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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 -...

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

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...

How about improving the crappy, over-compressed picture quality??

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...

Thanks for all the replies!! The barrel connector is indoors, I agree - outdoors would just create another corrosion point.

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...

Thanks again Poke, it was your guy that escalated the matter to the correct people. JQ

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Do a search for my posts - username johnny q and you will get a good idea of my problems, its quite severe and a bit long winded, so thats why I wont re-post here. I emailed "CEO" and the same thing happens EACH time, someone (the same person) leaves me an answering machine message that they...

Thanks for the answers guys. I havent made the decision yet, but it really pains me that I am this close to cancelling service due to problems their techs cannot fix, when the Dish was first installed back in 2001, it was the greatest. Next Wed I have a tech visiting - last chance.:( JQ

If I decide to cancel Dish, aside from calling them and asking to discontinue service, do they come out and actually "de-install" the system, i.e tear down the dish, coax cabling etc, or do you just return the recievers and have to worry about the remaining hardware yourself??? JQ

Yeah - I just called Dish and they are aware of the problem. Said they are "working on it." While I was at it, I scheduled a tech to come in to once again address my severely degraded picture quality across both sats 110/119 - its(the quality) been going south for about a year, and now looks...

My local channel 5, 7 and others are all broken up, channel 2 seems to be fine. All other sat 119 channels come in fine. Anyone else having these problems??? Another nail in Dish's coffin as far as I am concerned........ JQ

It cant look worse than what my Dish Network PQ has degraded to. When I first had it installed in 2001, it was flawless, now it looks like a video phone. I can deal with a little blockiness, its the blurry washed out look and the halos around the images I cant deal with.

If your PQ is anything like mine, it fluctuates up and down like the stock market. I can watch my TV at noon time and marvel at how crystal clear the picture is, and turn it back on at primetime and its unwatchable - blurry, pixely, moving in almost slow-mo. Sometimes these conditions (the...

Does anyone see the same PQ issues that I currently see with Dish Network? Oftentimes the picture is blurry and out of focus, colors are washed out, at its absolute worst, it moves in almost slow-mo like a videophone vid, or RealVideo. I realize that compression and other factors affect a...

Can anyone directly compare the PQ to either Dish or Direct??? JQ

I am in New Milford. I read in the Bergen record that Fios should be in all of Bergen County by March 2007. Not happy with Cablevision?