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Bull_Rider
Explorer
Sep 28, 2013

Dish Network? Changing to Hopper + Joey costs.

Greetings: I will try and keep this short and to the point. Long time Dish customer. We currently have two receivers in our home. One VIP622 that we own, and one VIP722K that we lease. One ...
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Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
Sep 28, 2013
That's correct as the Hopper only has 3 tuners and the Joeys are not receiver but rather access data on the Hopper.
They advertise that you can record 6 channels "during Primetime" but this can only be accomplished by activating the PTAT option which allows one tuner to record ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox and the other 2 tuners are available for others to watch or record.
The DirecTV Genie has 5 tuners so up to 5 TV's are supported.

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