You mean previously already having the black bars even b4 the pillar box thingy? Geeezz really din know about it...

why ESPN HD is too slow to get their programs running huh... its kinda annoying to watch that HD banner..

regarding the all astro related channel will be in HD by end on 2010... its quite ambitious... not impossible.. but I think most of the content will be in 4:3 ratio with a stylized pillarbox.. macam Astro Supersport HD la kadang2...

okey guys..
I have just watched the advertisement at 300am
New Astro channel
ASTRO ARENA LAUNCHING 26 MARCH 2010
CHANNEL 801

Its a channel where all the sports will be Malaysians involved
So they have new channel for football, badminton, squash and so on
I think cool la..at least we get to see Malaysians in sports more often

Another thing i read on Astro FB was like below..

Hi Tipi - Thank you for your feedback. We're working on introducing new HD channels including an Astro Branded channel, do stay tuned

Astro Branded HD channel? wow..

This post has been edited by dxjb: Mar 19 2010, 03:26 AM

There they go again ! As anticipated, they always like to hv their own channels to hv full control, they can repeat for a lifetime saving costs ,they never allow foreing channels they only allow channels which wld listen to them By the way they wld introduce a few channels soon to compete with TMIPTV whch takes off on 24th and Arena is part of it, competetion makes things better hope TM takes off nationwide without delay

This post has been edited by smileguy: Mar 19 2010, 06:19 AM

Arena is NOT an HD channel

here: http://designer.userbars.com/

When is DiscoveryHD coming to Astro?

Meanwhile - 3D TVs are being introduced in MY - will there be any showings of World Cup in 3D as planned for other cities?

i dun think so coz...i think oni few people can enjoy it if someone want to show it....not a good idea...

Astro-branded channel?

Astro on Demand HD.........

Already got 32" Toshiba 32CV500E, wondering If I should buy a 42" Full HD first or not
3D TV damn expensive ler.. Just saw the Samsung 3D LED TV at Best Denki KLCC, without wearing the spec, it looks like very great the quality.. but still, u need to wear spec to watch..

I am eyeing for the Toshiba Regza 42ZV600E coz got Resolution+ Feature which is good for Astro

arrived and on sell oledi ar?how abt the feed?BD oni rite for this time..

I hope so too... TM should reconsider and sell IPTV also to Streamyx 4MB subscribers as well. If DETV can work beautifully at 1MB/s, TM's should too. H264 and AAC makes it possible to squeeze D1 SDTV at good frame rate over 1MB/s. And at 4MB/s, one can transmit 1080i signal using H264 with basic stereo AAC audio.

I filed a request for that channel. CS told me never after pulling me on the line for two months, but now others say that the CS know nothing and was talking out of her ass. Irregardless, I'm fed up. I want to see Kari Byron in HD damnit!

Probably no. Unless the 3D image signal is encoded in the MPEG4 stream in Astro's feed and Astro relay the signal without altering it.

No need Full HD. Just make sure it can handle 1080i (which is part of HD-Ready spec) and have HDMI that is HDCP-compliant. Full HD means 1080p, which is not available over transmission anywhere (except maybe Japan) at the moment. So far over here Full HD is only output by BD player, PC, xBox360, PS3 and media player boxes and extenders.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Mar 19 2010, 10:48 AM

I hope that ARENA will be the first SD channels encoded with MPEG-4 and first SD channels that use full 16:9 broadcasting....
Just hoping and i sure that it will never happen here....

Oh, Really !!!! I always thought HD Ready meaning 720p only.

I have a Panasonic 42" Plasma TV with only HD Ready, not a Full HD, so, I thought I cannot set the settings to 1080i on the Astro Settings.

So, should I still set to 1080i or still stick back to 720p?

You can try setting to 1080i and see if it shows. By right most HD-Ready TVs should support 1080i.

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

Only very old HD TV sets (usually CRT or plasma) cannot show 1080i and are labelled as HD-Ready. This also dun have HDMI input.

As for whether you should stick to 720p or switch to 1080i, it depends on how 1080i looks on your TV (if it supports). Some TVs are lousy at handling interlaced images and the picture has blurring. Some may introduce delay with interlaced images because the TV tries to deinterlace the image. Try first, and if your TV displays blurring or delay and you decide that you cannot live with them, then switch back to 720p.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Mar 19 2010, 11:37 AM

Maybe IPTV is provided not with streamyx but with TM HSBB..

Which is the problem. My point is it's possible to use IPTV using streamyx, even over a 1MB/s connection, as DETV has shown. Only thing is TM dun want to make TM-IPTV available to Streamyx users. Their marketing people probably thought that by limiting TM-IPTV to HSBB they can force people to get HSBB in order to get TM-IPTV. If that's the case, they forgot about the rest of the country where TM will NOT roll out HSBB where there's also market for the channels they carry on TM-IPTV.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Mar 19 2010, 11:37 AM

Perhaps we can ask TM to explain why Detv can and why Tm cant ?

Huh... Wait like 10 years to have HSBB all over M'sia... then the technology already obselete and other countries use newer one and malaysia still left behind...

motogp in HD list or not ?

the date?check the channel programme la bro...