Factory Remanufactured Dish Network Hopper Whole Home DVR System The Hopper and Joey system, replaces existing equipment. In other words, older receivers hooked up, will need to be de-activated before Joey and Hopper can be activated. Dish Network Hopper Receiver need a node to be connected to the dish With 3 tuners, you can watch or record up to 3 live HD programs at once- from any TV connected to your whole-home network. This 2 Terabyte HD DVR has 3 satellite tuners and provides full DVR functionality to the other TVs in your home through thin-client receivers called Joeys (sold seperately) giving you a Whole- Home DVR network. The Hopper also features a massive 2 Terabyte hard drive that gives you over 250 hours of HD DVR recording and hundreds of On Demand titles for instant viewing.