I looked at my recording of "The Sopranos" from the other night I had made on my ViP622 and I saw something rather disturbing: Pressing "||" and single frame stepping through the video showed a pattern of 2-2-2-4, where I'd see the picture change, a duplicate frame, a frame change, dup, change, dup, then change, dup, dup, dup. This pattern repeated for the time that I had recorded. It's no wonder my brain is complainging about stuttering video: This is a far cry from a 2:3 dropdown. The question now is whether this is A&E HD's fault or Echostar's?
Can someone else verify that this is happening? Oh, and I get my 9419 from 61.5?W, in case that makes a difference.