I am currently a dish customer and have 2 DVR recievers which controls 4 different tvs in my home. My bills every month have a $17 fee for the 2 dvrs ($8.50 for each reciever) and a $7 fee for the vr service. If I purchase this hopper along with 3 joeys will I still incurr the same fees? I am currently a dish customer and have 2 DVR recievers which controls 4 different tvs in my home. My bills every month have a $17 fee for the 2 dvrs ($8.50 for each reciever) and a $7 fee for the... » Read More I am currently a dish customer and have 2 DVR recievers which controls 4 different tvs in my home. My bills every month have a $17 fee for the 2 dvrs ($8.50 for each reciever) and a $7 fee for the vr service. If I purchase this hopper along with 3 joeys will I still incurr the same fees? « Show Less
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My bill was only a few dollars more for the Hopper and 2 Joey's. Until I got my first bill, which was $12 more than it should have been. I called them and they fixed it. It is still wrong for this month, but I paid what I agreed to. You should reconsider ordering the Hopper. I am not happy with it and would not recommend it to anyone right now. They update all the time, but there are several issues that are just awful and I miss my old system. Good luck!!
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My bill is $12 for each (rented) Hopper and $7 for each (rented) Joey. It doesn't seem like owning the devices affects that service fee.I would suggest renting 2 Hoppers and 2 Joeys, pairing 1 Joey to each Hopper. It's not much of a price difference ($38 vs. $33) but you don't have everything going through 1 box so you avoid the complaints about freezing and lagging. With our system (1 Hopper with Sling, 1 Hopper, 2 Joeys) we have never had an issue.
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I had almost the same set-up as you do. When I switched my bill went down 7 dollars. I had 2 dual dvr receivers, and a regular receiver. However, I switched back to them the same night. The joeys kept freezing, like every 2 minutes. I could record four shows on the one unit, but if you did not want to watch that show at the time you were stuck with the three other prime time channels in the group. If, you wanted to watch a different channel at this time, you had to take over a TV in the other room. I called them that night and went back to my old set-up the same week. I would say stay away from the hopper. I had almost the same set-up as you do. When I switched my bill went down 7 dollars. I had 2 dual dvr receivers, and a regular receiver. However, I switched back to them the same night. The joeys kept freezing, like every 2 minutes. I could record four shows on the one unit, but if you did not want to watch that show at the time you were stuck with the three other prime time channels in the group. If, you wanted to watch a different channel at this time, you had to take over a TV in the other room. I called them that night and went back to my old set-up the same week. I would say stay away... » Read More I had almost the same set-up as you do. When I switched my bill went down 7 dollars. I had 2 dual dvr receivers, and a regular receiver. However, I switched back to them the same night. The joeys kept freezing, like every 2 minutes. I could record four shows on the one unit, but if you did not want to watch that show at the time you were stuck with the three other prime time channels in the group. If, you wanted to watch a different channel at this time, you had to take over a TV in the other room. I called them that night and went back to my old set-up the same week. I would say stay away from the hopper. « Show Less
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Anne, I bought my unit directly from PhonePower. I got The grandstream Voip adapter and I got the 2 year deal for 199.95(pre-paid). It comes out to about $8.33/ month. I do have taxes and fees that I am responsible for in the second year, which was around $55. So for 2 years of great phone service I paid about $255. (about $10/month). If you want to pay month to month to try it out it is $19.95/month. If after a few months you decide you do not like it you just send back their equipment.(..SAVE THE ORIGINAL BOX!!!). I have had them ,going on my 6th year and I love the price I am paying for what I get. Anne, I bought my unit directly from PhonePower. I got The grandstream Voip adapter and I got the 2 year deal for 199.95(pre-paid). It comes out to about $8.33/ month. I do have taxes and fees that I am responsible for in the second year, which was around $55. So for 2 years of great phone service I paid about $255. (about $10/month). If you want to pay month to month to try it out it is $19.95/month. If after a few months you decide you do not like it you just send back their equipment.(..SAVE THE ORIGINAL BOX!!!). I have had them ,going on my 6th year and I love the price I am... » Read More Anne, I bought my unit directly from PhonePower. I got The grandstream Voip adapter and I got the 2 year deal for 199.95(pre-paid). It comes out to about $8.33/ month. I do have taxes and fees that I am responsible for in the second year, which was around $55. So for 2 years of great phone service I paid about $255. (about $10/month). If you want to pay month to month to try it out it is $19.95/month. If after a few months you decide you do not like it you just send back their equipment.(..SAVE THE ORIGINAL BOX!!!). I have had them ,going on my 6th year and I love the price I am paying for what I get. « Show Less
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YES, buy it today if you're a bit computer smart. I (re)record my Dish DVR movies 'to the computer' and never, ever... go to the effort to burn DVDs from these... too much trouble. People should get into burning satelliteDVR to computer, then playback from computer to HDTV, in my opinion anyway. This inexpensive box has 'recorded' many 'premium' dishnet shows via the component cables, no copyprotection issues. Good luck. Lots of terrible reviews .. I may have been lucky but I bought mine from Frys at $200 two years ago.
