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Wednesday, December 4th, 2024 11:30 PM

Picture quality with a Gemini piggy-backed to a Genie DVR on Sat

I have had my TV (4K) connected to a Genie DVR with Sat connection for several years.  I have always had great picture quality on live and recorded shows.  I recently added the Gemini piggy-backed to the Genie.  I have had a downgrade in perceived picture quality.  I went through the Display settings in the Gemini menu to the resolution settings and it on the highest 4K p60  setting.  I am wondering if maybe the cable between the two boxes is maybe getting some signal loss.  I have not pulled the boxes back out to try to separate them for testing picture since I had to make several support calls to get the system synced.  I used all the cables that came with the unit.  Any suggestion?

ACE - Sage

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21 days ago

What do you mean by "piggybacked"?

How exactly is the new Gemini connected?

ACE - Expert

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21 days ago

Maybe colocated?

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20 days ago

Yes they do call it colocated.  I have an ethernet cable connecting the two boxes and the hdmi going to tv.

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20 days ago

The picture is not horrible but looks like maybe 720p instead of hd

ACE - Expert

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20 days ago

720 is considered HD

ACE - Expert

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20 days ago

With Genie being co-located you have a regular Genie. Is it the HR54?

Yes 720 is the lowest resolution of HD. But if picture degraded after co-locating the Gemini the question is what actual resolution is being passed through.

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20 days ago

Yes, I have the HR54-500.  Since the Gemini is the device connected to the HDMI cable I thought the fact that the Gemini settings says that the Display is set to 4K p60.  That is the highest setting in the menu.  I "seemed" better with just the Genie HDMI connection.  The TV is a Samsung 4K smart tv.  I can't see where in the tv menus to see anything about the signal coming in.  I appreciate any help the forum can offer.  My steps will be to pull it apart and do individual connections instead of colocated to test.

ACE - Expert

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20 days ago

AFAIK when the Gemini is colocated DTV turns off the HR54 video/audio output so you don't pay the additional TV fee for the HR54.


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