I can't speak to the quality of the other receivers mentioned here, but I have had an SV8000 as my main receiver for about nine months now. Overall I have had pretty good luck with it as most of what I watch is PBS on 125 and a few others (Ebru, Al Jazeera, and Worldview) and not asked for anything fancy of it. That said, I have to do a factory reset every couple of months as it starts locking up in blind scan for no apparent reason.
As a general analogy, quality wise, if it were a DVD player it would be a $35 Kmart RCA, not a $100 Sony.
No 8psk or other newer emerging standards, and locally here they still go for over $200. It wouldn't, in my opinion be a bad introductory receiver, but only if you could find it for substantially less than retail.
It replaced an SV360 Premier (SD only). I think the 360 was a bit more finished.
As a general analogy, quality wise, if it were a DVD player it would be a $35 Kmart RCA, not a $100 Sony.
No 8psk or other newer emerging standards, and locally here they still go for over $200. It wouldn't, in my opinion be a bad introductory receiver, but only if you could find it for substantially less than retail.
It replaced an SV360 Premier (SD only). I think the 360 was a bit more finished.