After searching the forum for definitive examples of SDS2000 bugs that you have mentioned I have found nothing of note that could assist Siglent to correct the entirely buggy FW you so frequently describe. ![Confused :-//](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/confused0024.gif)
Well then I have to say that you didn't do a very good job searching then (I even highlighted the revelant part):
37.9 cannot load directly to BETA 2.0
Strange, as this is exactly what I've done yesterday night. It stuck at 5% for a very long time but I just left it sitting there for half an hour and when I came back the update finished.
Not that I'm too impressed, as after playing around with the scope shortly I already came across a few bugs (i.e. display artefacts in FFT mode). ![Banging Head |O](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/bangheadonwall.gif)
Actually, I seem to have found another bug (although I'm not sure if it's new or an old one), unless you think that this is a normal display for an intensity graded AM modulated signal:
![](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/siglent%27s-new-product-msosds2000-series/?action=dlattach;attach=180787;image)
The waveform looks exactly the same in normal mode.
The funny thing is that yesterday intensity grading seemed to work, so I guess that's another one of the sporadic bugs that may or may not show up when you need the functionality.
We all know you have significant experience with many high end scopes, most far beyond the capabilites of the SDS2000 series and as you have taken the trouble and expense to evaulate a SDS2000 for yourself, wouldn't you want it to be fully functional?
Surely you would, wouldn't you? ![Confused :-//](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/confused0024.gif)
Actually, I don't really care much because, while the hardware is certainly nicely done, especially the v1 software is terrible even from an usability point of view. This scope is mostly a toy for me anyways (I used it for some simple non-critical tasks that will complete soon) but I do feel very sorry for anyone who invested serious money in a SDS2000 to use it as a tool, and I'm really glad I don't have to rely on it to make a living. I'm now also pretty convinced that this scope will never ever receive a fixed firmware. We're all taken for a ride by Siglent, as we've been in the past.
I also feel somewhat sorry for Siglent resellers like yourself because you have to justify this crap towards your customers while essentially gambling your reputation on the vague hope that the clowns at Siglent do come up with the magic super update one day.
What all this shows however is that spending the money on some used big brand scope instead is still pretty much a better investment than a Siglent SDS2000 scope.
But hey, there are good news, too, it seems my scope will move on soon as a former colleague has expressed interest in it for one of his funky projects (I guess he'll turn it into a 'scope clock' or something like that, of course assuming that at least X/Y mode does work reliably, which with this scope isn't necessarily the case).
![Smiley :)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)