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    Question How to get hi definition picture with Dish connected by Coaxial cable

    Now that we've had the tv for a few days, I see that the mainstream channels like abc, cbs, nbc have a high def picture but does not fill the screen. Other channels vary on graininess. Dish says we would need a joey at each tv but we're changing out all our tvs and don't want to spend that...
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    Question How to get hi definition picture with Dish connected by Coaxial cable

    That is a good point. I do not see any channels displaying full screen. I have one receiver and I presume it is set to 4K as I have 2 other 4K tvs that are fine. We had these tvs at the time they installed the hopper so thinking the modulator at the receiver is converting the signal and maybe...
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    Announcement Welcome to the Tom's Guide Community!

    Hello. I'm VonnieM. I may be an anomaly here but I'm a 79 year young female. I've been involved in computers since MS-DOS was the operating system (thank you Windows!) when you could use the C prompt command to edit a password file where it was clearly spelled out for you...no...
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    Question How to get hi definition picture with Dish connected by Coaxial cable

    We have Dish TV and recently changed to the Hopper. We have a complex setup with 11 tv's and are mirroring some. When we built our house, it was wired with coaxial to every tv location. The majority of our tv's are 17 years old and we are starting to replace them with Hi Def but the picture...