review of the satopia from Fastlane on another site:
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My Review of the Satopia
Unit was well packaged and came with the receiver, remote, batteries, diseqc, comport cable, RCA jacks.
No USB stick was included
The receiver is normal is size, with white front face plate
and has a front door that holds a built in card reader and USB port below the reader.
Setup
I proceeded to download the latest satopia files
and put it on my desktop, then unzipped the file and drag the file over to my USB stick.
Then I connected the receiver to the TV and once completely installed proceeded to
turn the rear of the receiver on, set my language and saved,
then I loaded the USB stick and then clicked on Menu Searched for a while before
I found the USB Tools but in the end I found it
Menu/Channel Setup/File Tools/OK/USB Explorer/OK
The boot load was quick but the flash write process was a little slow about 1 1/2 minutes.
I then proceeded to set the Sat settings up and quickly realized that there were Sats missing
So I decided to do a "Factory DEFAULT" Once the receiver rebooted the sats were in the list
I Then proceeded to setup Sats for my setup 82,91,110,119 I saved all My settings and scanned each sat seperatly
Scanning Was extremely fast for 110,119 but 91 and 82 I found there was a hang on certain TPS
could have been my end also
Now I decided to set all options to my liking like time, Bev renumber 1000's,
Time etc etc .. once done I then proceeded to set it to channel DN 300 for it to roll, Dish took about 10 minutes to roll,
I then put it on Bev channel B3V 1212 for it to roll took about 6 minutes to roll.
I then scrolled around the channels and moved back and forth between Dish and Bev
and found some small issues that need to be fixed (Remote Freezing and System Freezing on PPV Open reboot Loss of key info)
I checked the EPG and it had already started to fill in
Rating 10 being the best
Ease of setup 7.5 Has Lots of room for improvement needs to be more KISS (keep it simple stupid)
Menu/OSD 7
Scanning 9 extremely Fast
Picture Quality 8
EPG 8
Over all 7.5 a great receiver for the $$
Things I would like to see fixed in the upcoming bins is
1) add a sat banner while setting up sats signal and quality meter on same page
2) more user friendly a lot of the functions are in hidden places and a noob really has to look to find them
3) Freezing fixed and better remote response
4) Keys saved if the unit is rebooted
5) Menu to edit and view all the keys We have no menu to view private keys
Linear Mode
