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There have been a fair number of complaints about PQ on Fox on the tech portal lately. As for the rest of your post, you definitely have me/us doing a lot of head scratching
I agree. The other night my PTAT Fox was very grainy. It looked worse than SD. The other PTAT networks looked fine.
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So here's what I did. Before I completely gave up, I decided to note all of my existing settings down. I defaulted the TV input (not the entire TV) and reconfigured using the exact same settings. BAM... dramatically improved! I have absolutely no explanation for why this worked, or what this actually did. I had already changed inputs which had different settings, but saw similar results. The change was immediate and astonishing. Of course this is technology, and even the HAL 9000 series had a perfect operational record, right?
It's not streaming or media server quality, nor would I expect it to be. It is quite good in comparison to what I have been seeing though, and probably better then the 722 was. I have reviewed the settings over and over again, and they are exactly the same. I have never entered the service menu, or made any strange modifications. It's like something got "stuck" or was just processing wrong. I was so happy to get this going... just in time to lose HBO and Cinemax (literally an hour later)!
The difference in OTA vs local Dish is still huge, but that was also true of my 722. BTW - Fox still looks like crap no matter what.
It's not streaming or media server quality, nor would I expect it to be. It is quite good in comparison to what I have been seeing though, and probably better then the 722 was. I have reviewed the settings over and over again, and they are exactly the same. I have never entered the service menu, or made any strange modifications. It's like something got "stuck" or was just processing wrong. I was so happy to get this going... just in time to lose HBO and Cinemax (literally an hour later)!
The difference in OTA vs local Dish is still huge, but that was also true of my 722. BTW - Fox still looks like crap no matter what.
So here's what I did. Before I completely gave up, I decided to note all of my existing settings down. I defaulted the TV input (not the entire TV) and reconfigured using the exact same settings. BAM... dramatically improved! I have absolutely no explanation for why this worked, or what this actually did. I had already changed inputs which had different settings, but saw similar results. The change was immediate and astonishing. Of course this is technology, and even the HAL 9000 series had a perfect operational record, right?
It's not streaming or media server quality, nor would I expect it to be. It is quite good in comparison to what I have been seeing though, and probably better then the 722 was. I have reviewed the settings over and over again, and they are exactly the same. I have never entered the service menu, or made any strange modifications. It's like something got "stuck" or was just processing wrong. I was so happy to get this going... just in time to lose HBO and Cinemax (literally an hour later)!
The difference in OTA vs local Dish is still huge, but that was also true of my 722. BTW - Fox still looks like crap no matter what.
Glad you stuck with it until it worked.
That was going to be my next radical suggestion. Reset the TV and recalibrate the settings. Glad that you solved this riddle. I can't help with your locals. I am on the EA and my locals are almost as good as OTA. Actually, some are better due to OTA splitting their bandwidth with subchannels.So here's what I did. Before I completely gave up, I decided to note all of my existing settings down. I defaulted the TV input (not the entire TV) and reconfigured using the exact same settings. BAM... dramatically improved! I have absolutely no explanation for why this worked, or what this actually did. I had already changed inputs which had different settings, but saw similar results. The change was immediate and astonishing. Of course this is technology, and even the HAL 9000 series had a perfect operational record, right?
It's not streaming or media server quality, nor would I expect it to be. It is quite good in comparison to what I have been seeing though, and probably better then the 722 was. I have reviewed the settings over and over again, and they are exactly the same. I have never entered the service menu, or made any strange modifications. It's like something got "stuck" or was just processing wrong. I was so happy to get this going... just in time to lose HBO and Cinemax (literally an hour later)!
The difference in OTA vs local Dish is still huge, but that was also true of my 722. BTW - Fox still looks like crap no matter what.
Dish may be getting your OTAs delivered over fiber. I think here in Denver they use an antenna and rebroadcast, which would make sense as they have a huge presence here. I see compression on some of my OTAs too, due to sub-channels being stacked up on the transmitter.
Mine are too. I can't see a difference, no matter how hard I try.
I finally got everything dialed in last night. It's the first time in two weeks that I actually enjoyed watching TV! Thanks to everyone here who offered advice. This group is the best!
The product that spun off "The Wall" is a modular system that you can connect the video blocks like Legos and they automatically adapt to the shape and off you go . . .
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I tried watching last week's Nature on PBS, and it was almost impossible to watch as there was a lot of fast motion. The streaming picture on their app is SOOOO much better. Having had OTA before, I know this is not Dish's fault, but rather the multiple sub channels PBS is broadcasting.
I had not noticed this issue until after I read this. Now I am seeing the up and down jitter during the West Virginia vs. Texas college football game on Fox. I agree, it is very annoying.
