I'm glad I found this forum!
I had Dish installed yesterday, and when the install guy completed everything, I asked him why I was getting faint vertical (and sometimes slight diagnal) lines over solid colors and patterns on screen. It's especially visible in that 1 second pause where you see a black screen while switching channels. However, you also see the faint pattern quite visibly when watching shows with a lot of solid colored backgrounds. The install guy claimed he had no idea what to do and I should call the Dish people up. This problem is only happening on the tv with the 522 receiver attached, btw.
I waited a few hours and it stayed the same, no improvement (desperation and hope!), so I called Dish up. They weren't able to fix anything over the phone, so I made a tech appt for next Saturday.
In the meantime, I played around with a few things this morning just to make sure it wasn't my electronics setup that creates the problem. I have an international (multisystem) tv, and my vcrs/dvd player are all multisystems as well. They are all built for use in the United States, so they are "standard" machines. The only weird part of the setup is that the tv works off of channel 1 and not channel 3 or 4 (it's impossible to change this option). But it works the same as any other tv despite this.
To be sure it wasn't the tv, I brought in a smaller, regular old US tv and hooked it up to the receiver. The lines were still there. The only difference is that because the tv was smaller, sometimes the lines were more "hidden" than they are on my regular larger tv. But when there was a really solid background on screen, the line pattern popped out again. And it was always visible in between channels while surfing.
I also tried taping things on both my receiver-attached tv and the secondary tv (in the living room) to see how tapes play on various machines. I used a non-hooked up to anything tv for the viewing of the tapes. The tapes recorded off of the receiver connected tv have the lines on them. But oddly enough, the tapes taped off of the living room tv have horizontal lines during the time you have the black channel changing screen (that doesn't show up on the tv I taped it on). Also, the video quality was terrible. The vcr in that room is not broken and is in good shape, so I was shocked at the picture quality. I checked all connections, and nothing is wrong.
Dish is really my last hope. I left DirecTV after many years due to their not honoring a service contract I was paying them for after power surges destroyed equipment. Then I tried digital cable, and while the quality wasn't bad at all for most channels, it was so horrible on some channels (and the customer service sooooo horrible), that I decided to just get Dish. I've spent the last 2 months dealing with cable/satellite issues and feel like I'm stuck on some horrible merry go round!
Does anyone know anything about these vertical lines? Any suggestions/help/experiences?
Jennifer
I had Dish installed yesterday, and when the install guy completed everything, I asked him why I was getting faint vertical (and sometimes slight diagnal) lines over solid colors and patterns on screen. It's especially visible in that 1 second pause where you see a black screen while switching channels. However, you also see the faint pattern quite visibly when watching shows with a lot of solid colored backgrounds. The install guy claimed he had no idea what to do and I should call the Dish people up. This problem is only happening on the tv with the 522 receiver attached, btw.
I waited a few hours and it stayed the same, no improvement (desperation and hope!), so I called Dish up. They weren't able to fix anything over the phone, so I made a tech appt for next Saturday.
In the meantime, I played around with a few things this morning just to make sure it wasn't my electronics setup that creates the problem. I have an international (multisystem) tv, and my vcrs/dvd player are all multisystems as well. They are all built for use in the United States, so they are "standard" machines. The only weird part of the setup is that the tv works off of channel 1 and not channel 3 or 4 (it's impossible to change this option). But it works the same as any other tv despite this.
To be sure it wasn't the tv, I brought in a smaller, regular old US tv and hooked it up to the receiver. The lines were still there. The only difference is that because the tv was smaller, sometimes the lines were more "hidden" than they are on my regular larger tv. But when there was a really solid background on screen, the line pattern popped out again. And it was always visible in between channels while surfing.
I also tried taping things on both my receiver-attached tv and the secondary tv (in the living room) to see how tapes play on various machines. I used a non-hooked up to anything tv for the viewing of the tapes. The tapes recorded off of the receiver connected tv have the lines on them. But oddly enough, the tapes taped off of the living room tv have horizontal lines during the time you have the black channel changing screen (that doesn't show up on the tv I taped it on). Also, the video quality was terrible. The vcr in that room is not broken and is in good shape, so I was shocked at the picture quality. I checked all connections, and nothing is wrong.
Dish is really my last hope. I left DirecTV after many years due to their not honoring a service contract I was paying them for after power surges destroyed equipment. Then I tried digital cable, and while the quality wasn't bad at all for most channels, it was so horrible on some channels (and the customer service sooooo horrible), that I decided to just get Dish. I've spent the last 2 months dealing with cable/satellite issues and feel like I'm stuck on some horrible merry go round!
Does anyone know anything about these vertical lines? Any suggestions/help/experiences?
Jennifer
