Manufacturers with this attitude are idiots in my opinion. They are shooting themselves in their own foot.
They will generate unsatisfied customers, who will turn away from their products, and instead of helping to go clean the market, they encourage people to buy clones instead.
There are not only dreambox clones, but also vu+ clones and so on.
One good motivation until now, to buy originals instead of clones was that originals get proper support, no need for patches and similar things. Now it looks like one still needs to patch the original box with the original image to get decent functionality.
It's becoming pointless to approach like that.
My guess is that the manufacturer actually cooperates with other image teams and offers patches to them so they actually are getting support with such patches - but that's also what clone manufacturers do! Why buy original boxes then?
What's the motivation behind?
I mean, should we support a manufacturer who is cheating taxes by buying expensive boxes from him?
I could buy a clone for less then half a price from a different manufacturer who is also cheating. What's the point? Me being stupid enough?
Edited by robertut, 7 May 2015 - 21:08.