Ann Durango
Auditioning
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2002
- Messages
- 7
DISH recently installed their system at my house. For several days i still had AT&T cable and could compare the picture quality. Cable is clearly better most of the time.:frowning: Was wondering if this partly has to do with how the installer ran the cable from the dish to the receiver. He used RG6 from the dish going to a dipole connector buried in the ground, then went from that to another dipole on the side of the house, which is connected to the older (and thinner) coax cable TV going thru the wall to another connector mounted on the inside wall. Then he ran RG6 again to the sat receiver. I called Dish technical help complaining about the picture quality and how the installer ran the cable with three connectors, rather than one straight run. The technician said that since the signal between the dish and receiver is just an uncompressed digital bitstream, the three connectors would not affect picture quality. Is this bogus? Or is he right? (P.S. Have been lurking on this forum for some time now and have already gotten loads of greater info. Thanks to everyone who posts good technical info and equipment reviews.)