Finally.. astro called me about this byond..
they asked for my IC no and asked me whether I confirm to take byond...
I gave my Ic no and said wanna take byond..hehe...
The RM20 will need to pay starting from April 2010.. so 4 months free and for the first month after installation..probably January bill, there will be RM10 extra for stamp duty charge (one time charge only).
They promised to install new byond set within 10 working days starting from today...
I also want to keep my astro max decoder, so he said that I need to pay RM80 to the installer on the day of installation.

yes.... 

your 2 decoder need a splitter to share one dish, but I guess you already have that
new dish may have improved version of lnb head, could improve on the received signal, gives you better resistance to rain-fade.

yes... last week, they called me on Saturday to confirm the order...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQIjQnOneqE

Launching day...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQIjQnOneqE

Launching day...

measat 3a Launched 21 June 2009, has 12 Ku-band and 12 C-band transponders, design life of 15 years

old measat 3 launched 11 December 2006, has 24 Ku/24 C band transponders

hey guys...2day at around 9 a.m astro called...they said they'll be coming to my house to fix astro byond...so then later they came and they switched my decoder,dish and my remote-control(china-made)....the cable that goes from my dish to decoder no need to be changed...can use old one...and so...i'm now enjoying full glory HD...watched the love guru on hbo-hd....awesome...sports are also good...but i can notice that there are lines when there is fast movement on supersport hd

b.t.w : u can choose your resolution between 576i,576p,720p and 1080i....i'm now watching 1080i....but if i watch 720p....its a little bit blurry compared to 1080i....

Guys,

Why are you all acting so pleased when you don't have to get a new dish or wiring? You really have lost!

Firstly, indirectly you have actually paid for the new dish but most importantly the new dish and LNB give about a 6db stronger signal that the old dish! I have checked this for myself!

The new dish is an entirely new model, it looks different and performs a whole lot better.

If you have an old dish there will be occasions when you will loose signal due to rain... I had my dish changed so I will continue to watch while you have nothing!!!! Going back to my university maths, 6db extra signal strength is about 170% stronger!

Do not keep your old dish!

Also, the more joins or splits in the wire the worse the signal, if the installer connects to your internal cable you will loose signal strength... that is certain!

If you do not get your dish upgraded and you insist on using your existing cable then never ever complain about rain fade... you could have had it (almost) fixed! 

Ah! Unfortunately I don't know channels or anything like that. All I possibly can predict is that they will launch in batches of 5 as this is how many channels fit on one transponder.

I don't really have any inside information on this, my expertise is more on what happens once the signal has left their broadcast center and on its way to us.

I have done professional installations for nearly 20 years and helped trial many new technologies. I do have some dealings with Astro but not directly.

As a preview of what is to come look around the rest of the world! What was a surprise in their launch line up was Astro Super Sports HD, this must mean they have also installed some HD infrastructure to compile their own channel!

Also, the ESPN HD Asia feed is available nowhere else, are Astro the first to have ESPN HD Asia? I think they might be... note ESPN Asia is totally different to the rest of the world due to rights issues.

I agree, change everything, new decoder, new dish and new wires.. see my previous post... the new dish almost doubles your signal strength (especially as you cannot use splitters).

BTW: did you know that every splitter halves your signal strength, if you have 4 boxes and one dish your signal could be at one quarter the actual strength! which means more rain fade!

To scan the channels you do not need to decrypt them and it does not follow that you can view them.

The data you see is transmitted as DVB SI (Digital Video Broadcasting Service Information), this is unencrypted and is used to describe the channels so the decoder can receive them and only then start decryption.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Video_Broadcasting

If you want do this yourself buy a PC Satellite card such as WinTV-DVB-s from Hauppage, see http://www.hauppauge.com/html/dvb_s.htm. You will be able to look at all the SI data you can eat, but able to watch nothing as these PC cards dont have any decryption at all.

The submarine advert was silly. They could have done more by explaining the advantage of Byond in terms of picture quality & features. What a waste.

yeah they shoud've capitalize on the better quality pikjers and sound system... the details of da pikjers.... instead of the submarine..

Wah... astro byond already released their commercial...
i really2 donno... in what channel they frequently show it?

Make sure they call u to confirm your order dont just wait the installer wont come !
I am in Johor.Applied on11-12-09, after      order confirmed on 17-12-09 and stiil awaiting installation ! As I have said Astro and TM take it or leave it, they always win !! They have 100 % govt. backing !
Another silly thing is HBO, why is HBO having the same movies on HBO SD and HBO HD ? So we pay for 2 same channels ! HBO should have some brains to show selected hits on HBO HD!
About NGC why do they  have NGC Rojak ? I think NGC Wild and NGC Adventure wld be fine.
Now the sound level ,why is it getting softer and softer ? From level 20 now i use level 35 for my hall viewing.!