Louis40 wroteHi Vegetaleb,
I am a bit surprised that a DVB-C receiver cost around 200$ from the cable guy..you have to be careful if you get one from abroad the firmware from the cable guy of your neighborhood won't apply to it. I have a receiver that has DVB-S/S2 and DVB-C/T and i searched for the channels on DVB-C ie local dish channel i didn't get what i wanted.
I bought from our cable guys a DVB-C it cost me 110$ but in fact it's worth 30USD. He has the firmware on which all the encrypted channels can be opened and they are 290 channels..
One time the receiver won't turn on (my mistake), and fortunately i just recently bought it i asked for warranty so he fixed it with some yelling..
So in my opinion you should be careful in buying from abroad it may not work for the local cable channels..
There is no f** way I am buying again from this mafia, like you said it's worth 30-60$ and they sell it 150$ (Achrafieh is always more expensive).
I am still waiting for the repair guy in Bourj Hammoud results, if not I am taking the risk of getting the golden V8 model from aliexpress.
The receiver that I had used to work in the mountain but only getting 25 channels over 200.
I think because it's limited by presets on the receiver itself, it has presets like Germany,Finland...the cable guy used to just put the German preset and start the search, no special Mhz and QAD, this receiver doesn't have a broad Mhz search which can explain the lack of channels on the mountain, but the V8 Golden is supposed to scan every single Mhz on all QAD
Old receivers were like you said reprogrammed to special Mhz and QAD (usually 2 or 3) and if you don't know them you wont get them all.
Yours was HD or normal receiver?