Any other discontinued models and/or companies to advise people about? I'd hate to think that someone was pwn off obsolete stock from a company Hugo abandoned years ago and pretending to be a real NA supplier to move that last case.
Nevermind I'll just contact "drsat" for an answer since for sure no matter what the facts are you are not related.
I am sure if your offer was "legit" you would tell everyone how hugp ran and the china nameholder went under, riight?
Not sure why i'm wasting time replying to an off topic post but will do it as it was directed towards me.
First of all, Hugo did not abandon AzBox. However, OpenSat was forced to sell the AzBox brand due to extenuating circumstances with a certain European distributor who shall remain nameless. I won't go in more detail as the matter is still being dealt with legally.
The current owner of the AzBox brand is now HTCE Limited which is a holding company based out of Hong Kong owned by a few different companies, one of them a large consumer electronics manufacturer.
We are not certainly not desperate to "move that last case" as we would have pulled out of the market at the beginning of this year when we completely ran out of stock! Not sure if you noticed but none of our authorised dealers had *any* miniMe American Edition units in stock from sometime in March 2014 until mid June 2014 once our new batch of units arrived.
Sorry to say but AzBox is in for the long haul so hopefully you can respect us as a competitor. This is a good thing for the NA true FTA market as it forces both of us to improve and innovate our products in order to remain competitive, benefiting the true FTA consumer.
As an analogy, do you honestly think that Chevy would make so much effort to improve their trucks if Ford and Dodge were not in the truck market as well?
I've said it before and I'll say it again... May the best truck win!