satellite. Is there a way to tell if the program is still streaming or not?

 

[thomasjk]

Had the notice for the first time to switch to streaming when a thunderstorm rolled in this afternoon, and I selected it. I did not watch constantly, but I never noticed when it went back to satellite. Is there a way to tell if the program is still streaming or not?

Press info. If it says No Recording it's streaming. There is a message that pops up when the satellite signal is restored. Click on it to switch back.

 

[ekilgus]

Interestingly, last night a storm interrupted my watching of the 1939 movie Stagecoach on TCM. The Hopper switched to streaming, then notified me when the sat signal was restored. But it also said I might lose a bit of the movie, which I did. The interesting part was that the streaming feed was behind the Dish feed, so when the sat signal was restored, I lost several seconds of movie. I would have thought it would be the other way around, that the Dish feed would be behind the streaming feed. I hope I'm making sense.

 

[MikeD-C05]

Never too late. Sign back up. Hopper 3 is awesome.

I would if it didn't cost so much a month with the fees included.

 

[navychop]

Does this work with an unattended DVR recording?

 

[n0qcu]

Does this work with an unattended DVR recording?

No since you cannot record when you’re streaming

 

[n0qcu]

Interestingly, last night a storm interrupted my watching of the 1939 movie Stagecoach on TCM. The Hopper switched to streaming, then notified me when the sat signal was restored. But it also said I might lose a bit of the movie, which I did. The interesting part was that the streaming feed was behind the Dish feed, so when the sat signal was restored, I lost several seconds of movie. I would have thought it would be the other way around, that the Dish feed would be behind the streaming feed. I hope I'm making sense.

That’s to be expected since streaming is always delayed from live

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Does this work with an unattended DVR recording?

No as the streams can not be recorded.... (yet)

 

[charlesrshell]

I would if it didn't cost so much a month with the fees included.

I hear ya. For us, we love TV. I treat Dish & streaming apps as a hobby. Our Dish system is set up for convience and we subscribe to seven no commercial apps. Plus we have two Firesticks for backup. In our golden years we sink a lot of our budget into our TV set up and cut back on coffee a little, if need be.

 

[navychop]

“No recording while streaming”

DUH! :headslap

 

[dishdude]

I would if it didn't cost so much a month with the fees included.

That's why I have the Wally, it's a poor man's Hopper! Does all the same stuff. 4 tuners are enough, I can barely find one thing to watch at a time let alone 16!

 

[MikeD-C05]

I hear ya. For us, we love TV. I treat Dish & streaming apps as a hobby. Our Dish system is set up for convience and we subscribe to seven no commercial apps. Plus we have two Firesticks for backup. In our golden years we sink a lot of our budget into our TV set up and cut back on coffee a little, if need be.

I put 25 years in paying for satellite TV and yes it was my hobby too. But the costs out weigh the worth in this case. I have always hated the DVR fees that we weren't supposed to ever have to pay and I hated the additional receiver fees when they went to $7.00. I really hated when I had three dvr receivers and they wanted to charge us the dvr fee per receiver. I think that DISH should of let us pay no additional receiver fees if we bought our own receivers. The DVR fee was affordable at $5.00 but at $15.00 is too much. That was everything on DISH side of fees.

Now the programming channels are no longer a value to me, since most of them show reruns and informercials and reality tv. When there was scripted shows on networks like USA and Tnt and TBS it was worth a bit, but now it isn't worth the money to watch old network reruns. If I want to watch that, I can watch Pluto with ads or Freevie or Tubi, and its all free. Lets face it cable and satellite have peaked and it's all down hill from here. The channel owners and local channels got greedy and they have killed the goose that laid the golden egg.

Streaming is the way for now and it will only last as long as they don't try to reassemble cable packs ,which they are trying to do with bundles and start hiking the prices , which they are doing as well. So they are on their way to killing the second golden goose. The difference today is that younger generations don't care about Live tv or cable or satellite packs. They stay with a pack long enough to watch what they want and then cancel. Anyone that wants locals can put an antenna up and use Tablo or Air tv to record them for free. We watch more of the locals anyway.

I only subscribe to Hulu , Disney+ , Paramount w ads and Amazon prime with free shipping. When I am through with shows on Paramount we cancel. Hulu my parents pay for so they can use it at their house and Disney + my wife and son love so we can't cut those . Netflix with ads is paid for by T-mobile my cell phone carrier. But honestly I don't even watch it that much.

 

[MikeD-C05]

That's why I have the Wally, it's a poor man's Hopper! Does all the same stuff. 4 tuners are enough, I can barely find one thing to watch at a time let alone 16!

I never had a need for 16 tuners when I used my Hopper 3. My friend has the older Hopper 2 with sling and it only has 3 tuners. He can record 3 satellite channels and 2 ota = 5. I used to have the Super joey and we gained two more sat tuners with that one. But if you have to have a hopper the Hopper 3 is the way to go because it is faster and it pretty much eliminates conflicts.

 

[Universe93B]

That's why I have the Wally, it's a poor man's Hopper! Does all the same stuff. 4 tuners are enough, I can barely find one thing to watch at a time let alone 16!

Is the Wally as fast as the Hopper 3? I'm surprised at the speed of the Hopper 3, even when I use a Joey connected to it. Then again, I'm coming from the original Hopper from 2013 that got bogged down from more processor-intensive software updates.

