What kind of Hopper is this?

[pattykay]

But once you activate it, you have to pay DVR fees when they clearly won't work on the receiver. Is it worth it?

If I activate it, Dish might send me a working one as a free replacement. I would like to see if I could get this one to work again, though. I have had a 501 (and more recently, a ViP722k) recover from hard drive failure before. Last year, another Satelliteguys member sent me a flaky ViP211, and I got it to work for a few more months before it died again. It is a hobby of mine.

Whoops, I confused the two of you! My apologies...

Not the first time that has happened.

 

[AlaJoe]

I would say chances are (Based on the fact better than 99% of dish equipment is Leased not owned) it is a Lease that someone did not turn in so even if it worked I do not think you could activate it.

 

[comfortably_numb]

I would say chances are (Based on the fact better than 99% of dish equipment is Leased not owned) it is a Lease that someone did not turn in so even if it worked I do not think you could activate it.

It is NOT a leased item. You must have missed my post that I called Denver corporate, they ran the RID and smart card and it is owned.

 

[n0qcu]

I would say chances are (Based on the fact better than 99% of dish equipment is Leased not owned) it is a Lease that someone did not turn in so even if it worked I do not think you could activate it.

Maybe if you would actually have read the first post you would see that it is owned according to DISH.

 

[pattykay]

I am not worried. I have a contact at Dish corporate who could probably get it activated outside of Dish's normal protocol, anyway. I did read the first post, and I have dealt with comfortably_numb before, so I trust him.

 

[ChadT41]

Future reference:
Hopper Blockbuster= Hopper 2000
Hopper Sling= Hopper with Sling
Hopper3 with Sling= Hopper3

Hope this settles it in the future.

Edit to add Crod’s point, which is entirely accurate.

...and if it just says "Hopper" and has the red racing stripe, it is a Hopper Duo. Now the list is complete.

 

[pattykay]

Future reference:
Hopper Blockbuster= Hopper 2000
Hopper Sling= Hopper with Sling
Hopper3 with Sling= Hopper3

Hope this settles it in the future.

...and if it just says "Hopper" and has the red racing stripe, it is a Hopper Duo. Now the list is complete.

 

[ChadT41]

...and if it just says "Hopper" and has the red racing stripe, it is a Hopper Duo. Now the list is complete.

I’m going to add this into my post.

 

[trojan67]

Disconnected my H3 and connected the coax to this mystery Hopper. It boots up but then says “hard drive failure.” I can close out of the error screen and watch live TV, though. Guess that’s why it was in his closet! Looks like it’s going to the dumpster.

Don't throw it away i will take it

 

[comfortably_numb]

Don't throw it away i will take it

I already promised it to crodrules sorry!

 

[pattykay]

Don't throw it away i will take it

Too late. You snooze, you lose!

 

[trojan67]

Too late. You snooze, you lose!

You're correct was sleeping, i woke up, went straight to this site, saw the post, reply to it, was late, you first me