Hopper 3 and Wally

[dvrman]

David Zatz's blog Zatznotfunny has info from the FCC about a hopper 3 to be announced at CES 2016 with Zigbee (home automation ?), bluetooth , dual band wifi and maybe 4K ?
ANyone have other rumors ?

 

[stardust3]

Tomorrows retailer chat may reveal a little more info. In addition to" Upcoming changes to Offers, Pricing and Equipment" they will also be discussing "2016 Consumer Electronics Show" & "2016 Team Summit preview".

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I have to remember to tune in to the retailer chat tomorrow then.

 

[bobvick]

Be interesting to find out what "Wally" is.

 

[stardust3]

Wally.......http://zatznotfunny.com/2015-12/dish-wally-headed-to-ces/

 

[navychop]

I'm hoping for Internet fallback. And be interesting to see if the Wally can control portable self aiming sat antennas.

And a keyboard/pointing device would be great, so I can type in "NASA" and not have to remember the channel. And it might even make Facebook useable on the Hopper.

 

[ChadT41]

I'm hoping for Internet fallback. And be interesting to see if the Wally can control portable self aiming sat antennas.

And a keyboard/pointing device would be great, so I can type in "NASA" and not have to remember the channel. And it might even make Facebook useable on the Hopper.

Not sure you are gonna get that. From the link, "Given the available intel, we suspect Wally is the DISH 211 heir apparent sporting the Hopper UI."

 

[Bodo Fenrirsson]

I tried to ask this before, but my Kindle Fire has a mind of its own, & I had to delete the message. Anyway, would the new Wally allow you to see & play recordings from your Hopper, if anybody knows the answer?

 

[Hall]

I don't see the point of it doing that. That's what a Joey or since it has a tuner, a Super Joey is for.

 

[stardust3]

Wally could resemble the genie lite imo.

For example a 4 room new directv customer that doesn't want a dvr will get a genie lite and 3 mini genies unless they pay out of pocket a 1 time upgrade fee for regular boxes.

With the new hopper and the wally, dish may have their own version of the genie lite. Time will tell.

 

[Bodo Fenrirsson]

Yes, but the idea that I'm getting at is, like with the Directv Genie, getting a 2 tuner DVR &/or 1 tuner receiver allows for you to be able to have TV to watch if the Genie goes out & needs to be replaced. The Wally should work(?) on the same principle. It has an independent tuner that continues to work if your Hopper goes out. The trade-off would be the same that you had when you first started hooking up 2 Hoppers to the same set-up, except you could set up recordings for the Hopper, but it would be its own independent box, it wouldn't be an extension of the Hopper like the Joey & Super Joey are. You watch TV from the Wally's own tuner, & recordings only from the Hopper on the Wally. Also, you'd still need to go to the Hopper itself to fine tune any recording that you scheduled from the Wally unlike being able to do all of that from the Joey(I'm assuming that the Joey works on the same principle as the Genie Client). If the Wally was the Hopper Lite, it would have 3 tuners without the ability to record, unless you can hook up an external hard drive, like with the Genie Lite, to then turn it into a DVR.

 

[Bodo Fenrirsson]

The ultimate dream set up would be the DPH hybrid LNB, 2 Hoppers if possible, or a Hopper & a Super Joey at least, & as many Wallys as the DPH allows. Or go with the regular LNB set up if the new hybrid LNB's do not like/work with the extra tuners that come with the Wallys in addition to the 2 Hoppers or Hopper/Super Joey combo.

 

[rglore]

I believe Wally is just the replacement for the 211 and can not be used with a Hopper system.

 

[ChadT41]

Unless more information trickles down, before CES, I am with rglore

 

[navychop]

That naming seems to imply, to me, some connection to the Hopper family.

 

[DWS44]

That naming seems to imply, to me, some connection to the Hopper family.

True, but could just be that it shares the new UI with the Hopper system.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

They announced on the retailer chat that indeed there will be a new Hopper introduced at CES, however no details were given.

 

[Troch77]

They announced on the retailer chat that indeed there will be a new Hopper introduced at CES, however no details were given.

We'll be sure to look for it sometime in 2017.

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[stardust3]

At the end of the day I knew there would be more questions than answers. Any word on wally?

 

[JosephB]

Connecting Wallys to Hoppers doesn't make sense. It's just meant to be a stand alone non-DVR receiver, primarily for RVs and business installations. If you need connectivity to a Hopper, that's precisely what Joeys and Super Joeys are for. I'm not quite sure what you'd be trying to accomplish by using a Wally instead of a Joey.