Yea, i saw that post on the other site. I think that was a bit over board. I understand his frustrations, but on the same token, you get NA products and their firmware software is as bad if not worse than the China units. I'm willing to pay a upper price for an item if it actually works. Hearing about all the problems of the HDVR3500 and the A3 makes me glad that I have implemented a wait and see attitude towards these things. Don't complain about some of us resorting to China when the expensive stuff is junk too.
The problem is all the boxes are the SAME! If NA put out a quality, high sensitive tuner that picked up ACM, that tuned in low SR rates, and dealt with transponders with close frequencies. That fully supported the new h265 HEVC formats, supported 4:2:2 and then had a fully tested and user friendly and advanced settings for us Enthusiasts, Myself and I'm sure many others would be on top of it like white on rice even it it had an upper cost entry.
But, for example, i saw Titaniums YouTube video browse of the Chinese K1 plus. It played the UHD videos smoothly and cleanly, something the high end priced NA units still aren't doing. The fact we are buying these units PROVES we are desperate to get a hold of a receiver that can tap into whats available to the FTA enthusiast. I am being somewhat patient as at least the UHD content in NA are mostly looped video clips.
I truly don't understand why 4:2:2 isn't already supported on the Android boxes?? It seems to me they could easily detect that a channel isn't supported by their chip, and then just stream it to another application within its own Android box that does support the codec such as VLC and instantly stream and play it. To the end user, it might take a couple extra seconds to display, but it should be all automated. - Example : Amiko HDSE can steam to Android to watch to 4:2:2 So, being these new STB boxes have android within themselves, it should work!!!