Try that with a 56+ old year who just got a 4k along with his order of Cialis who claims he used to be an engineer and you don't know nothing.
or his sore groined wife.
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Try that with a 56+ old year who just got a 4k along with his order of Cialis who claims he used to be an engineer and you don't know nothing.
or his sore groined wife.
Lol. As long as you don't call in going "I know how everythingn works and I know what is wrong and I won't do any troubleshooting and resetting will not fix anything at all", you're alright. But typically, yes, the biggest pita's were those two. They never wanted to do anything(I always even accepted the answer that they had already done certain steps, but they refused to even perform them.). I got one story I could tell you that would make you laugh and understand the BS said over the phone. For some reason, people just do not want to do a few basic steps before having a replacement sent, and no one ever wants a tech, when "they know" it's the box. 9/10 we were required to send a tech, but oh well, it helped my rate for bad tech calls, when they got the replacement and things like sigloss still happened and needed to realign. This wasn't every situation, just very particular ones. Not all y'all are bad. Lol.
Any plans to support chromecast with dish anywhere on android devices? I haven't tried it in a while but it didn't support it the last time I tried it.
This would be my situation. My main TV is my new 4K TV and I'd have to swap out the Hopper with one of my Joeys. It wouldn't be a huge deal I suppose but it just makes more sense to have my Hopper at the main TV. We do enjoy using the PIP feature.
Other than PIP, is there any reason it matters where the Hopper is located ? I don't think there is. I didn't think of PIP (you can guess how much we use it !).
I don't think so, other than maybe blue tooth at the moment. To me it's just a habit of having the main receiver always be at my main TV. It's like my own hierarchy in the house. Kinda OCD.
It does have a HDD, so if you want a solid state device with absolutely no noise or minimal heat, the Hopper is not the device.
Esp in a quiet bedroom. You cant stand it upright and its bigger too.
In the 4K Joey fact sheet Scott linked to it said not only will it have PIP but native Bluetooth support, so it seems they are trying to eliminate the downsides of a TV not being directly connected to a Hopper.
Well, well.... It sounds like a winner to me. I may have to consider swapping out my regular Joey for a 4k Joey and then do some rearranging of my equipment. I'd like to take advantage of my new TV.
Nope.
Their contacts with programmers prevent them from streaming and showing programming which can be displayed on a television.
Yeah dumb and it's getting hard to tell the difference between a computer and a tv.
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Dish anywhere works with Apple TV. Is this just something's that works without Dish having to do anything. You do get a message saying to switch to the HD stream that seems to come from the Dish anywhere app. That could be just to run on the Apple device and have nothing to do with Air Play.
Any way in sure would be nice for us who travel a lot to be able to plug something like Chromecast into a motel TV
Any way in sure would be nice for us who travel a lot to be able to plug something like Chromecast into a motel TV
Not quite sure why the programmers care since Dish limits folks to one stream via sling per capable receiver (or is it on the account? hmmm). And it's not like it's hard to display output from a PC to a TV since HDMI outputs are pretty much standard on most PCs built in the past couple of years. Oh well, it is what it is.
Ahh! Great info you've shared. So, yes, it does seem that the Hopper just can't handle 4K for valid technical reasons, or at least handle it to dependable degree. Also, I forgot about H.265. Yes, 4K can be transmitted via DBS using H.264, but that would require "bonding" of at lest TWO transponders, and that is very inefficient while H.265 only requires ONE transponder. I don't doubt the Dish may working on prototypes for a "4K" Hopper" with latest specs, etc.
Yes, I agree that Dish is implanting 4K today in the preferred and cost effective way of using a new Joey instead of requiring a whole new Hopper. My only concern is what the cost of the NEW Joey would be, and would a subscriber need to pay monthly fees for BOTH the Hopper and 4K Joey if BOTH are at the SAME 4K TV? I hope not. I hope Dish would waive ONE of the monthly box fees if they are installed at the SAME 4K TV, but fair enough for Dish to charge monthly for each box if those boxes are at different TV's than where a Hopper is also connected.
