Ah, them lol. You seriously think fios, cox and Comcast has less than 1tb of program available through vod? Then even with 2tb dish has less if you are going to count vod, the other providers don't need local storage for it. I am not sure if it was here or another forum, but I remember when I believe Comcast was saying in their commercial touting stats saying they had more hd and more programing than anyone else, they were counting vod in their stats and people were saying that was misleading, this is no different imo. And what if you don't want PTAT, then yeah you should get it back, a warning saying this is sufficient that you can't turn it back on without enough space. As Allamand said, what of the people with 2 hoppers, will they really want PTAT on both? No, only one, thats how I would have done it if I had gotten the hoppper, I watch network stuff, my father and mother do not. I am actually glad dish did not give me a deal on them, because as they say, the devil is in the details and the more i learned about how this system actually works the more i realized it was not that great of an upgrade from our old system.
Yeah, your favorite movies and shows, which you might not even want to watch because its on demand programming that you did not chose. The other guys should now include vod in all their dvr stats just like dish, they will blow dish out of the water.
Yeah, i was surprised to see people saying this, because it is filling up just as fast as my new fios dvr. They both have 500gb but dish stuff is more compressed so i thought the dish dvr would hold more, it felt that way with the 722k anyway, ota sutff took up a lot more space than sat recordings.
supposedly, but people are seeing different stats reported that point to the 250 including primetime anytime. However, if the stats are the same as the 722k, then it will be around 250, because 1 hour of a sat recording took 30min away from the time remaining, that's what I always saw anyway, and ota stuff took the whole hour away. So it would be around 250 hours of sat recordings in hd.
I think direct has more if you don't count vod or ptat, they have 5 tuners and 1tb i believe. PTAT give s you 6 during the night, but with d you get 5 to record anything you want anytime which for most people will be better. so no dish does not have more unless d also takes some away for vod, i don't know how they do things.
yeah, if price was not a factor i would prefer the direct system to be honest. But for us personally, fios was best because of the double play and since we had Dish Latino max on dish, we gained a lot of channels and hd over what we had for dish by moving, and paying less than we were paying for dish and fios internet. I already knew the fios boxes would hold less even with the same space because i had them before, i am not arguing that. I just find it is misleading that they say 2tb when they take 75% away even if you disable ptat, which some people will do. And I am not saying this just because I moved to fios, i am not a fan boy, i said this even before i was considering moving back to fios, I did not know this was the case when i was thinking of upgrading, and when i read it on here I said it was misleading, and I still feel that way. and yeah, they are including vod when they say 2000 shows and movies, fios could say the same thing.
I did go somewhere elseDish is offering a product that is far better than previous boxes. It has 500g for user recordings - about 250 hours HD (verified by the average 2g per hour that was displayed on my old 622/722 EHD lists) - plus 96 hours HD PTAT recordings in a separate partition. And you can attach an EHD with up to 2t (1,000 HD hours) additional storage that is treated as smoothly as internal storage with the new interface. That's with one Hopper, with two it doubles. What's the gripe? Where can you do better? If you don't like their use of space get a different box or go somewhere else. I'd be willing to bet that they didn't design the use of space just to irritate you - it's likely the engineers had reasons, now or in the future for the design.
. Everything you said does not make it any less misleading however.
I do think most people would prefer the way d does it. it would work better for the guy who has two tvs posting in this thread that came from 2 722s to the hopper joey and does not like it. its the same price as the hopper joey, but you get 5 instead of 3 tuners and 1tb instead of 500gb. and the second tv has its own tuner as well for live tv. when you get past the 1hopper/1joey then even more would prefer the d system because if you do what dish says and have 4tvs with 1 hopper and 3 joeys then that creates a whole other set of issues.
Anything more than one Joey on a Hopper, and that household is asking for trouble.
