Gundamalpha,
Care to share how to be a tester? Am interested for it. Thx.

i think it has been done la...

Can anyone show the screenshot of quality of Astro HD? (when available?)

Anybody can enjoy your so-called commercial free HD movies and TV series. It's called "pirating". The whole point of people wanting Astro HD is to watch their favourite shows and movies legally without requiring any storage. It also has that advantage of showing you contents that you had never seen before and wouldn't have thought about seeing. Through Astro, I came across a lot of great movies and tv shows that I never thought I'd search for.

People just love random stuff and surprises. That's what makes TV so great. Plus, you can't watch live streaming sports HD broadcast online using local broadband.

WE WANT HD FOOTBALL! hahaha

This post has been edited by lamusiqa: May 22 2009, 05:32 AM

maybe after measat 3a launch? but i heard tht they're now slowly trying to go for "tapeless era".

measat 3 oledi launch rite?maybe there will launch measat 3a..hehe........after that we can enjoy HD astro..

btw, as u noticed, if u click channel 130(mustika) on astro, the PQ there quit impress, is it HD?2cent question..

Sorry to disappoint, but no. HD viewing requires at least a component cable to display 720p. If you're watching Astro(which is limited to 480i), then no, it is not HD.

Well, not everyone likes the same thing you do. I don't give two hoots about sports. All i care are movies and tv series.

As for "pirating", there's a gazillion threads on this issue in these forums, so we should not start any more on those.

erm..so now we are "enjoying" the los res astro rite..

next time choose your TV wisely

the only thing you can do is play with the settings, or else, switch from 16:9 to 4:3 aspect ratio, at least it helped a bit.

got model that didn't come in with s-video?i think its all equiped....how about use player that have hdmi and link to tv..i think it oso help..but player with hdmi port quit expensive(not like ordinary player price la)

or ur AVR can do s-video upconvert out to HDMI lo

it helps

even its not perfect but i think it helps...but extra electric charges la...for more entertaining, use external speaker(i mean sound system la) that can plug with ur player...so, better picture and sound osos...my 2cent

Digital or not at least made it to 16:9 ratios instead of 4:3... watching astro in widescreen tv really made the people and things become fat and short.

and some "things" get bigger ....nice!

i think i got ur point...me too....haha!!!

im also one of the samsung lcd tv user that doesnt come with s-video input, is it all latest samsung lcd doesnt support it?

if it broadcast on 16:9 then it definitely benefits for LCD TV user, but sad for CRT TV user, 4:3 screen will have letterbox resize lor....

if broadcast 480i in 16:9, at least the picture quality will be slightly better because the image dont need to stretch to much


yes.....at least some good things by stretching 4:3 to 16:9


my series 6 got S-video and VGA input, and also 4 HDMI and 1 headphone jack, but it doesn't support optical in and optical out

There is a setting in Astro to change the ratio but I guess there is no effect at all.

currently im using series 4 with 32 inches(senq said it's latest and exclusive in msia), it comes with 3 HDMI and 2 components(if i don 4get), 2 composite(one of the video is shared with component, means i will less a component input if using 2 composite), and a vga, but all i need is s-video or astro going to support HDMI, haha..


i hv changed the setting of normal/wide to wide, but it is no effect, even i change back to normal mode, the picture quality r still same.

every month pay more than RM100, but this is the only quality we can get...