ESPN also. Why not ESPN from the states.

buy a universal remote

Finally.. My B.Yond is up and running. Applied 13th, T&C briefing on 16th.. today 22nd Dec.. got it.
The PQ is very good on Nat Geo HD and History HD. TV: Panny P42X10K Cable: Use back existing RG-6
Is a whole experience on Astro now. Too bad too little HD channels for now. My location : Ipoh, Perak.

Called the CS and inquired about my installation. She told me that there's a long queue due to large request. I told her back .. why got people registered later got theirs installed first? She said she will do something about it. I doubt it. Hehe.

My method is to:
1) use the analogue audio of the receiver, connect to yr tv set, choose a hmdi connection that accepts audio in yr tv set
2) disable hdmi audio that you connect from yr receiver in your tv setting
3) select the analogue audio in yr tv

You will lose HD Audio and will only have stereo, but you can control the volume with the astro controller ....

U use back existing cable also can get the HD ah? Then I wonder why do they need to chg the cable?

why u want ESPN from state la? More of the time will just show on NBA, NFL and Baseball, what good in that? we asian watch the real football more, maybe 0.1% only of the population care about the american sport.

ESPN Asia is better because of the localization content and more accurate demographic coverage. Now if there is ESPN Malaysia@Asia Pacific, will be more awesome. Cover the damn local league please!

Astro remote no effect on volume. I calibrated the Byond remote to be used as my Pana plasma remote (see ur manual guide) using the code given. Working very well to control volume/ AV channel / on & off for TV. Great Byond remote.

hez an expat...


just tokkd to my JMB Chairman, will highlight the centralizd dish to be HD enabled issue in our monthly management meeting, hopefully my apt will HD enabled our centralzd dish..

find a reason to move to a landed home?

can. initially was planning to replace it. But the installer check the signal quality first.
2 bars. Left and right bar. Left is 85% (Signal Quality) and Right 100% (Signal Strength).
So since the left bar is 85% , installer said changing it is not necessary. He asked me to keep
the 20m cables comes with it. So now i have spare cable.

The installer is very friendly too.

oredi hv 1, need to either evict my tenant now!!!... or can gao dim with him to swap homes..

muahahahaha

This post has been edited by accitzone: Dec 22 2009, 04:32 PM

Got this crap from Astro CS:

"We refer to your e-mail with regard to the Astro B.yond installation.

We wish to inform you that installation will be on a first come first served basis. Please understand that our turnaround time to install is also dependent on our installation capacity and the supply of the B.yond set. We regret any inconvenience caused.

Should you have any enquiries on any other aspects, kindly contact our Contact Centre at 1300-82-3838 which is operational from 8.00 am to 12.00 midnight daily or email to wecare@astro.com.my.

We appreciate the opportunity to be of service to you."

I have call them on 11/12, confirm t&c on 15/12. Until today, no call from Astro.

Ipoh also got already....When is Penang turn
Register online on 13-Dec, T&C brienfing on 16-Dec....wait until now also no installer call me

u need to chase them with calls. i've spent quite a number of calls since yesterday. calling CS and to 2 installers.
swapping from 1 installer to another. The installer's no. was given by CS. They even provide me with the
installer ID for double verify.

someone pls do a review and photos. pls...

Registered on 18th Dec, Installed just now. Location Penang. I asked the installer how many has he installed, he said I'm the first!!! Anyway, installation went very smooth. Used back the same cable from the New dish to the new decoder. Completed installation and activation in 40 minutes. Signal seems to be very strong at about 85% and Signal quality is at 100%! Interesting......

Did a quick check on the available channels, INCREDIBLE!!!! this is quite similar to the demos that we see being shown in TV shops.

I have got it working via HDMI with my Panasonic Plasma TV (audio and video ok); and via the coax digital audio cable to my Denon receiver (ok). Have not really check if the audio is 5.1 or just plain stereo.

How to calibrate it? I don't see any guide to calibrate my remote with my LCD in their user guide book...
I also use Panny... but not Plasma la..., just LCD...

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Added on December 22, 2009, 4:59 pm@ Kelvin...
you can ask tien8tien...
he/she (sorry, i don't know your gender ) also came from Penang....

This post has been edited by AjkR06: Dec 22 2009, 04:59 PM

Just got my b.yond this afternoon at around 1:30pm. Apply last tuesday, got a call from astro on wednesday, got a call from installer on friday ask me whether i will be at home on saturday which sadly I wasn't, sunday and monday as well. So they came today. which is good

Anyway, when i set to dolby digital 5.1, no sound at all on HD channels, anybody know why? is it because of the audio cable? I thought with HDMI, it supposed to support both video & audio? ( i got pioneer home theather system, also connected with HDMI and it support audio + video ), so what's actually i've done wrong?


If i'm not mistaken, F1 normally aired on starsport. so no HD la..

Unfortunately my panny LCD did not have option to disable audio via HDMI ...

This post has been edited by AjkR06: Dec 22 2009, 05:01 PM