I have never seen a native pass through on any of the Dish receivers and I like it that way.
That's nice...for
you...some (many of us, I actually suspect) WOULD like this option...just like pretty much EVERY other modern HD set top offers the end-user. It's a thing called
C-H-O-I-C-E, which (supposedly) the Ho is supposed to be about...there IS actually a valid reason why all the others offer the option; think about it.
If you want to be saddled with the (abet, small) picture degradation of up/down conversion, then that's great...but when all it takes is a simple, option setting for others, I just don't see why E* continues to be so backwards in their thinking on this...& frankly, E* could use any (even small) extra picture quality enhancement it could squeeze out of it's service.
Hopper 2 didn't and i have not seen it H3. If it did when would you use it?
Um, 24/7...
Yea guys, I'm all TOO well aware E* has NEVER offered this on ANY HD receiver...but I mean christ, even Comcast's old, clunky, I-guide Moto HD boxes have offered a pass-thru
option for years now...this is NOT exactly an epiphany of thought. And YES, I'm very much aware of the time-lag/flicker problem when changing channels,etc...when you have a DVR & you're NOT actually channel-surfing, it not a big-deal at all.
AGAIN, that's why you make it an
OPTION in setup...NOT a requirement! D* has had thing very thing on ALL of their HD boxes as far back as I can remember; I know they had them on the D* HD-Tivo units, since I had one & always used it in native.