Poor quality HD image

We've just cancelled our BT TV package as the equipment is dire in both terms of picture quality and product reliability.
Issues, such as intermittent crashing box, motion blurr, digital artefacts, poor frame rates and generally just dreadfully substandard performance.
My former Technisat Freesat satellite reciever gave us perfect performance until the trees in the wood behind us blocked the signal totally. Else I would never have parted with it.
We will carry on with the Netflix account and revert to running that stream through my Sony Playstation as the picture is much clearer through that as is BBC iPlayer.
All in all a great disappointment.
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I made it clear that the reciever is poor quality.
There is no fault with it per se, except poor design.
Much of the limitations with digital signal processing are made worse through this particular design. The motion blur and various other processing artefacts make the image intolerable to watch on this device.
My background is in broadcast and maybe I can see things the standard viewer 'can't see'. This is my shortcoming and not anyone else.
I have high expectations and will be continually disappointed unless the equipment is up to the job, so to speak.

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