Yeah it was me who LAN'ed and SSHed. Bad news is that I turned off the decoder just now. Poof auto-update and poof its blocked. Argh , I guess Astro spies are reading this topic.

They have fixed the loophole
Take a picture of HD and SD , show it to your parents. Make them to understand what is HD and SD. Then they will know or ask them to go to showroom and see the quality comparison.

The problem with hacking ASTRO is that , its hard. You can hack , it will work till you shut it off and let it to get any new updates. Poof it gets updates automagically and updates/patches things/reverts to stock back. If you disable that , it pretty much renders the decoder useless !

i wonder why u quoted me for the replied,
i wrote clearly that i have b.yond at home d.

for some parent,
they will feel pay RM20 per month is wasting money,
have to persuade them with at least a good point to them.

From what I've gathered is that it uses Linux , Kernel 2.6 series and it uses ARM processor. So I am thinking its capable of playing mp3s , divx and i am not quite sure about mkvs yet. But its capable enough. If you think I am joking , open up your Installation Guide. Read the last few pages , you'll notice about GPL License and OpenSSH !

Another thing to note that its open-source but astro has to open up for us to experiment with it

By the way , I'll be requesting the source code for the OS . Currently they dont have it @ their site , so yeah ( http://www.pace.com/opensource/form/requestCode.asp ). Hopefully they can share the source code with me and lets see what I can do about it !

Argh , HD shows are being repeated or they are just being crap. After 1 day , its back to square , but its just that the quality is superb

You can't compare with BluRay ,  but again it pretty much looks like upscaled DVD source. Thats how I would describe it

For those of you who don't have 120Hz TrueMotion or what-so-ever, switch the source to 720p. I've noticed that for sports channel it seems to be better.