I dun liek football..me wan Discovery HD..haizzz...

well, it's time for astro to change SD encoder to h.264... according to wiki, 1.5mbps is enough to archive satellite TV quality,,, maybe to change in encoder needs to recall all SD decoders... i don't know if recall all the decoders is cheaper that launching a new satellite...

I'm not optimistic as well....but if they are able to convert some of the hot channels like Wah Lai Toi(311), AXN(701), Astro AEC(301) by the end of the year, then I'm more than satisfied

Yes we were supposed to be more advanced then Indonesia we went to indonesia tried to be smart to controll live telecast of all football matches we were sent off !!!!We using Ku band is Politics and business nothing else.Who cares u cannot get signal when it rains just wait for rain to stop ! This is Malaysia,I wonder what the courts wld say if we took it up against the provider 

To answer this correctly you need some industry perspective. Astro did not choose Ku Band, it was the license awarded to Astro by the Malaysian Government that dictated the use of Ku Band. The alternative is Ka band which has significantly worse rainfade. C-Band, although it has better rain fade resistance was not proposed by the government as it is easy to use C-Band to receive content from outside Malaysia. Ku Band was not Astro's choice!

Geographical regions are put in to rainfall categories by the International Telecommunications Union, Malaysia is in Category H, the highest.

The impact of rainfall intensity and Ku Band is clearly understood and has many formula attached, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_fade.

If you google ITU-R and Rainfall you will see many papers published on this and Malaysia is almost always used as a key example. Click here to do the search, there are some good MSc papers written on this.

The new B.yond dish and LNB certainly improve on the old dish from four months ago but can never get rid of it.

From my measurements Astro seem to be using a far superior LNB compared to those in Europe. In Europe a basic LNB costs as little as 30RM but wouldn't last a day here! The Astro LNB appears to be a low noise high gain version which can cost up to 50USD.

It is all too easy to "blame them" without understanding the science or industry. By all means keep on highlighting rainfade, if it wasn't for complaints I am sure Astro would give us a cheaper dish and LNB but don't blame them!

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Added on February 13, 2010, 4:50 pm

Sorry, with my family in Ipoh!

Try this, power off TV and B.yond at the wall switch and leave for 10 minutes.

Pull Astro smart card out and push back in firmly

Power on TV and set to the correct input for B.yond (HDMI)

Power on B.yond box

If you get a picture let the box sit on the channel for 10 minutes to get all the SI, PSI and CA information.

Hope!

Good luck!

yeah i experienced b4 .. byond decodor soo sensitive ... pls make sure your power cable is tight .. you need to pwer off ur dec and wait until 2-3 minutes .. then plug it back ... sure OK.

1 think byond decoder is more hot then an old decoder ... soo panas ... afraid it could BUM one day ...

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Added on February 16, 2010, 9:54 am

TallJustin: thx a lot .. i managed to control the volume ... its work ...

then how about "radio" button ...? press and nothing come out ..

coz rtm is going hd and got the facilities la i think...thats why the picture is better...

anybody boleh post gambar connection dari byond ke home teather set?mcmana rupa coaxial cable tu?

Mind asking if B.yond decoder support which version of HDMI?

i also using back my own cable to ground floor link to the top level 3 hehehe .. also no problem with the b.yond.. the dish is put on the top level 3 heheh cable more long that cable they free.. hehehe
btw, i don think the cable they give as free can use on other purpose ?

normally how long do you guys need to wait for the installer to come once it is confirmed by the telemarketer?

owhh thanks for the heads up..if that so, what about the picture quality when ure using normal box and beyond box? is there any difference when u watch non HD channel?

OMG, I thought many reviews say that SD channels have improved on the b.yond? Currently only a few channels in HD, SD is still dominant.... if that the case I think I'll need to think twice about it....

Yes.., For us as user, we can't do anything to improve the PQ for SD Channels... because they, Astro who are responsible for transmitted it.. if the sources are bad, and we as user will get the "bad" PQ...  What Astro can do now to improve the PQ for SD channels is maybe first changing their system for all DVD-S2 and use MPEG4 encoding like HD channels, and use 576p instead of 576i that astro currently used now... use progressive scan that is surely are far more better than interlaced scan picture...

But if they do like that, for surely, only those who are using astro byond can receive it, and all astro current normal SD dcoder, will become absolute...
or maybe newer version of SD decoder that is black colour one, can reeive it since it has Component Output... ONly component and HDMI can accept progressive scan

It's DVB-S2

If my B.yond signal lower than 220, does HD channel PQ decreased? Coz i think that my problem for now...

Just now at KLCC got the B.Yond Showcase, looks intresting.. They show the foorball in HD on a big screen. Got comparison side by side HD and normal Astro.

http://designer.userbars.com/

use this logo, import at 100px width http://images.lowyat.net/astro/astro-byond-logo.jpg, and voila!



'course, now you can make your own

composite 480i, component 1080p.