ON Home From time to time (maybe once an hour) I'll be watching something and then a portion of the screen gets pixelated. For example, someone can be standing there and then as they start to speak, his entire face will turn into large blocks and then it will clear up. It's not normal artifacting and it never happens on my 4000 that I've had for almost 3 years and it just started on the DISHPLAYER immediately following the PTV upgrade. If I "rewind" and view it again, the blocking doesn't appear again. It's kind of annoying. My wife (who is far from a videophile) has even noticed it.
This issue has remained unresolved since it was first reported. The best analysis that anyone's been able to come up with is that sometimes the Dishplayer doesn't have enough video buffered to supply an unbroken video stream while the hard drive read head has to span several tracks. Frequent 2 second or less blackouts also seem to be related to this phenomenon. If you find this particulrly annoying, you might want to try adding a second or two of pause to the program you're watching. For many folks it seems to help.
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