Dish 500 with DVR625?? Can that Cause PQ Problems??

[RocketFoot]

Ever since I upgraded from 2-301's to a 625, my locals PQ has been poor. I have been thinking that maybe some of has to do with the fact that the installer upgraded my older Dish 500 antenna and never installed a new on. Do you tink this is an issue and/or what is available to replace the 500 Antenna?

The poor PQ seems to be digital compression problems...pixelation and poor transitions on dark back grounds. It is driving me nuts!

 

[Jim5506]

The Dish 500 should work fine with the 625.

Are you getting a good strong signal? If not it may be an aiming issue. Have the installer re-peak the signal.

Another possibility is a flakey 625 or a 625 in need or rebooting. With all Dish DVRs you are not actually watching the stream as it comes from the satellite, but you are watching a replay of it as it is recorded on the hard drive. If the DVR is not recording properly or playing back properly you loose detail. Have you done a hard reboot - unplug for several minutes and restart?

Either cause could exibit these symptoms. It is akin to recording at low bitrate on a TiVo (blacks flatten out blockiness and pixelation with motion of the entire screen.