The BEST is a tough judgement, but considering the current state of blindscan in HD boxes, possibly the Pansat 9200 HD with the new DVB-S2 blindscan option might be the choice ( but it certainly wouldn't be the unanimous choice , nor even mine ).
On Ku band there are HD feeds and uplinks, but only a few HD channels. There is more HD available on C-band than on Ku band. Furthermore, considering that a lot of C-band is moving to DVB-S2 8psk modulation, to really cover all the bases you'd need a 10 foot dish and the ability to view 4:2:2 chroma channels. The Pansat 9200 cannot do 4:2:2 chroma, but the new AZbox CAN ( but doesn't have blindscan ). In fact, except for it's lack of blindscan, I'd call the AZbox HD Elite the BEST HD receiver available.
So , you see, there's no simple answer, because of the variety of signals we can conceivably run into, and no one box yet does it all-including blindscan . ( Haven't even talked about DCII, yet )
On Ku band there are HD feeds and uplinks, but only a few HD channels. There is more HD available on C-band than on Ku band. Furthermore, considering that a lot of C-band is moving to DVB-S2 8psk modulation, to really cover all the bases you'd need a 10 foot dish and the ability to view 4:2:2 chroma channels. The Pansat 9200 cannot do 4:2:2 chroma, but the new AZbox CAN ( but doesn't have blindscan ). In fact, except for it's lack of blindscan, I'd call the AZbox HD Elite the BEST HD receiver available.
So , you see, there's no simple answer, because of the variety of signals we can conceivably run into, and no one box yet does it all-including blindscan . ( Haven't even talked about DCII, yet )