Last night for the first time, I was able to watch a whole movie on the Movie Channel (TMC) without one or more of the following happening:
1. Box locks up. Only fix is unplug power to restart.
2. tear drop artifacts and single line artifacts.
3. popping sound.
4. Picture flickers out.
5. Larger areas of artifacts (blotches of artifacts 5-10" in size) every few minutes.
After the movie finished, I turned to a Cinema10 channel and problems 2-5 were present immediately. I left the tuner on over night and this morning the box had crashed. (I had sound but no picture on any channel SAT/Local, message would say no signal from SAT or no signal from local channel)
All channels currently appear to have a problem with a brief pause/stutter every 30-90 seconds. I see this on most if not all channels. It is very easy to see on worldsport since the camera pans a lot on that channel.
I am having all these problems currently and my box was installed 5 days ago. My signal strength is at 65+ and quality is at 60+.