I wasn't able to post in the review section, most likely due to my low post count, so mods feel free to move the post if you want. I finally feel I've tested my Sonicview 8000 enough to give it a fair review. This is my first receiver so I don't have a lot of experience with FTA boxes. Download Erle Stanley Gardner Ebooks Pdf. If you see something I haven't touched on that you want to know more about I'll do my best to get the answer for you. Right off the bat this receiver is not capable of showing DVB-S2 or 4:2:2 (audio only).

As it is from the factory it has no 8psk support either. There is an after market card signal pirates like to use for 8psk but it is not supported by factory firmware. The Bloody Penguin Game. Now that we've got that out of the way onto some of the things this receiver can do. The SV8000HD has an ATSC tuner. I haven't used this feature in a while, but when I tested it out several months ago it worked as well as the ATSC tuner in my Samsung DLP (no surprise there, the 8000's ATSC tuner is made by Samsung). Now for satellite viewing. I tested this unit on both C and Ku bands.

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I haven't had any trouble tuning anything I've tried (I probably haven't been as thorough as some). I have found that the signal/quality meter to give a low values.

160l Drivers. For instance RTN on AMC 9 always shows the quality level as being 5-29% yet the channel comes in with no freezing or glitches. Most other FTA comes in at around 45%, also with no picture issues. The unencrypted signals on circular satellites usually come in at 99-100% quality, as do a few of the stronger linear signals. I do have a quad Invacom on my 36' Fortec Star dish and I'm wondering if maybe it's weighing the support arm down slightly, as I've seen other members have had this problem. When I have some free time I'll get out and test this and report back. I use the 8000 with a USALS motor. It does an excellent job of driving/guiding this motor.

I had the USALS part of this working well at one point. I disconnected my HH motor when I was using a GBox for my BUD (pre 4DTV), and I haven't gotten the USALS to work correctly since. I will try to look into this and follow up on it.

Since USALS was working well at one point I'm sure I just need to reset something in the receiver or on the motor. This receiver does blindscan and it does it well. It will even find channels/transponders when you are not dead on the satellite, which helps a lot when you're not exactly sure if you're in the neighborhood of the satellite you're looking for. It is also very easy to tell when it encounters an active transponder, even if it is one it can't decode. This would make the 8000 an excellent companion to a receiver that was unable of blindscanning. The receiver does have basic PVR functions. Basically set a timer to tune to the channel that you want to record.