From reading your other thread your signals are fine. You will waste alot of time to either make your signal worse or maybe get an additional point or two. 75 on the modified meter is a good signal.
From reading your other thread your signals are fine. You will waste alot of time to either make your signal worse or maybe get an additional point or two. 75 on the modified meter is a good signal.
ok guys...I think I might have pinpointed what the problem is with my system. let me know your toughts.
here is the thing. I know that most of you say that signal strength does not affect picture quality at all. So, I just went and checked something.
I went to point dish screen on my receiver and checked the signal strength on all transponders for 119 and then 110 satellites (have dish 500).
Here is what I have found (min and max signal strength levels on both birds out of 125 max level):
119 bird: 62 min/76 max
110 bird: 21 min/68 max
As you can see the signal strength of 110 bird is lower.
Now, out of curiousity I went on dish network website and found out which satellite my "problem" channels are coming from. Surprisingly or not I found out that channels like Tennis Channel, Fox Soccer channel and other that are included in Top 250 package are broadcast from 110 bird with lower signal strength then 119.
Yes, I know that you are saying signal strenght does not matter for picture quality. However, nevertheless I wonder why 110 channels on my system have lower pq when they have lower signal strength????
One thing I found out that is not proving what I have found of course is that RDS FSN ohio where I watch hockey is coming from 119 bird (and I still have problems with that channel). However, FSN ohio on 119 is far much better pq then tennis channel or fox soccer channel on 110.
I am confused now..!
Forget checking ALL transponders when aligning your Dish!!!
It's superflous, useless, a waste of time.
Check on 119 tr 11, get dish aligned.
If 110 tr 11 is within 15 points of 119 tr 11, lock it down.
As noted 110 is a bit weaker than 119.
I lock mine down after I meter at the dish, before I even look at the receiver meter on the tv. I rarely have to re-align.
fred
I gave you advice about this in another thread. You need to have someone check your bit:error ratios. If they are good, then either the receiver is bad or the provided signal is over-compressed.
What you can do in the meantime is go to the particular channels you have trouble on and while watching those channels, go to menu>6,1,1 and see what satellite/transponder is coming up. That should be the transponder for that channel and you can see if the signal level is low.
A better quality TV may provide a better image. In order to provide a better rendition of those channels, DISH would have to up the bitrate on them and that's probably not going to happen (well, maybe when they transition SD channels to MPEG4).if the issue is just over compression, then what would be the solution?
A better quality TV may provide a better image. In order to provide a better rendition of those channels, DISH would have to up the bitrate on them and that's probably not going to happen (well, maybe when they transition SD channels to MPEG4).
As was pointed out earlier, no amount of dish peaking is going to change the PQ of a channel that you're able to receive unless you're experiencing obvious loss of signal.
A better quality TV may provide a better image. In order to provide a better rendition of those channels, DISH would have to up the bitrate on them and that's probably not going to happen (well, maybe when they transition SD channels to MPEG4).
As was pointed out earlier, no amount of dish peaking is going to change the PQ of a channel that you're able to receive unless you're experiencing obvious loss of signal.
An installed base of millions of MPEG2-only receivers.Do you know what is holding up the transition from SD channels to MPEG4?
Probably not for a couple of years; at least until every subscriber has at least one MPEG4 capable box.Any guess when it will be completely done?
It is a balancing act.I see....hmmm don;t you think this is ridiculous that dish network even allows the compression to affect quality that bad as to make it almost impossible to watch some channels?
It is a balancing act.
Did the Tennis and soccer channels look better on cable or did you have to go to DISH to get them? The soccer channels in particular often suffer from the programming originating in some other TV format which doesn't help.
I've found that better televisions produce an acceptable picture. Certainly nowhere near as clean as on an SDTV, but even the OTA SD channel (analog or digital) PQ is diminished when displayed on an HDTV. If you were sucked into the idea that "Digital = highest quality", then God bless you.