Astro called me just now and informed me that their will call me again tomorrow about Astro B.yond. That's fast.

I think their call me now just to verify that I am truely subscribe to Astro B.yond.

well... NGC would be fun to record =P.... I would want to record all eps of "Don't tell my mother" haha! These show is hard to find online

Just called Astro and was told to wait till next year for their recordable version to replace my AstroMAX. Not sure if it's going to be a new decoder box or just with new firmware to support recording to external harddisk. I was told that they have to transfer my account to Astro B.yond (new smartcard) if I upgrade now. This means that I will not be able to view with AstroMAX even if I get to keep the existing AstroMax setups, unless I subscribe for an additional standard account.

BTW, looks like the current decoder is a customized version of PACE satellite receiver with USB port which Astro claims is going to be the first in the world to support video recording to external harddisk..

PACE DS830

actually are astro going to show WWII in HD on history channel HD? this series is awesome

i m not sure 4 that info....she always put me on hold...........and ask her superviser.. then talk to me...really bad conversation! anyone here know when they will charge???

im sure you can checkout the schedule on the history channel website, if not go look at starhub's program guide.

the reason why i want 2 keep my current max...just 2 experiment . sloting new smart card [ in existing max slot] , otherwise give 2 my neighbour !

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This post has been edited by low98944: Dec 14 2009, 04:25 PM

They call me saturday , tomorrow they'll call me up

Well it supports SD output , so hopefully I can get it to work with my MCE-150. I'll be needing it to record SD shows

huh.. why? WWII where got HD recording?

yeah lol, most likely will be resampling to higher resolution lol... but its kinda wasting bandwidth if they really do so, black and white, lots of dots/noise/snow around the video....

Well I'm not sure if one is the 50% one (I think I got the second one before that promo) and I don't mind paying in full for the second account, but they both share the same dish. So do I need to replace both?

If i were to subscribe new Astro account how much will it cost for B.Yond leh?

any standard def packages + rm20


registered last night, and just got confirmation call from them.

This post has been edited by eone: Dec 14 2009, 05:38 PM

there is a lot of noise but all the video are in colour and many never been show on tv before. this is the best quality that those video will be seen in.

watch first only comment la.. now is Epi 5 or more already.. .. WWII in HD (history channel)..

the opening shot : this program contains rare films of world war II, originally shot in color, Found during a 2 year worldwide search..

ok, so the raw footage is very blur or dirty/grainy.. but HD mastering preserves the original quality, I dun need another low bitrate MPEG compression (if broadcast thro normal SD) to add a layer of blur-ness on to already blur/grainy stock footage..

also the other composites like photos/ pictures and CGI text are all HD sharp.. so is the razor sharp H channel logo..

This post has been edited by ar188: Dec 14 2009, 06:40 PM

my house got internal cable..izzit the astro b-yong also need to change other cable for view??

i can confirm that oso....sent them an email last saturday, got a phone call from them 10mins ago....

altho the lady on the phone doesnt sound like she knows an awful lot...she confirmed some of my worse fears...

1) none of the condo/apartment using centralized dish is B.yond ready, meaning they will have to replace everything.

2) she say will need to replace the cabling also..this kinda baffled me cos all units is ready with concealed wiring & tv point. they can easily run new wiring in their risers, but how on earth they gonna go into each individual units & say "maam, can i come in hack your wall to conceal the new astro cables in order for you to enjoy HD?" who gonna pay for the repair + painting works??

the only other way is to run those cabling on the surface which will be ugly as hell...

either way, i still dun understand how the gonna replace the cables...

3) astro currently 'working' with all building managements to replace current dish...estimated duration, 18-24months..

whatever it is, unless my management allows me to install individual dish on the wall (also need to borrow their gondola to install it) there's no way to enjoy HD...i'll be very jealous of you guys....very very jealous....

i'm wondering if i can start a petition to get the management to speed up the upgrading works dunno how many souls in my condo as anxious as me getting HD content from astro

This post has been edited by daryl.k: Dec 14 2009, 07:26 PM

Buy slingbox.

Don't need to change the cablelah. I test with my old dish and cable and it still works. No problemo.

Component can support high res (up till 1080i if I'm not mistaken) but astro box will output 576i only so better use HDMI to component and you get the about the same as HD.

Congrat. Now u know what I see. So anybody who still decide whether want to subscribe or not, subscribe fast or you'll be in a vely vely long waiting list.

Router? Anybody can answer this? I don't know how.

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Added on December 14, 2009, 7:41 pmIts not easy woo to change all the cable and splitter. U'll need a new switch to split all the signal. The higher the building and the more unit in it the longer it take for upgrade. You are lucky if they manage to install it in 18 month.

Start the petition, get all owner to sign and give it to management. Don't forget petition Astro too to upgrade ur building first.

This post has been edited by ecam: Dec 14 2009, 07:41 PM

If i need record HD using PC , if there possible ?
my house is normal flat tv , can record HD right ?

wat i need and how much for the recoded or hardware ?
can list out the price and the guild ? i still newbie ~

thanks