Do you still have to pay the Dish DVR service fee, $12/mo. for the Hopper with Dish, if you buy the Hopper through Amazon; e.g., not through Dish?
495783
On my billing statement from Dish I now pay $7.00 per month each for (1) Hopper and (1) Joey, plus the $12.00/Mo. DVR Service Fee. On top of that the charge a Protection Plan fee of $8.00 per month. Owning the Hopper and Joey would save me ~$22.00/Mo. making the ROI for buying the equipment (~$380.00) ~18 months. Now I need to decide if I'm going to stay with DISH or if DIRECT can lure me away.
495784
You have to pay the service fee no matter who you buy it from. I purchased the unit because the dish units they install are not necessarily new and I went through 4 units from them, with varying results before I finally decided to buy my own equipment. I wanted to make sure I received a new one, with a warranty I could control.I purchased the units (Hopper w/Sling and Super Joey) from Amazon because they were brand new, and I paid less for both units than I would have paid Dish for just the Hopper w/Sling.
495785
Yes, I still pay the DVR service fee, the only reason I bought from amazon was that this place I live already had a dish service dish and it's really rural and was going to take 3 weeks for them to come out and set up the equipment. I took a chance that the dish was pointed in the right direction and bought the receiver and Joey so I could get set up as soon as amazon got me the equipment. Luckily the dish it self was in fact already dialed in. Hope this helps.
1125905
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.
1581074
Yes, it will pick up local "over the air" channels. These added channels show up on the "grid" and can be recorded on the Hopper DVR.
1630617
I doubt it. It seems as if every time Dish puts out a new DVR, along comes a new remote as well. And, my experience is that the new remote controls work only with a specific model. I would give it a try, however. I have only the VIP 922 and VIP 722 models (one of the former and two of the latter), and have found that the 922 remote will not work on the 722s. That's why I suspect you will need a Hopper specific DVR, as the remotes do not appear to be backwards compatible.
1743930
Well is doesn't record if that's what you mean, it's not a DVR, but to get it up and running, you call dish to initialize it. Hope that helps
1197908
I didn't get mine from amazon, but I think it has a one year warranty. Since I bought the lifetime subscription service, I bought an extended warranty (2 years I think) to protect my investment. Mine is directly from TiVo but you can search around for others (Squaretrade. Etc.)
1007604
No, you must purchase a new card from DTV. I think it's $20.00.Please be aware this DVR is for multi-family use only and gets the signal through ethernet, not coax. If you get your signal through coax, you cannot use this DVR.
421021
You could have just bought a hard disk and installed it in the DVR (it's easy). I got a 500GB hard drive on eBay for $45, and a 4 camera system for $130 so I paid $175 all together.
1174819
Yes it will work on dish hopper dvr system if you need adapters Amazon will supply.
1861669
Wirh TiVo you substitute their box for the Dish box and pay $15/month for the capability. You must decide if it is worth it (you still pay Dish full fare for their service.)
892472
Yes, we live in a very windy area and had no issues. We are still having issues with the multiple recordings, but we are waiting for an update. When we reviewed all the other cable/dish companies...Dish is still the best programing, customer service, price and nice to deal with. The update on the hopper issue is coming out in a couple of weeks, so we are hanging in.
1874585
I have my Dish Hopper DVR and my Blu Ray connected that way and it works beautifully. I would think that yours will too. The quality of the picture is excellent also.
1320152
Not sure I checked with directv before I bought dish to make sure it worked with my box. Some of the newer dvr HD boxes wont work as per directv, just double check with directv before you buy it.
1567040
Yes,DVR service you have to pay dish -network for it even thou you do the installatation yourself.
1602414
time warner charged me $10 for box plus $15 for dvr service plus 25 cents for remote.Now I pay $2 for cable card, $20 per month for tivo if you sign up for 2 years nothing upfront.So if regular tivo subscription is $12.95, $7 x 24 months is $168. Tivo box will cost you $168 after 2 years. And if you pay $99 and sign up for 1 year tivo box will cost you $183. I think this is not a bad deal.
1543207
There is an annual fee of $50 for this DVR or you can pay a 1 time fee for $150. The DVR with the subscription would include that fee. I have to say that my Simple.TV was returned to Amazon as it just had too many issues and frankly didn't work very well. I purchased a Channel Master DVR+ from Channel Master and it's AWESOME! I paid $250 for the DVR, $40 for the dongle (for wireless routers) and $13 for shipping= $303. Amazon is now carrying "Channel Master DVR+ Bundle for 313.99 with free shipping. If you don't need everything in the bundle you might want to shop around. This DVR has about 2 hours of recording time so an external hard drive is necessary. There is an annual fee of $50 for this DVR or you can pay a 1 time fee for $150. The DVR with the subscription would include that fee. I have to say that my Simple.TV was returned to Amazon as it just had too many issues and frankly didn't work very well. I purchased a Channel Master DVR+ from Channel Master and it's AWESOME! I paid $250 for the DVR, $40 for the dongle (for wireless routers) and $13 for shipping= $303. Amazon is now carrying "Channel Master DVR+ Bundle for 313.99 with free shipping. If you don't need everything in the bundle you might want to shop around. This DVR has... » Read More There is an annual fee of $50 for this DVR or you can pay a 1 time fee for $150. The DVR with the subscription would include that fee. I have to say that my Simple.TV was returned to Amazon as it just had too many issues and frankly didn't work very well. I purchased a Channel Master DVR+ from Channel Master and it's AWESOME! I paid $250 for the DVR, $40 for the dongle (for wireless routers) and $13 for shipping= $303. Amazon is now carrying "Channel Master DVR+ Bundle for 313.99 with free shipping. If you don't need everything in the bundle you might want to shop around. This DVR has about 2 hours of recording time so an external hard drive is necessary. « Show Less
98452
I have this attached to my Samsung DVD blu-ray and I stream videos from amazon Prime that way. I don't use it on my dish hopper - not sure if that would work or not.