I've flashed my receiver with latest test firmware (out only yesterday) and there are some positive changes - If before just plugging CAM into receiver caused ALL (emu or c/s) channels to pixelate, now only channels opened by CAM are pixelated, and pixelation is significantly lower (at least I can see what channel I'm watching now), but still, unwatchable. This is confirmed Octagon SF918 problem - support says that they will fix it since december, but no results so far.
For comparison, today I went to flea market and sourced old SilverCrest SL65CI for $20 - Diablo in it works just fine.
The power consumption idea is really interesting - I'll just open my receiver, connect multimeter and oscilloscope and measure actual voltages.
Thanks everybody for help and ideas! |