I have the Global 500 STB. While I loved the German channels, I had a problem with the picture freezing and returning to the menu. This would occur approximately once per hour during the week and every 3-4 hours on weekends. I attributed this to signal dropout somewhere along the chain of internet servers. The most annoying part was that in order to restore the picture the power cord had to be removed and the STB rebooted. It seems like it would be easy to have the STB automatically try to restore an interrupted connection.

Has anyone else had this problem? Is it the global 500? Is there a new STB that does not have this problem?