 

[charlesrshell]

I put 25 years in paying for satellite TV and yes it was my hobby too. But the costs out weigh the worth in this case. I have always hated the DVR fees that we weren't supposed to ever have to pay and I hated the additional receiver fees when they went to $7.00. I really hated when I had three dvr receivers and they wanted to charge us the dvr fee per receiver. I think that DISH should of let us pay no additional receiver fees if we bought our own receivers. The DVR fee was affordable at $5.00 but at $15.00 is too much. That was everything on DISH side of fees.

Now the programming channels are no longer a value to me, since most of them show reruns and informercials and reality tv. When there was scripted shows on networks like USA and Tnt and TBS it was worth a bit, but now it isn't worth the money to watch old network reruns. If I want to watch that, I can watch Pluto with ads or Freevie or Tubi, and its all free. Lets face it cable and satellite have peaked and it's all down hill from here. The channel owners and local channels got greedy and they have killed the goose that laid the golden egg.

Streaming is the way for now and it will only last as long as they don't try to reassemble cable packs ,which they are trying to do with bundles and start hiking the prices , which they are doing as well. So they are on their way to killing the second golden goose. The difference today is that younger generations don't care about Live tv or cable or satellite packs. They stay with a pack long enough to watch what they want and then cancel. Anyone that wants locals can put an antenna up and use Tablo or Air tv to record them for free. We watch more of the locals anyway.

I only subscribe to Hulu , Disney+ , Paramount w ads and Amazon prime with free shipping. When I am through with shows on Paramount we cancel. Hulu my parents pay for so they can use it at their house and Disney + my wife and son love so we can't cut those . Netflix with ads is paid for by T-mobile my cell phone carrier. But honestly I don't even watch it that much.

I hear ya on the DVR fees. For about six years we had four 722s and the bill was over $200 a month. Finally got the bill down some when we switched to the HWSs in 2013.

 

[dishdude]

Is the Wally as fast as the Hopper 3? I'm surprised at the speed of the Hopper 3, even when I use a Joey connected to it. Then again, I'm coming from the original Hopper from 2013 that got bogged down from more processor-intensive software updates.

Depends on the day, but overall I'd say it's slow. The guide can sometimes take a second or two to come up, but the DVR functions work great. It's fine overall, I don't have any problems with it. Apparently there are two different versions of Wallys and one has a faster processor.

 

[telstar_1]

It works at my friends house. We were at his house and a rain storm hit and he had the TV on Cable News and the message popped up on the screen and I told him hit it. He did and we were back watching streaming news. Wish they had this years ago for the 25 years I had DISH.

But if they had this 25 years ago there would not now be DiSH. I would predict that steaming capabilities will continue to sophisticate and that all of the convenience capabilities as seen with DiSH DVR will eventually come.

 

[Almighty1]

Except with Sling TV - DISH 's sister service. I always wondered why they didn't transition all the satellite service to this capability and make it stream with the nicer guides and menus and graphics that DISH has. They could use a cloud dvr instead of physical one. Then in stead of joeys and other receivers you would just need the streaming app and internet connection. Maybe they could do this when the satellite part of the service isn't profitable any longer. I dislike the Sling TV gray guides and the jumbled way the channels are presented. DISH has always looked better and you can create many favorite guides to suit you. Sling needs improving and Combining the best of DISH with the streaming capability of Sling TV would be the best of both. Might be where they are headed with the end of physical media.

Because the storage capacity would be limited, you can't add external HDDs for example and the other thing is it will have internet bandwidth costs as it will no longer have a dedicated pipe for the tv feed which means if the internet failed, so would the tv service. Currently, having a internet connection is not a requirement to view TV. Internet bandwidth may not be fast enough as it depends a lot on the routing on where it peers and if there is congestion latency on the many networks it connects through. All someone needs to do is send a DDoS attack on one or more networks between you and DISH and you will not have a usable internet service. or a Fiber Cut so basically any internet issue will also not allow you to watch tv as everything depends on that internet connection instead of the tv and internet each having dedicated individual connections. Some people may not be able to get Internet Service that meets the minimal requirements and some people have internet connections that are capped meaning a limited amount of data is included in what they pay before they have to pay additional for excess data to name a few things.

 

[Almighty1]

You can skip back and then ffw. But no skipping commercials otherwise. You can pause the feed but you can't record it.

Interesting. The last time I tried channels with "STREAM" which includes one of the DISHScapes channels and it did not allow Skip Back or FFW, only live.

 

[Almighty1]

Interestingly, last night a storm interrupted my watching of the 1939 movie Stagecoach on TCM. The Hopper switched to streaming, then notified me when the sat signal was restored. But it also said I might lose a bit of the movie, which I did. The interesting part was that the streaming feed was behind the Dish feed, so when the sat signal was restored, I lost several seconds of movie. I would have thought it would be the other way around, that the Dish feed would be behind the streaming feed. I hope I'm making sense.

The reason is the satellite feed is direct from DISH. The internet feed goes through many networks before it reaches you so there will be latency added depending on how many networks it goes through and it needs to download first and not everyone will start at the exact same time so it will not be 100% live but will be slightly delayed.