I thought it was just me. But I have noticed a change on the "just HD" end since replacing my 8 year old DLP (a kin to your digital movie theatre projector) with an upper end 4k LCD and luckily I can get the DLP fixed. The PQ on a DISH HwS is all over the place over the past few weeks compared to any other HD, not even factoring 4k, source on the LCD, as is suggested to try. Although some of the DISH VOD is better than the regular programming, some of the regular channels are not good. So it is noticed on other gear than the H3. Will be getting that when it's a little more solid. Got the LCD in mid-December and I initially dialed it in to several channels that I watch all the time and have noticed that the picture has taken on the characteristics that the OP describes over the past month. I am seeing more washed out and color shift/flattening especially in "Caucasian" faces, "faces of color" look far better and darker backgrounds/scenes there is banding and blotching. This is not the first time that this subject has been brought up over the years. Every so often someone pipes up about this. I have had up graded cabling (2.0a/2.2) from leftover of a Fall install that I did in preparation for all things 4k. Have also noticed this on the newer, last Fall, 40" LCD in the kitchen. Whereas, with the DLP, since it made everything even the worst source look good, out of the box it was incredible and I only had to play with it for a couple of minutes and never had to touch it again. So any fluctuation would have been negligible to notice. I have a couple other DLP's in storage which are too big to use in this instance, thus the replacement, otherwise, I'd probably not even have noticed.
