The latter is in fact more important, since the strength of a signal is not always important to the quality. The only thing you might want to change is the on-screen display language. Our test version offered English, German and Spanish. But Samsung informed us of other languages being added as soon as possible. Also for multi-lingual programmes you can set the preferred language.
Time is set automatically by the box by taking it from the datastream provided by the broadcasters.
Multi satellite reception Integrated in this CS-9800CI is DiSEqc and the already mentioned 12 Volt control. Both will be of great help if you want to receive more than one satellite. Up to eight different satellites can be handled. DiSEqC can be of great help here. Most common LOFs are already listed but you can manually enter every odd one you might want to use.