My Dish VIP 612 works fine on live TV but breaks up, freezes, pixilates when playing back recorded shows especially longer shows like basketball games, football games, etc. Dish has sent me three different DVRs but I still have the problem.
Any suggestions?
edy
Edy, I am not going to say that this is the definite issue but Dish only has receivers that are 1080i compatible at the time which will give you some blurring and possible pixellating. 1080p will resolve these issues in the future. Therefore if you still need help let me know.
Edy, the introduction of 1080p receivers in the future should resolve the blurring and possible pixellating issues that are seen during fast action sequences such as a basketball player running up court. This is due to the way a 1080p fill in the TV screen as opposed to the 1080i. Progessives fill the screen line by line creating less loss of information in fast moving scenes whereas interlaced fills the screen every other line and then restarts at the top filling those that were not filled in previously hence the lag time in imaging being displayed as if in real time. When the receivers that are 1080p are introduced I expect, but can not guarantee, that Dish will offer them as an upgrade offer to existing customers. This is due to Dish not having the ability to know what resolution your set is nor when it was purchased. Currently as of the writing of this post there are no 1080p receivers available through our competition either. Dish does offer 1080p Video on Demand services through it VIP line of receivers.
As for Toomanyknicks, if they told you this is a known receiver issue it is news to me as it is not listed on any information available to the field performing the installations. We however do not have the resources available to us that the customer service people do on their end so I apologize for my ignorance of this fact and for your ongoing issues.
Dish will soon be introducing a new receiver called the 922 Vip model that may interest you gentleman. Another solution although I hate to suggest it would be to use the expansion port on a non DVR receiver such as a 222 to record your shows. This would require the use of your own hard drive but would eleiminate any concerns you might have with the internal device.
I am sorry I could not be of more help. Thanks for using Fix Ya.
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Mine does the same thing. If I skip back, the audio comes in three
seconds after the video playback begins. There is random freezing or
macroblocking of the recorded image, and an occasional flash. I just
got off the phone (again) with Dish and the guy finally admitted this
was a known issue with all their HD receivers. Needless to say I am
furious they have wasted so much of my time, swapping recievers and
having the guy come out to swap all the outside stuff. After many years
I may be ready to tell Dish to pound sand.
In response to your questions, I am on my third DVR from
Dish and I am having fewer problems than on the previous two. Most
shows do not break up on replay, but I seem to have the most problems on shows
that are more than one hour long and are being watched while still being
recording. The problem does occur more in HD than SD.
In your email from you say:
Edy, I am not going to say that this is the definite issue but Dish only has
receivers that are 1080i compatible at the time which will give you some
blurring and possible pixellating. 1080p will resolve these issues in the
future. Therefore if you still need help let me know.
My TV is 1080p. How will these issues be resolved in the future?
Will Dish be providing new DVRs or will they be able to resolve the problem
during transmission? Thanks for your help.
Edy
edy,
I am curious if this only occurs on HD channels or if it occurs on both the SD and HD channels.It may also be a cable issue or seperator that is bad. Try recording a show while watching it also to see if it occurs then also and let me know the results so we can eliminate some issues and find the root ccause of your issue.
does vip 612 use a smartcard
I want to know if I can get my recorded programs from my old VIP 612 transferred to my new one when it gets here.
It keeps freezing up so they are sending me a new one. Can I recover my recordings from the other dvr?
It keeps freezing up so they are sending me a new one. Can I recover my recordings from the old dvr?
is vip 612 can work without smart card ?
can vip 612 work without smat card ?
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