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Here is a FREE option is you don't want to pay Tivo the $15 a month ripoff charge. >>> http://www.channelmaster.com/ http://www.cnet.com/products/channel-master-dvr-plus/ We love our Channel Master DVR+ . The upfront cost is a bit high ($250) but when you figure in saving the $15 a month that Tivo rips off their customers , it pays for itself in the long run.
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We have a dual receiver at home ("free") and bought the 2nd receiver for our trailer. I activate the 2nd receiver when we are going to use it and deactivate it when we do not. No cost to activate or deactivate, but Dish charges $7.00 a month when you activate it whether it is for one day or the month.
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Yes, they charge monthly fee, I believe $14. Or you can pay for a lifetime subscription, last I looked it was $499. What you are paying for is the update of the Tivo's channel guide. You can only store 2 weeks worth of guide at a time, so with the subscription it contacts their servers and keeps you up to date with shows coming on. I love mine, make sure you get the one with the right amount of tuners, meaning 4 tuners=record 4 shows at a time, 2 tuners=record 2 shows at a time.
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The Dish functions for this IR remote work fine with Hopper/Joey as long as go into their menus and select IR under the Remote section. It does not work to set the TV codes through the Hoppe/Joey but you can do them the old way. Using one of these IR remotes in same room as Hopper/Joey then using the 40.1 that came with the receiver as a UHF remote for mirroring the signal to another room is great. Either use a 3/4 modulator, component out or a HDMI splitter to accomplish the mirror. I have done all three - very easy
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You need to have dish network service. This Joey needs a Hopper from Dish to work
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If you have Dish at home, you call and tell them you want to use a Tailgaterin your RV . There is a $10 monthly fee. You place it outside in a southerly direction with no obstacles, maybe 10 feet from RV. You must have a Dish rec. your cable runs to the rec. then, turn it on, and it asks for location. There are instructions in the box. My husband does it, so I really just enjoy the results. Works for us as we are traveling often. I paid $350 for the Tailgator and $100 for a rec. it's light in weight and doesn't take up much room.That's about as good an explanation as I can give.
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You will need to pay for Roamio service at $15 per month unless you buy the lifetime... Plus you will need a cable card from your cable provider to see their provided channels. Then the mini will share one of the tuners at no additional cable company cost. All in all that is usually cheaper than renting a DVR or two from the cable company... I've had TiVo's for many years and like them much better that cable DVRs.
