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What is with MTV on Dish Network

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eskipper411

I don't know if it's me or Dish Network or any others but I have noticed in some case that the signal would be interrupted for only a second and come back on. It would flicker black and some pixels. This is on the HD side of MTV.
 
Generational quality loss? Remember, what you see on DiSH Net is usually converted and re-compressed at least three or four times before it eventually reaches your receiver. Same reason why the over the air ATSC channels usually look way better than they appear on cable/QAM. Something's probably getting lost at some step in Echostar's signal chain between C-band downlink and their KU-band uplink.

(Either that or the weather's bad at some point in one of the signal paths or there could even be an airplane flying through one of them.......I get that same effect sometimes when PDX's approach is busy. Never forget Occam's Razor.)

[size=8pt]Incidentally, in MPEG video (like the DVB-S variant DiSH use) the effect is not called "pixels" or "pixellation", it's known as "macroblocking". Just thought I should point that out....
 
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