AstInst...u r installer right?

ANYONE of u guys can access astro site now, abt 8.45am, Wed?
the site seems "hanged"

thx

seems OK now

There is no such thing as a "good" or "ok" split or splitter!

Try setting your B.yond decoder to a HD channel and then try watching ANY channel on your old decoder. Your old decoder will simply have no signal!

The reason for this is situation is DiSEqC switching ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiSEqC ) that requires each Set Top Box to have its own dedicated feed. All major broadcasters in the world use DiSEqC to increase their capacity by switching between polarities, frequency bands and even satellite positions. Up until the launch of Astro B.yond all of Astro's broadcasts were single polarity and single frequency band, this totally removed the need for DiSEqC.

Now that Astro has HD and needs four times the capacity per channel they have had to use many new technologies including DiSEqC, MPEG4 and DVB-S2.

When your Astro B.yond box needs to tune to a high frequency signal on Measat 3a to receive HD it sends a 20Khz "tone" to the LNB, this switches a circuit in the LNB called the "Local Oscillator". At this point the LNB is only capable of receiving high frequency signals so any low frequency signals such as all the SD channels on Measat 3 are no longer there or "on the wire". The same is also true when switching between Horizontal and Vertical polarities, currently Astro only uses Vertical if ever they use Horizontal I am sure that a whole load of us will find new dish alignment problems.

Even if you only have SD Astro and not a B.yond Box then you should still not use splitters, each splitter halves the signal. Thus increasing rain fade significantly.

Astro have always supplied one dish with every box and that is what they expect to be installed, for every splitter installed the installer gets to keep a free dish to sell to someone else! All the Astro VIP's have one dish per box, no splitters and each dish is well aligned, so the VIPs get almost zero rain fade and that is what you could of had!

Thickness of or how bendy the cable is not an indication of quality, the quality of a cable for satellite is measured on its impact on the signal. A good cable is double screened, has a uniform capacitance along its length, a frequency response up to 2Khz and is protected by a coating that is 100% waterproof.

Try my test of trying of watching HD on B.yond and SD on your old box see what happens! As a professional in this industry for 20 years it shocks me that installers still do not understand DiSEqC and use splitters.

Splitters should only be used for one thing, throwing at the installer who tried to fit it!

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Added on February 10, 2010, 9:41 amNot quite! I work on the professional side of the industry but not for Astro.

This post has been edited by AstInst: Feb 10 2010, 09:45 AM

hi guys, i read from the thread that favourite feature can be used already, but i can only ADD by pressing the RED button, when i press the FAV button nothing come out, is it working? or i do not know how to use it. thanks.

astro decoder actually uses 22KHz switch inside LNB, never uses any DiSEqC switch

ya lah ... me too ... even radio button also still not functioning ... really hard to understand this byond

i think this 1st of generation of byond just for trial only ... thats why free until this April ... after this April there's no different i think almost of the day i need to call astro CS to complaint ..

Ah, yes... sorry momentarily got my DiSEqC tone and Audio Frequency Response Test tones confused!

The Astro B.yond LNB has a DiSEqC switching in the LNB for switching between Horizontal, Vertical, Low Band and High Band, this is in line with the DiSEqC 1.0 standard.

DirectTV in the USA uses DiSEqC 1.1 to switch between 3 (up to 4) orbital positions, they are one of the few in the world doing this. There is a good image and article at http://www.ehow.com/how_4778123_align-direct-tv-dish.html

The other DiSEqC standards are more aimed at the enthusiast with a motorized dish (in countries where they are legal).

Some of the early (Astro) LNB's had no DiSEqC switching and are positioned to Vertical only and receiving in the low band only.

hmm i tried watching HD and SD at the same time in 2 diff decoder ok wor....mine is 1 dish 1 byond decoder and 1 old decoder set up..rain oso can watch

This post has been edited by marky: Feb 10 2010, 01:28 PM

Why some particular people said cannot ?

donno .. wat it the problem ...

Why Astro supplying the dual LNB (65cm dish) for those with 2 decoders?

If the account has 1 Byond & 1 SD DMT, what would happened?

Astro no longer supplying 1 DISH to 1 DECODER, that's my experience.

I'm from KEDAH.

ok tried all the number code in the manual to synch my byond remote to my panasonic. found 2 code that can sych. but only work for the 'tv on/off" and the "av" button. No effect at all on the volume.

my model is L37G10. anyone has this same problem?

After you sync the remote, you need to Press “OK” and “vol +” until the remote blinks twice, then you can control your tv volume.

LNB with 2 connectors, I think this type of head houses 2 independent LNBs inside
I got this type of head one connected to HD decoder, another through splitter connected to astro max

This post has been edited by neb: Feb 10 2010, 02:42 PM

does the b.yond send out signal through HDMI and composite simultaneously?

yes why not

my setup includes both HDMI and composite RCA as RCA channels gives better audio

btw, is the soccer match between Arsenal vs Liverpool in HD??

I mean the composite video..not the audio
I plan to get the RF modulator to convert the composite video + L/R audio into the RF coaxial (that connected to my TV upstairs) so that I can view astro up there.
If the b.yond connected through HDMI to the AVR in living room, can I watch it upstairs via the b.yond's composite out (The yellow RCA) at the same time?

the volume button doesnt work if connect via HDMI cable .. doesnt work for whole life ... other than that OK kut ... some one on this forum told me that ....

but why if "fav" and "radio" button doesnt work ? ini yg pening nie ... i have tried almost 2 week still cannot ... 1 by 1 enter the code also not functioning for the button ...

ive call astro last week and told me to send Engineer to check ... until today no turn up ...

Can, I do it all the time.