New to forum here, and I wanted to toss this out to verify what our local Dish dealer told me today. I approached them with the idea of wanting to upgrade to a HD package along with the HD DVR 722. All sounded good except he did caution me on a possibility of seeing a few more 'picture drops' do to inclimate weather. Currently I have older (meg2) receivers that have been very reliable and only loose the pic during a VERY heavy thunderstorm. Might happen on an average of once or twice a year. The dealer went on to explain that the newer receivers have lost a degree of signal strength scale as to where it does not have as much 'room' to drop before the signal is too weak to activate a picture. He said the older equipment could handle the cloud / rain cover better than the newer stuff.
I'm asking here if this is in fact true and would I experience more picture loss going with the 722?
Dealer said they get many more service calls (complaints) now regarding this issue. And for what's it's worth, this isn't a fly by night sat. dealer, they are the areas premier A/V dealer and go to great strides to 'dial' everything in correctly upon installation.
I've been a Dish customer for better than 15 years and would like to stay with them, but I'm a little hessitant after hearing this. I would NOT be a happy camper signing an additional 2- year contract to make the upgrade and experience less realiable service than what I've had in the past.
What's everyones take on this?? Thank you in advance
I'm asking here if this is in fact true and would I experience more picture loss going with the 722?

I've been a Dish customer for better than 15 years and would like to stay with them, but I'm a little hessitant after hearing this. I would NOT be a happy camper signing an additional 2- year contract to make the upgrade and experience less realiable service than what I've had in the past.
What's everyones take on this?? Thank you in advance
