Did Dish push down some new SW for the 6000?

[invaliduser88]

As of today, I have some odd behavior with a couple of my OA HD channels. 27 (FOX): This channel will not do partial zoom or full zoom.

19 (UPN) Full Zoom causes a very shaky picture.

All other channels appear to be fine and I can zoom them without the distortion.

Anybody got any ideas?

Did Dish push down some new software that might have some undesireable side affects?

[Mark Lamutt]

I don't think it's Dish, but more likely your local stations doing something strange with the encoding. I had a similar issue about 6 months ago with our Fox station in Denver - the 6000 wouldn't do either of the zoom modes. Turns out the station was installing a new encoder (that has since gone bad on them again!) and the setup was causing the 6000 problems. If it's a big deal, call the stations and ask them if anything has changed recently.

[invaliduser88]

Fixed the shaky picture by zooming in and then going into the HDTV setup on the 6000 and adjusted it a few lines up. That shaking went away after that.

[Chris Blount]

Aha! I have seen this. On some OTA locals, the up conversion from 480p or 720p to 1080i doesn't work right and you get a striping effect in the picture. The cure is to do what you said. Go into the HDTV menus and adjust the position of the picture.

[DarrellP]

If your Fox is broadcasting in 480p, the only thing the 6000 will do is Stretch. This is a quirk with the 6000's software, I believe. I emailed Dish Tech Support over 3 months ago and they never responded.

[invaliduser88]

Yeah, Fox is broadcasting 480p here.