Hi:
Basically I just want to watch the best quality dish SD locals on my HDTV.
This looks like just the right fourm to ask my question. I recently purchased an HD monitor mostly to watch dvds on and I am very happy with the quality. However, when I look at my SD dishnet programs they are really bad (Blocky and much worse than they appear on my old CRT even when allowing for the size increase). Obviously the problem seems to be rooted in the D/A - A/D deinterlacing/interpolating operations. I have only local channel package from dishnet and an old (10 year old) dishnet receiver with only composit and s-video out. I am wondering if I purchase a more recent dishnet receiver (such as 811, 411, 211, or 381) and use the digital outputs (HDMI or DVI-D) to connect to my HD monitor will I see better quality SD programs than the s-video method. I assume all the receives listed above including the 381 perform digital up conversion to the digital video outputs. Is this correct? What output formats are available? (can it do 720p and 1080i?). Next question I have is can I watch the HD local channels that dishnet carries on their system (ABC, CBS, NBC, etc) using one of these boxes and if so would I have to pay the monthly HD connectivity fee.
Is the upconversion performance in the 211/411/811 any better than the 381?
Thanks
RIch
Basically I just want to watch the best quality dish SD locals on my HDTV.
This looks like just the right fourm to ask my question. I recently purchased an HD monitor mostly to watch dvds on and I am very happy with the quality. However, when I look at my SD dishnet programs they are really bad (Blocky and much worse than they appear on my old CRT even when allowing for the size increase). Obviously the problem seems to be rooted in the D/A - A/D deinterlacing/interpolating operations. I have only local channel package from dishnet and an old (10 year old) dishnet receiver with only composit and s-video out. I am wondering if I purchase a more recent dishnet receiver (such as 811, 411, 211, or 381) and use the digital outputs (HDMI or DVI-D) to connect to my HD monitor will I see better quality SD programs than the s-video method. I assume all the receives listed above including the 381 perform digital up conversion to the digital video outputs. Is this correct? What output formats are available? (can it do 720p and 1080i?). Next question I have is can I watch the HD local channels that dishnet carries on their system (ABC, CBS, NBC, etc) using one of these boxes and if so would I have to pay the monthly HD connectivity fee.
Is the upconversion performance in the 211/411/811 any better than the 381?
Thanks
RIch