HD channel drop-outs

[durl]

A friend of mine just got a new dish and HDTV D* receiver hooked up. He took advantage of a deal that provided "default" receiver, dish, etc. Although he gets very strong signal (90's) he gets pixelation every now and then. SD channels are fine apparently.

I don't know a lot about his setup yet since I haven't been over to see what he's got, but I was curious if anyone else had similar problems. I doubt it's a bad receiver since SD looks good. Any ideas?

[frak]

I believe the pixelation is less a signal strength issue and more a source encoding
issue. You'll usually see the pixelation in high motion scenes which require more
bitrate than directv is using for that channel.

[jdspencer]

Is it any one particular channel? Check the signal strengths on all transponders on all satellites. Since you didn't say which satellite the strengths were tested, I suspect that the pixelation is occurring on a channel from either 119 or 110 birds.