if youre going to pay anything for a clone receiver, make sure you can afford to bin the amount of cash that you pay for it, as at some point, you WILL get some form of issue. Wether its ensuring you only use a specific software, cheap components needing replacing, or the whole thing being rendered useless by an anti clone counter measure, itll happen, look at the popular receiver over the last few years since clones started, DMM500 and the 'adios amigo' time bomb, DMM800 and the 'No CA error', Solo2 and their timebomb, there will probably be others, as well as the sim card updates, image and driver issues, faulty PSU's, damaged VFDs, when there is a problem, the shipping costs back to china, as well as the endless time wasted on sorting the issues out
if youre saving up to buy a clone, save for a little bit longer, and buy an original, if you can afford to set fire to a few hundred quid and not think anything of it, then get a clone, and the headaches that go with it, as at some point, there will be issues (look at the 400 page thread for the Solo2 clone for example), and if you can afford to waste that much money, sponsor my missus to jump out of a plane for cancer research next sunday via her justgiving page
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