Freesat 4K Boxes - fringe reception?

paddyharben

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Has anybody tried out the new Freesat 4K Boxes in fringe reception areas outside UK? It would be good to know how they compare with the Humax Freesat PVRs which were very good in this regard. My Humax has died but I am wary about going for one of the new boxes without knowing how will perform where I am in Spain.
 

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My Satellite Setup
1.8m Dish, most Sky and Freesat receivers, 80cm on Illusion motor and Dreambox DM7025, TDT, TDT HD, Ariva 100e,
My Location
Gandia, 70kms south of Valencia, Spain
Signal / reception wise, pretty much the same.
But I have had a few issues with both the recording and non recording boxes on various things.
eg, the remote control not responding for 3-4 seconds after each button press (both boxes) - bloody annoying, 90% of the remote buttons not been recognized by the (non reocrding) box (after many factory resets over a few weeks it finally sorted itself out), online features do seem to crash the box...(recording box had to be rebooted about twice a week.
 

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Signal / reception wise, pretty much the same.
But I have had a few issues with both the recording and non recording boxes on various things.
eg, the remote control not responding for 3-4 seconds after each button press (both boxes) - bloody annoying, 90% of the remote buttons not been recognized by the (non reocrding) box (after many factory resets over a few weeks it finally sorted itself out), online features do seem to crash the box...(recording box had to be rebooted about twice a week.
Thanks. Sounds like I should hold off until they've sorted out the glitches.
 

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Signal / reception wise, pretty much the same.
But I have had a few issues with both the recording and non recording boxes on various things.
eg, the remote control not responding for 3-4 seconds after each button press (both boxes) - bloody annoying, 90% of the remote buttons not been recognized by the (non reocrding) box (after many factory resets over a few weeks it finally sorted itself out), online features do seem to crash the box...(recording box had to be rebooted about twice a week.
 
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