....Some 10 years later... Let's recap a bit.
Dec. 2016 SF4008 Receiver launch
The SF4008 was promoted in late 2016, with shipment originally planned for December. Octagon's German representative subsequently gave January 3, 2017 as a revised delivery date. Blindscan was already being discussed by prospective buyers in December.
Jan 2017 15:45 Emos (Octagon)
DVB-C cable blind scan is available; SAT blind scan is expected soon.
Note: Emos would continue saying blindscan expected soon for months!
Jul 30, 2017
Satellite Blindscan Development postponed until Kodi completion.
I miss the blind scan which is not on the Octagon SF4008. They say its coming but is it? I will have to bite the bullet and mull over what to buy that has 4K with blind scan. Maybe I should have waited for the Gigablue 4K quad and spent the extra. Back to the computer with 3 windows open...
world-of-satellite.com
Oct 25, 2018 02:21
Captain says Support for the SF4008 has been discontinued; there will be no further updates. The driver company is bankrupt.
Nov 5, 2017
On Satellites.co.uk, moderator william-1 complained that blindscan had been mentioned more than ten months earlier and remained unavailable.
openATV OCTAGON SF8008 E2 4K UHD Hisilicon Kodi with HW Playback DVB-S2X & DVB-C/T2 Combo MIS Multistream Silabs Blindscan (Blindsuche) Kodi HbbTV Stalker Xtream TV Quad Core 64Bit (4x1600MHZ) 15000 DMIPS 8GB Flash & 1GB RAM Gbit LAN Ethernet Wi-Fi 2x
www.satellites.co.uk
Nov. 5, 2018
Octagon Germany says KA-band blind scan confirmed and working.
Thanks to Huevos and others who tested it.
It is included in the current images.
Whats the picture quality like on this ,especially SD ? I've tried a load of receivers since the Alien 2 which was SH4 based and the picture quality on all of them has been inferior. Even the Mutant HD51 which is Arm based and I'm currently using isn't much better than standard Mips receivers...
www.satellites.co.uk
Oct. 16 2026
El Bandido announces satellite blindscan has been added to the Octagon SF4008 in TNAP images.
About ten years later we get our satellite blindscan.
Thanks Octagon!
LOL