Recent content by Massmur

I am having about 0.1 second sound dropouts randomly on my 722 with this software lately on most program material. I gather from this thread there's nothing wrong with my receiver. Same old two steps forward and one back ( or vice-verse ) with the software.

An OTA signal that is dropping in and out presents challenges to the decoding. It is this that is crashing the operating system and causing the lockups. It's the software.

Several years ago when viewing OTA with a 722, when signals got weak and intermittently dropped out, the software would crash as described here. The unit would usually automatically re-boot within a few minutes. It went away after a while probably with new software. You all should complain to...

The video and audio do not get out of sync with long HDMI cable runs. If the picture looks alright, it is alright and there are no subtle degradations. There are only two applications where the cable is important: in old NTSC composite video where low bandwidth can degrade resolution and in long...

Digital signals either work properly or don't work at all. OTA signals illustrate this when signals get weak, pixel-ate and drop out. You do not see visual degradation like with analog video or a weak, snowy RF analog signal. Cheaper is better.

A dish second level tech service person mentioned 1st quarter 2012 repair. They gave me 3 PPV coupons. My 722 is actually acting better now. It is not erasing rentals overnight like it was doing.

Dish says they hope to get it fixed in the first quarter of 2012.

RG 59 in-house would carry ATSC signals on VHF-UHF channels fine.

I think the visible video ringing is not due to RF impedance mismatch as the splitters and combiners are not that bad. I think it's in the RF modulation circuits of the 722.

No HD locals in SW Florida yet on 129. All 129 transponders on.

It sounds like this station is playing catchup. In the first year or so of OTA ATSC, a lot of stations had data stream troubles that they weren't away of since there weren't many OTA customers. I had a lot of e-mail and phone correspondence with a couple of them. All were resolved by changes at...

Spot transponder 15 on 61.5 has been weak for months in S.W. Florida, averaging 27. It had been 9 to 15 until there were many complaints. This is the HD local transponder. Other transponders on 61.5 are in the 40's and 50's. We are on the edge of the spot beam. I wonder if this satellite is...

Which (9) new HD channels am I not getting?

My reading of e-12 has been around a long time. My 722 was just replaced Fri. and the reading remains stable even after a lot of hard resets with old and new receivers. This is on a single LNB dish aimed at 61.5. We have had a low SS reading in my town in SW FL on our HD local spot beam 9 ...

My System Info One screen box a says: "Check Details for LNB!" . Details says: "LNB Drift Detected 0x0, 0xa1, 61.5 (e-13)." What is the significance of this?