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I'm having a problem with DirecTV HD reception, which I think relates to their consistently scummy way of doing business.I have a triple LNB dish with 2 HD receivers - a Samsung which is about 3 years old in my main rig, and a newer DirecTV labeled unit with TiVo in the bedroom. The latter gets every station just fine, but the Samsung (which until recently functioned flawlessly) now has severe problems with certain of the HD stations - 70 (HBO), 71 (SHO), etc. - the picture is severely pixielated with dropouts and will "freeze" the receiver. This really pisses me off, since the Samsung has a much better user interface, switches channels more rapidly and has a LCD display of the tuned station - unlike the DirecTV receiver, which is an utter ergonomic disaster. And the Samsung still works fine on SD channels.
Has anyone else experienced this? Are they deliberately scrambling the signal so that we have to buy their HD receivers? Any other HD receivers WITH CHANNEL DISPLAY you can recommend?
I would ditch DirecTV if it weren't for NFL Sunday Ticket.
Follow Ups:
Check your cables. I started having problems a year or two ago similar to yours. Certain channels would lose the signal, but others were OK. I discovered the installers (who otherwise did a fine job relocating my dish) had spliced the cables and buried the splices wrapped only in cloth tape. Of course, the moisture eventually seeped in. When I replaced the cables, the problems disappeared.Good luck,
Doug
I've had a similar problem with losing my HD local channels. On one occasion, I rebooted the DirecTV box and this solved it. Just last night, it didn't.
Mine has a very long cable run, and a check for splices revealed none.
Calls to DirecTV help in the past have been annoyingly time consuming to get to the higher level techs who seem to have some idea of what may be going on, so I'd certainly appreciate any suggestions to the original post so that I don't have to go through that process again. Dish Network help, btw, is even worse on help.
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