asking what the best receiver is is like asking what the best car is. Ask ten people and you'll get ten diffeent answers.
Where I live, the best car is one that weighs as little as possible because the local car tax and insurance is determined by weight.
Whenever I visit the US I am amazed that even small families drive around in cars which wouldn't fit on the roads here. The best car there is one that can potentially fit the entire contents of your house in.
In France the best car is French, and in the rest of mainland Europe anyone on a middling salary feels duty bound to declare German BMW & Mercedes as the best.
Italians like cars that can kill them the quickest, whereas Swedes want theirs to survice a nuclear holocaust and outlive the planet.
It's a case of: horses for courses.
You would need to describe exactly what you want to see (which channels, which satellites), describe the degree to which you want to get involved in (ahem) DIY cards; your budget; your location (determines which packages are available legally), your "technicality" (are you a simple TV-watcher, or do you like lots of software and menus to play with?), your actual "peripheral" requiements (need to record stuff? want to watch more than one thing at once? need to link your receiver to multiple TVs?) ....etc etc
Maybe then it would at least be possible to say "this is best for you".
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