After I posted this thread I have kept asking how they could make the Hopper better... and honestly its hard to answer I mean how can you make the best made DVR better? Sure the software needs some tweaking but that's par for the course.
More tuners? Would be nice to have 5, but honestly having 2 hoppers is so much better then having one. More drive space plus redundancy so if one Hopper fails you can still watch tv in your house. It would however be nice to have 2 Hopper merge together seamlessly as one. You should not need to know which Hopper you are watching from, you should just turn on your Joey and watch TV and access all your recordings.
Wireless Keyboard? Yes this would be nice! I don't understand why they don't have support now for wireless USB keyboards. It would make things a lot more enjoyable especially in their social apps.
More Apps?! Yes! Now that Blockbuster has failed, would it really hurt DISH to offer a Netflix app on the Hopper? Of for that matter an App store which let me pick and choose which apps I want! I recently got a Samsung Smart TV and am blown away by the apps it offers, why cant I do that on my Hopper and never have to change the input on my TV?
Video Chat Support? Yes! This would be cool, My family has already started using Skype on their XBOX Ones, imagine doing it through the Hopper... For that matter make low cost IP Phone support available to those who have their Hoppers plugged into broadband. A lot of people would be able to eliminate their land line phone service with this!
But a lot of what I said above is all software releated... how can they make the hardware better? As I said before what they got there now is going to be hard to improve on... in fact the only thing I can think of that I would like to see is USB 3.0 support to speed up EHD transfers and have the wired Ethernet ports Gigabit instead of 10/100 this would help many of us in streaming movies from our DLNA servers.
