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    How painful is it really when connecting a new TV to the COAXof DISH receivers?

    If I understand other threads about receivers more modern than my 508, the only way you can get an undistorted AND COMPLETE 16:9 signal (ie with no loss of image top and bottom) displayed to TV2 is if you set the receiver to "single mode". The discussions about capabilities of the newer...
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    Picture squished on SD output (TV2) on VIP722

    Its been a while since this thread has been active. I'll see if I can spark responses from here, since all of the above is relavant to my situation. My understanding of anamorphic widescrneen is that the SD broadcast needs to be algorithmically compressed from the original 16:9 format down to...
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    How painful is it really when connecting a new TV to the COAXof DISH receivers?

    My question may have a broader one beneath it, but I'll start simply. I considered buying a replacement tv for a less critical viewing station. These days, one can only get an "HDTV" with 16:9 aspect ratio - I settled for an inexpensive LCD, knowing that I intended to connect it to the coax...
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    Intermittent problem resetting a recording-related field when recording on the 508 receiver

    Thank you for the replies. Just to be careful, the correct name for the field on my record congifuration display is called "stop late" field. Oddly, as Mark states, its value changes for different types of programming events. I dont think it is strictly sports, but for certain types of...
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    Intermittent problem resetting a recording-related field when recording on the 508 receiver

    I am still using the 508 receiver, despite the pain that it causes me when I record certain events. The problem seemed to appear sometime after Dish upgraded things to simplify recording of multiple occurrances of an event (so, for example, a single event timer could record all the broadcasts...