ESPN HD ... finally?

http://www.marketing-interactive.com/news/17545

For better or for worse, we are gonna see Rooney's mug in more detail ... 

Im sorry if im off topic...im just a noob
My astro cant promp this msg on my scree tv"ur card is inactive,pls contact astro" when i try to reach them..i got 30 min on phone no one answer it...what i suppose to do??

Watching Arsenal being whacked by MU in the full glory of HD was even more frustrating. I switched off my TV when MU scored the 2nd goal No point watching in HD if Arsenal keeps on losing 

Looks like another trophyless season for Arsenal 

FINALLY!!!!
after a long 20 days (14 working days) of waiting..
after all the problems encountered..
after all the screw ups the previous installer did to my account..
after all the kind help given by astro cs assistant name miss latar
and all the hard work under the hot blazing the sun done by my astro installer mr chin here in jb
MY ASTRO BYOND IS INSTALLED!

need for 5.1 surround.

surprisingly audio using red & white cable sounds louder from hdmi cable.. weird cause HDMI supposingly carry lossless audio. Astro has to fix this.

hd channels within this region. hope astro will keep on adding these to make our money worth;

1. Discovery
2. Food Network
3. All Sport Network (ASN) astro channel 831
4. AXN
5. Nat Geo
6. Nati Geo Wild
7. History
8. HBO
9. Fashion TV
10. Luxe TV
11. Playhouse Disney
12. Sony Entertainment TV
13. ESPN
14. Star Sport
15. E! channel (astro 712)
16. Animax
17. KBS world (astro 303)

Philipines cable provider has the most HD channels ( total 11) beside Korea & Japan.

thanks for the feedback.
if you are referring to setting audio to 5.1 on the decorder and using hdmi direct to TV, only SD channel will have audio as TV can't decode.

however if it is connected to AV home theater, there is a significant varience between HD and SD audio cause of the 5.1 and 2 channel PCM.

What I'm referring to earlier was if there is no AV amp and connection is direct to TV using component & HDMI

i think most HBO movies are mixed properly in Dolby Digital studio to get the certified DD sound where there are 5 independent channel + 1 LFE channels, while other channel although in HD, are not mixed properly in DD - hence you get only virtual surround sound but not true 'DD' ...

a programme will only carry 'true; DD if there's a DD logo associated with it, normally u can see at the ending credit...i don't think stuff like the history hd or most sports have been mixed in DD...coz DD certification of any programme wud be quite expensive...

they should expand this for the home/personal user.... 

WOW!!!!
I have checked Astro's website..its True..its True..
Im in total shock right now..
How the heck last week [check previous pages (30-50)] we got news that there is no F1 in HD until 2011
Not in Malaysia only but the whole world will have to wait until 2011
It was reported that FIA (the racing governing body) still not prepared for HD
Now suddenly we get news F1 in HD on ESPN
I know initially before launching ESPN HD, Astro did say F1 will be in HD
So there are 3 scenarios now,
Either FIA are now suddenly prepared for F1 HD around the world or
Astro dont know there is no F1 HD  until next year and this is an error or
They will upscale the content of the normal SD feedAnyways..im hoping it is true that F1 will be in HD
NASCAR seems great in HD, F1 with Schumacher back and Lotus 1Malaysia also in should be a cracker!!!
Lets wait and see 

Nope, totally different. The decoder for Kampus Astro has built in hard disk for DVR capabilities. You can see it through the remote control.

Update: Yes, the box uses the same UI as the former Astro Max. Shots of the UI can be seen in the following PDF file.

Kampus Astro

Where did u guys saw the update ad? On HD channels?

I will be using component till they fix this! You can stretch in component. Will only switch to HDMI when watching HD. Stupid Astro. Long testing time for this update they don't realise the shortcomings? Even the subtitles are not visible!

zoom is stupid, we want our stretch back

you see the pillar box mode for Discovery channel. the 2nd line of subtitle is actually in the black area at the bottom instead of inside the picture

Call them, call them! Everybody, call them and rant!

can use IC number la

After update to 1.1s, pictures non HD very ugly!
Next thing,after satellite setting menu,everything stuck.

Change to HD last week...just now i got call from CS to get feedback on HD...then i complained to him about this zoom problem....he said will sort it out soon...then he offers me new HD channel (current package variety+movies+sports) and need to add RM4 monthly....the channel are natgeo,discovery and so on....i agreed since he said i can unsubscribe after 11 April without charge...he also said i will get all 7 HD channels....any beyonders got call like me?is it true 7 HD channels?