Picture will freeze & skip

[SFC Donn]

picture does a freeze and jump for serveral seconds. I have had this problem for 5 months. Have talked with dish tech 6 times. they have sent out a new receiver, adj dish alignment, regounded the system outside, rechecked signal strength & replaced LNBs. It happens on both receivers (1) 625 & (1) 622. It happens on all channels so it must be somewhere in the common hardware. The only parts they have not changed were the cables & the DPP44. Any ideas what the problem is?

 

[Rey]

if you mean that when you change channels the picture freezes for about 2 sec then skips to position than yes i've had the same problem since l449 on my vip622. really hasn't bothered me much.

 

[Ilya]

picture does a freeze and jump for serveral seconds.

I've seen this happen to me several times, but not too often. Usually in bad weather, before rain or thunder. Are you sure you don't have any trees in your line of sight?

 

[SFC Donn]

The freeze happens not just after changing channels. it also happens while viewing a channel . the number of times and duration will vary. About trees being in the way. I do not believe this is the problem. The problem happens on local channels as well and that dish is in a different location on the house.

 

[kvnfl]

It happens on my 722 every now and then when watching recorded SD events. It is an SD only occurance. It never happens to HD programming. You are not alone. It is a bug that affects many users and much has been written about it on different forums.

Skip back or forward or rewind or fast forward until it goes away. In worst case, go to "Live TV," hit the DVR button twice, select the recording and "Resume." It is sort of like re-synching vocal on TiVo.

 

[SFC Donn]

It happens while watching live and on all channels including HD & Locals. sometimes doing a skip back will help & sometimes it does not.

 

[iKramerica]

this happens on the 622, 522, 722, etc. On my current 622, it happens once in a while live, more often on a recorded show. It happens far more often when the disk is recording something else at the time (or stopping a recording, or starting one) It's a minor issue to me. If I truly missed something, I hit the back button and it will play the part that it skipped.

Worse things in life could plague me.

 

[dreddick]

It happens while watching live and on all channels including HD & Locals. sometimes doing a skip back will help & sometimes it does not.

My 625 started doing this a few months ago - about the time the new software installed. There must have been a problem with that release as they rolled it back to the previous version again but it didn't fix the problem for me. Support wanted to replace the 625 but I have a feeling that wouldn't accomplish anything from other threads I have read here.

David

 

[mark40511]

I've had everything checked and have been noticing this too since we upgraded to the new dvr hd receivers back in jan. It can be sunny, no wind, and suddenly a drop out on an sd channel and or hd channel. I've seen it on both. No clue what this is.

 

[penn]

I recently had the same problem with freezing and skipping forward on my 625 like it was a signal problem. I ran a check switch test and all is good.

 

[mark40511]

Yeah. I called in a service call, after rebooting and check switch testing good, checked cables. It does it with both dvr/hd recievers I have but it doesn't happen often. They tech came out, changed lnb and it still does it! I dunno

 

[gutter]

Is it on all channels or channels just on Sat 129.? See the thread on 129. It could be where you live and spring white out loss of signal. I had the same for 3 or 4 days but seems to have corrected itself. I am in PA and that is on the outer fringes of a the best footprint of 129.