Receiver Recommendation

[jaco59]

For a few years now, I have been using a Sonicview 8000HD + SVLAN. Unfortunately, lightning recently struck my house and both were fried. I am not too upset about it because the SV8k was pretty darn noisy.

Anyways, would anybody be able to recommend a FTA receiver to replace my SV8k? There are so many to choose from. I am looking for a receiver that (1) is HD (2) is quiet (3) does not overheat (4) has blind scan and (5) has built in ethernet so I don't need to think about a dongle.

I'd appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

J

[Anubis]

This question has been asked a whack of times in this exact section you posted in. Might want to read some of them for starters.

[eramnauth]

DreamlinkT5 is a good HD receiver

[ftastudent2]

For a few years now, I have been using a Sonicview 8000HD + SVLAN. Unfortunately, lightning recently struck my house and both were fried. I am not too upset about it because the SV8k was pretty darn noisy.

Anyways, would anybody be able to recommend a FTA receiver to replace my SV8k? There are so many to choose from. I am looking for a receiver that (1) is HD (2) is quiet (3) does not overheat (4) has blind scan and (5) has built in ethernet so I don't need to think about a dongle.

I'd appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

J

Nothing current is comparable to the SV8K if you have a motorized dish. Nothing in HD comes close to it for moving across the arc and finding all the sat's. Sig gets stronger as you approach a sat even if the TP is not active. At a strong signal flip through the TP's and when quality rises the SV will tell you what sat you are on. Current boxes that do HD all seem to have sig and quality at 97% until you are dead on a sat so long as you also have a strong tp entered into it.
If you have a fixed dish I concur with the T5.