High Jeff. Thanks so much for all the time and effort you put into this reply. To answer a few of your questions:
What I still do not understand is why this (pixeling or total loss of picture and then "reaquiring satellites") would happen on just the one t.v. We started running the two t.v.'s at once on the same exact channels for diagnostic purposes and on occasion just the one t.v. would cut out. (We can easily see the other t.v. in an adjacent room).
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I have 2 separate VIP612 receivers. I wanted to have the ability to run HD on both t.v.'s at the same time if I wanted to. So, there is a separate receiver for each t.v.
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{The older SD receivers could only output one type of material that was scaled for one type of TV. If you were to change your settings to 480 and connect with RCA cables, you might find the same situation, but you'd lose the good stuff. The newer HD equipment now takes into account that there are several formats that are being broadcast. To be able to view them accurately often requires a format change.}
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This is what I was wondering - I figured the old receivers were designed for only one type of format (SD). But what "they" don't tell you is that the newer generation receivers do a crappy job of displaying SD. The old ones did quite a good job; in fact my former SD picture on my HD capable t.v. looked much better than my brother's supposed HD broadcast with cox.net. He does not have the "discerning eye" you talk about.
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{The older SD receivers could only output one type of material that was scaled for one type of TV. If you were to change your settings to 480 and connect with RCA cables, you might find the same situation, but you'd lose the good stuff. The newer HD equipment now takes into account that there are several formats that are being broadcast. To be able to view them accurately often requires a format change.}
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My 2007 Panasonic is a 780p I believe. It ran off of the Dish Network (3 year old) SD receiver. It had a great picture! So, now if I want to be totally anal about this, if I want to I can also hook up RCA cables and whenever I want to view SD I can view it by choosing the RCA hook-up but then I must change my settings each time back to 780p? Whew!!!!!!!!!
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Do you have an OTA antenna hooked up?
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Yes, we have the antenna and the wiring; it just has not been hooked up for a few years. We live in a quite rural area and it is over 40 miles from where my locals are broadcast from - thru mountains, etc. So, we never had a very good OTA signal, esp. with windy or snowy conditions. I have this bizarre TERK, rabbit ear, indoor antenna thing that I run another old t.v. off. It has to be "zoned in" for each particular local and really does not do a great job. I am thinking of going back to national feeds for the major networks, and then I can use this TERK or our rooftop antenna for our local news reports.
We had to cancel the DISH installation correction yet again. We live in the NE, their is still snow on our roof, and the next few days they are predicting temps. in the single digits and less! Can't expect the DISH person to kill him/herself!
Thank you again.
Bonnie