I have decided today that I will send my 811 back into Dish Depot for a full refund minus the restocking fee. This unit has some really bad pq problems.
1. Sd channels from the satellite look fuzzy and out of focus compared to a 721 hooked up to the same tv.
2. Dark dvi with blacks dropping out of the picture making it look like x-rays in some scenes. Try watching The Others form Tnt in hd, it is god awful.
2. Dark Component as well. Less problems than the dvi but now noticing the same problems with blacks in the picture showing the same tendecies. Glowing x-ray quality on dark scenes.
3. The sd ouputs through s-video or rca composite also demonstrate the same thing with a stand alone tivo. Recorded a show in hd on the tivo and it had the same problem with blacks dropping out in the scenes .
This is to much money to pay to be able to watch just my ota channels , since the hd channels from Dish have pq problems that make watching the show distracting. The whole idea about hd is to receive the best picture quality available. My 721 hooked through my dvd recorder through component looks wonderful and shows none of these problems on the same tv.
Dish won't replace the unit and is telling me that ,first the dark ouput problem has been fixed. When I told her that there were like 8 pages and growing on the web boards about these problems she then said that the next software update at 268 would fix this "unknown" problem. How can you have a update for a problem that you don' t admit that exists?
I will do with out hd for a few more months till they can come up with a hd receiver that has dvr and works properly. I can still watch my ota channels through my tv itself since it has a hd tuner built in.
This receiver has been a big disappointment.
