Momentary audio/video anomaly

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Has anyone else experienced this?
Today on Fox News (Ch 205) the audio and video froze for about a second, then the picture jumped from 16:9 to 4:3 for about a second then both audio and video reset to normal. The picture often goes to black for a second after freezing.
Picture of video anomaly below.
At 11:04 am CDT it just happened again and both instances are on the buffer and can and have been replayed.
I believe I have seen it on other channels.

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I haven't seen the aspect ratio randomly change on its own. However, relatively recently I've seen very brief video glitches that result in audio dropouts, which can take up to 15 seconds to recover. Seems to consistently happen only on certain channels, which suggests it's not the hard drive that's failing. I take it you've toggled the AC cord without success?
 
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Has anyone else experienced this?
Today on Fox News (Ch 205) the audio and video froze for about a second, then the picture jumped from 16:9 to 4:3 for about a second then both audio and video reset to normal. The picture often goes to black for a second after freezing.
Picture of video anomaly below.
At 11:04 am CDT it just happened again and both instances are on the buffer and can and have been replayed.
I believe I have seen it on other channels.

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Yes I saw this a few times yesterday.
 
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We've been having that issue for weeks. It happens up to 15 times and hour. Dish tried three fixes remotely that did not fix the problem. Tech coming tomorrow, meantime all recordings off to the HDD just in case!

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I've noticed a few freeze frames on Dish lately. As I have 100/100 FiOS FTTH and other WiFi items have shown no problems, I must assume the Dish feed, or the feed TO Dish, has some "concerns."
 
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Replaced it with a NEW one (thought that had ceased!)

Newly refurbished, I presume. I don't think Echostar / Dish have manufactured ANY STBs for many years now. I suspect they even have a long supply of Wallys.

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Sorry if this sounds like im begging but

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