I personally have no problem with TM boxes apart from in the early days with half working receiver's but that support put me off for life, but I know where my money would go If I was forking out for a premium box.
in the early days, the support for TM was fantastic, and thats probably what gave TM receivers their boost, then after whatever happened between TM and the forum that used to be the outlet for all the patches and software etc, the software took a massive nose dive, then the linux boxes started to appear, and the software spluttered along, before diving to kamikaze levels.
slowly, on the closed receivers software, things have been getting better, and the linux receivers, while the software support is now on a par with all of the major receivers, the hit that TMs reputation took over their previous 'attempts', blocks out whats now there for a lot of people
What the TM800 did to TM may take another 5 years for their reputation to recover enough for people to put their trust in them again, but, the new linux receivers ARE actually putting other receivers out of action, on the ViX forum, one of their admin openly posts that he now uses TM linux receivers in place of his Vu receivers, quite a few of their beta team also post the same. My duo got sold, and a twin in its place, and i know of 3 other people who have done the same
