Stuttering HD Channels??

[Poke]

I just noticed this today on some of the HD Channels like some of the Voom Channels and Discovery and FoodHD. What I mean by stuttering is that their is a slit hesitation on the screen kind of like a skipping. Anyone else noticed this? Hopefully in the near future Dish will do something about the 129 and move their HD to another bird.

 

[Poke]

It seems to have cleared up it might have been just something with those shows that were on at the time.

 

[Sammy033]

I just noticed this today on some of the HD Channels like some of the Voom Channels and Discovery and FoodHD. What I mean by stuttering is that their is a slit hesitation on the screen kind of like a skipping. Anyone else noticed this? Hopefully in the near future Dish will do something about the 129 and move their HD to another bird.

If I understand what you are talking about, I have seen this most notably on TNT-HD. As far as I remember I never really noticed it much if at all on any of the other channels. But I dont watch tv 24/7. Maybe TNT does it as a way to try and keep audio and video synced up (skipping frames) when there is a problem. I think ffdshow (and maybe others) has an option for that with xvid and divx when video processing cannot keep up with the sound.

 

[jayiw]

This happens at least once or twice a day to me on my 622. When it happens, it happens on all HD channels and I have to power on and off for it to go back to normal or it will go back to normal in a few minutes or so. This happened ever since the 4.xx update. I have been hoping for a new update that would clear this up. I do not want to exchange the 622 for a new one because I do not want to lose my recordings but if I have to wait any longer for an update I may just do that.

Jay

 

[cummingsje]

I noticed it yesterday as well. At the same time it was happening on UNIHD I also noticed my remote commands were slow to take effect. It doesn't happen on a regular basis on my 622 but every now and again . . .

 

[Foxbat]

I figured it was my ViP211 since I wasn't seeing this on my 622. I had Dish send me a new 211 to try and fix the problem, but the unit I have now is even worse than my original ViP211. I could reboot my old 211 and it seemed to be fine for several hours. Now, I was watching Sopranos on A&E HD (from 61.5?W) and watching it is painful. This reminds me of the mixed frame rate issues that plagued HDNet Movies presentation of "ENRON: The Smartest Guys in the Room".

 

[Foxbat]

I looked at my recording of "The Sopranos" from the other night I had made on my ViP622 and I saw something rather disturbing: Pressing "||" and single frame stepping through the video showed a pattern of 2-2-2-4, where I'd see the picture change, a duplicate frame, a frame change, dup, change, dup, then change, dup, dup, dup. This pattern repeated for the time that I had recorded. It's no wonder my brain is complainging about stuttering video: This is a far cry from a 2:3 dropdown. The question now is whether this is A&E HD's fault or Echostar's?

Can someone else verify that this is happening? Oh, and I get my 9419 from 61.5?W, in case that makes a difference.

 

[Foxbat]

I'm on hold with Dish because my 211 is dropping every third or fourth frame. It's horrendous! The ESPN channels don't seem to have an issue, though, just the 1080i ones.