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I recently made the jump from Comcast to DishNetwork' TurboHD. My reasoning was that I pretty much only watch HD, so why pay for all the other channels that comcast makes me pay for.

Based on the picture quality, I am REALLY regretting my decision. I hope that it is a fixable situation... I can't imagine anyone thinking that what I am experiencing is HD.

I have 3 main gripes:

1) all pictures seem soft, lacking crisp detail

2) intermittently, I will lose sound for around a second.

3) very often, I will see "blocky" artifacts in dark solid backgrounds or extremely grainy detail. See these examples from the Presidential Debate.

I find this to be unacceptable and really hope that there is just something wrong that is very correctable. I find the picture quality overall to be slightly less than my upscaling dvd player (!).

I have my 722 connected to my 1080P tv via both composite and HDMI - both have similar problems.

The signal strength on one of the transponders IS low (less than 30) and dish is coming out this weekend to investigate. However, as I understand it, a digital signal you either get or you don't - there are no variations in strength.

What can I do to make the quality better? Is everyone simply living with this level of quality? Can I epect a stronger signal to remedy any of this?

Thanks so much everyone!!!
Luke
(Bay Area)