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Once you have a dish setup for all your homes, then all you need to do is take your receiver from any location (ANY STATE)to any of your homes regardless the state and it will work, KEEP IN MIND if you don't call Direct-TV and have it updated to that local area you won't get local channels, it will be trying to pull in the other locations local channels in which you won't get either....... Really simple and we do this twice yearly ourself; we go between Arizona & Oregon in an RV that also have a Satellite Dish(tailgater type dome model) on top and it automatically locks onto the satellite needed, so we use same Receiver between AZ and OREGON and every where we go in between...... :) Once you have a dish setup for all your homes, then all you need to do is take your receiver from any location (ANY STATE)to any of your homes regardless the state and it will work, KEEP IN MIND if you don't call Direct-TV and have it updated to that local area you won't get local channels, it will be trying to pull in the other locations local channels in which you won't get either....... Really simple and we do this twice yearly ourself; we go between Arizona & Oregon in an RV that also have a Satellite Dish(tailgater type dome model) on top and it automatically locks onto the satellite... » Read More Once you have a dish setup for all your homes, then all you need to do is take your receiver from any location (ANY STATE)to any of your homes regardless the state and it will work, KEEP IN MIND if you don't call Direct-TV and have it updated to that local area you won't get local channels, it will be trying to pull in the other locations local channels in which you won't get either....... Really simple and we do this twice yearly ourself; we go between Arizona & Oregon in an RV that also have a Satellite Dish(tailgater type dome model) on top and it automatically locks onto the satellite needed, so we use same Receiver between AZ and OREGON and every where we go in between...... :) « Show Less
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I've got the same question as Jonathan -- does this DVRRecorder pick up cable channels? will it get the 500s-700s? If so, I'm ready to buy! :-DI don't get decent reception antenna only so I have to use cable, much as I hate shelling out to Comcast every month I'm stuck with them. ;-p I've been resisting TIVO b/c I don't want to pay an additional monthly subscription fee. Why would anyone pay monthly for Tivo if you can do the same thing for free with a DVDRecorder like this one?
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Shows are available immediately.There is a Forum @ Dishnetwork.com you should probably read before getting one. Dishnetwork>Support>Forums>hopper & Joey
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"What am i getting for that charge?" You're getting ripped off. I'm a long-time TiVo user, having purchased my first Series 1 in 1999 and upgrading several times. I've suggested TiVo purchases to dozens of people over the years. Unfortunately, TiVo is seriously behind the current technology and still has a very closed ecosystem. To make up for their lack of up to date technology and closed ecosystem, they increase their service and lifetime fees. It's not a good business plan, which in part explains their stock price. For anyone with a little bit of technical know-how, it's far more cost effective to get an HTPC and TV tuner. If you are going to record OTA, most tuners will be fine. If you need a cable card, the HDHomeRun works very well. Many services on an HTPC will get you free program guide information. An HTPC is also more open, so it opens up more possibilities. It's also much more future-proof than TiVo's closed ecosystem. TiVo has a long history of not upgrading software except on the latest model in an effort to pry more money from existing TiVo subscribers through upgrades.
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A Dish Supervisor explained that the charges are structured to receivers. The first is free and subsequent receivers carry a monthly charge. The charge is considered as an access charge and not equipment rental. In other words, there is no apparent advantage to purchasing my own vip-722k. I made this purchase based on something that I apparently misunderstood when talking with a Dish representative 2 years ago.
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I own the unit as I purchased it on Amazon BUT, DirecTV will charge you the monthly fee of $6 to use it. When they installed the Genie, they gave me one unit free plus the monthly charge for a remote client. I wanted to add another client in a guest room so I bought one but DirecTV had to come install it (they have to turn on the clients for you) and then added the additional $6 a month for the usage. Yes, it's a rip off in the first degree. I could not find a work around. I installed it and when I went to add an additional client, the message said I was not authorized to have more than one client on the system. Call Customer Support for assistance. Now you know that they "gotcha". still cheaper to buy your own from Amazon than from DTV. Hope this helps. J.
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you can pay monthly, i don't know the price, probably 15???? or you can pay upfront, for the life of the unit, which is what i did, 500 if you dont have an existing tivo or 400 if you do, i did so it was 400 for life of the unit subscription. i don't know the cost of the new tivo subscriptions, there is a new model, probably more expensive. i just got Western Digital dvr expander, and hooked it up to my premier tivo for more memory, 99 here on amazon, very happy with it.