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    Picture Quality gone to crap!!!!

    Absolutely - I have been saying this for almost 2 years now. When I had my Dish installed in 2001, the PQ was awesome, near DVD quality. People used to comment on how great my PQ looked, now they ask me whats wrong with my TV!! The picture is blurry, washed out, halo's around the images -...
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    FiOS TV Available to 106 New Jersey Communities

    I just found out FIOS is available in Northern NJ where I live. Bye Bye Dish Network and your blocky, pixely washed out crap....I'm jumpin ship big time. JQ
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    Priorities for next E* enhancement

    Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say, some folks think Bose is a great stereo system for example.... Unfortunately, the Dish support folks took the same stance as you, and told me my problems must be related to my equipment and wasted almost a year arguing with me rather...
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    Priorities for next E* enhancement

    How about improving the crappy, over-compressed picture quality??
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    Why Do Trees Require 2 Dishes?

    A tech recently suggested this solution to me, I get flawless sat 110 signals, but due to some trees that grew a bit, my 119 signals are way low. He was going to leave one satelite on my chimney to continue receiving the great 110 signals, but install a 2nd Dish at a different location on my...
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    Barrel Connectors - will they cause a visible degradation in quality?

    Thanks for all the replies!! The barrel connector is indoors, I agree - outdoors would just create another corrosion point.
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    Barrel Connectors - will they cause a visible degradation in quality?

    I want to move one of my TV's to another part of the room and the existing coax will not reach, will extending the coax with a barrel connector cause any visible degradation to the PQ?? I called Dish and someone there told me that a barrel connector results in half a decibel loss, but they were...
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    Experience with dishquality and ceo email addresses

    Thanks again Poke, it was your guy that escalated the matter to the correct people. JQ
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    Experience with dishquality and ceo email addresses

    SD programs on SD TV. The degradation in PQ since 2001 is dramatic - same TV, system, etc. Short answer is "yes" I am having PQ issues, my old analog cable looked better than the blurry, washed out, slow mo I have now. So its not my eye objecting to the characteristics of digital picture or...
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    Experience with dishquality and ceo email addresses

    I agree 100% - in fact, as we speak a new tech is here now and he told me the same exact thing - total rubbish about the signal strengths vs PQ. This particlular tech(the guy on my roof now) is the top guy the local dept has to offer, all my complaining it took to get him out here. Finally...
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    Experience with dishquality and ceo email addresses

    Feast or famine it seems..... After weeks of sending hate mail to the CEO and Dishquality email addy's, and spending as much time leaving voice mails for someone from the "unresolved claims dept" who called ME inititially and subsequently never returned my calls, I have received direct phone...
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    Cancellation of service question

    Ok - now I am certain I am on a reality show called, "lets see how far we can push John Q Customer before he cancels service." After fighting my way through the inept CSR's, I convinced them that "100% pure digital picture" should not look like a blurry 5th gen VHS vid, I managed to get a...
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    Dish vs. contract tech

    I'm sure this all boils down to personal experience, a crap shoot really. But my personal experience has been that the actual "In House" techs have been in the very least more professional and punctual than the 3rd party subcontacted techs that came out. The last 3rd party techs that came here...
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    E* Customer Service Ratings Drop

    I had the same experience recently, its very frustrating when you pay a premium for a service and when tech support is needed, the person on the other end cant even articulate. With the experiences I have had recently, the news of Dish's ratings going down is no surprised and well deserved. JQ
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    Cancellation of service question

    Thanks Poke - I will give that a shot. The system was installed in 2001 and it looked awesome until about a year ago when the picture began to degrade to unacceptable levels. I dont have fancy equipment, a 34" Panasonic Tao SD, the TV was calibrated with the Avia disc and its connected via the...
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