PROBLEM: POOR PICTURE QUALITY!!! :-(

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Sounds like a video demodulator problem. Replace the receiver.

HWBossHoss wrote:

> Hello All:
>
> I don't know if this is the proper place to post this question, but I thought I
> would ask.
>
> HERE'S MY PROBLEM: I am a U.S. resident who bought a (legal) Bell ExpressVU
> Canadian dish service. I have installed the Bell ExpressVU system and aimed my
> new satellite dish perfectly. I am getting close to a 100 percent signal
> strength (between 98 & 100 percent on Bell Express satellite #91). I have even
> gone so far as to cut down some small tree limbs that were about 30 feet in
> front of the dish. There are now NO trees or buildings in front of the dish.
>
> I am gettting PERFECT sound and I am receiving all my channels...BUT...the
> picture is horribly grainy. You know how a satellite system's picture starts to
> look during heavy rain? Well, my picture looks like that all the time. It
> doesn't get any worse OR better...it's just the same awful grainy picture all
> the time.
>
> I have talked this over with technical support and have tried moving the dish
> and re-booting the system...nothing works.
>
> One more thing: I have the Bell ExpressVU 3120 system, if that makes any
> difference.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this problem, and were you able to fix it? PLEASE
> HELP! THANKS!