Already made my call to CS this morning, will be contacted by their technical person within 4 hours, I'll try my best to persuade them to reinstate the "stretch" feature in TV setting. Just put them back along with "Zoom" and "Pillar box", give us the freedom to choose.

I hate that now I have to change the zoom setting everytime when switching from HD to SD channel vice versa.

And dont tell me to live with large black box either side of my screen, better throw your large 16:9 tv and get that old crt if you want to do so.

i bought it mine from jusco for rm16+

but i felt dissapointed a bit la.. before byond, using component is good.. but using beyond decoder, half of the screen will got wavy lines la... aiyo...

use composite la.. ok punye...

Look at this reply :

CARE/008460/10
Dear Mr XYZ,

We refer to your e-mail with regard to Astro B.yond.

Thank you for highlighting your concern to us. Rest assured that we have conveyed your feedback to the department in charge for their attention and consideration.

We wish to take this opportunity to clarify that Astro B.yond has recently introduced the aspect ratio switch as part of a process change to enhance customers’ viewing experience on high definition television. Today, all flat panel/high definition televisions and HD content is transmitted on 16:9 aspect ratio which offers full screen viewing. On the other hand, SD channels are still broadcasted on 4:3 aspect ratio. This means that the standard definition channels images viewed on a flat panel television/high definition television will be pillar-boxed.  Some customers may stretch the 4:3 aspect ratio images to fill up the screen but this may distort the images. 

To ensure that customers have the best possible viewing experience of standard definition channels on High Definition TV and Astro B.yond, all images broadcasted will be in the correct native ratio for SD channels and HD channels respectively. We regret any inconvenience caused.

Should you have any other enquiries, kindly contact our Contact Centre at 1300-82-3838 which is operational from 8.00 am to 12.00 midnight daily or email to wecare@astro.com.my.

We appreciate the opportunity to be of service to you.

Yours sincerely,


Muhammad Jan Rawi
Associate
Correspondence and Operations
Customer Contact Centre

This is the reply Astro gave through their FB page. Looks like we have to make do with that stooooopid decision of theirs, at least for a while more.

astro gonna replace zoom option to SCREEN FIT option...yahoooooo

?? What ??