Don't be fooled into thinking that Hopper OTA support is necessarily due "soon". If you need OTA recording, don't get a Hopper until such time as it is a working feature.
DIRECTV's HR20 shipped with OTA tuners but the feature wasn't turned on for nearly four months. The Hopper doesn't even come with an OTA tuner.
DIRECTV's USB connected OTA tuner module didn't arrive until ten months after the introduction of the first receivers that might need it.
Such is not so say that DISH isn't closer to delivering the OTA experience, but it surely isn't wise to blindly assume it so.