Must respond to the pointless post.... Temptation too much... Can't control impulses...

I just got off the phone with Direct TV. You're right. That's awesome! That was the biggest reason I never went with Direct TV. We had Direct TV at our apartment before we moved into a house and Pegasus was horrible! Now that DirectTV is an option, I may look at switching. It would be...

Rant - Long I had an 811 that I bought for $199. I bought it for two purposes: 1. As a general Dish Network receiver for the dish channels 2. To hook up to my Tivo stand-alone for OTA locals I found out though that I could not do #2 (my primary purpose for buying it) because output...

I just received the 811 recently. My software version is 266-LADD-N after the update. On OTA HDTV programs (such as CSI) through S-video, the video is still dark. I don't know if there was an improvement or not. It was dark before and it is still dark now. My previous 6000 and my...

266 is installed. I did verify that it is on the receiver. The S-video darkness issue is still there. I don't understand why some people say that it has been improved on all inputs. I have mine set to 1080i, 16X9 aspect. The darkness shows up on OTA SD broadcasts (HDTV also). So are people...

My SD S-Video goes to my Tivo. It was one of the benefits of having simultaneous outputs. Recordings on the Tivo are so bad due to the small size, compressed garbage at the top, and darkness that I am probably going to switch locals back to my tuner in the Tivo.

True True.

Local OTA picture quality over S-Video is terrible. It is too dark, rarely sizes itself properly, and has an annoying line of garbage at the top of the broadcast. I have to record from S-Video because I am using a stand-alone Tivo to record stuff from it. My previous 6000 was much better (I...