You bought it too early. We still don't know how PVR in byond will work & if there is any additional charge. It's still in testing stage, how about if the testing found a lot of bugs? You will be disappointed it will not come out by this month. Not to let you down, I just prepare for the worst
btw you can use your HDD for other purpose as well

Will the beyond box be able to record 2 channels simultaneously, or at least record 1 while you watch another?

If not its a real step down from the astro max STB.

Also, does anyone else get annoyed when you are reading the info on the EPG and it just disappears? How can you get the EPG to stay up?

unfortunately, byond will only allow u to record the channel that you're currently watching....
byond only have one tuner, but max have 2 tuners...

Hi All,
I'm new to this forum and need to share my problem on B'yond decoder. I have encountered on numerous occasion where the B'yond decoder shuts down automatically during usage.
Has anyone encounterd similar problem?
Thanks

Have just called astro to subscribe byond

Hopefully it can be installed within the ten working days as they claim, need it for world cup

You can set banner time. Default is 10s, not sure the maximum, will check it later.
Alternatively, you can press tv button. It will stay there until you exit

yes, it's my own mistakes . Bought that HDD too early. It was the promotion actually when yesterday, I accompany my friend to the computer shop, then I saw they are doing monthly promotion ( i think that's the stock clearance promotion).., 320GB Buffalo external HDD for just RM180.
so now, I'm just using that external HDD to backup all my files, movies, mp3 so on from my main HDD. But i really hope that I can use ot with Byond in future time...

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Added on May 19, 2010, 11:50 amyou make the early conclusion....

This post has been edited by AjkR06: May 19 2010, 11:50 AM

My conclusion for widescreen SD transmission is this: Astro will not do it until more than 60% of their subscribers have HDTVs. By which time, the same number would have already migrated to B.yond, or are forced to upgrade if Astro wants to migrate to H.264 codec for all of their transmissions.

Judging from the sale of VCDs which is still fairly significant, TV owners in Malaysia are mostly 4:3 CRT SDTVs. They don't see the value of DVDs - which most often has anamorphic video - so they also won't see the value of widescreen SD transmission. When they DO get a HDTV, THEN they'll demand for it.

But as I said earlier, by which time HD channels will be the default and SD channels are provided free or at minimal costs.

You're talking about the B.yond function with regards to SD channels. What we were talking about is widescreen SD transmission where the video is actually anamorphic video like what is on anamorphic DVDs.

You can still get the aspect ratio of SD channels correct using the aspect ratio function on B.yond. But you'd have to use your TV remote as well. First, enable the zoom function on B.yond; this will stretch the video. Second, use the Zoom function on your TV to squash it back to the correct aspect ratio; use a channel like Discovery, NGC or History to make the adjustments. BE MINDFUL that the non-anamorphic widescreen programs do not have the same aspect ratio. Some are correct 16:9 while others are more zoomed in; for example some of the programs on Star World like Mercy and Trauma.


fuad

This post has been edited by writesimply: May 19 2010, 12:22 PM

I always thought that Astro H.264 migration is more advance than Japan MPEG2 codecs, yet Japan have more HD channel.

Interesting.

Back in the UK, you set your STB to the screen format you have i.e. 4:3 or 16:9. The STB then either displays the channel in its native 16:9 format, or crops it (i.e. what Astro does) to the 4:3 format for normal TVs.

Surely this would be the best solution, as 4:3 SDTV owners would get to watch channels as they currenty are displayed, and 16:9 SD and HD owners would be able to watch the channels in their native format. Neither TV owner would then have a stretched picture or black bars on the screen

Food for thought.

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Added on May 19, 2010, 1:18 pmOh dear

I hope they release an STB that has 2 tuners in the future! (They'll probably charge for it).

This post has been edited by THEALB10N: May 19 2010, 01:18 PM

i think u should contact astro cs 4 ur case...

Actually, the default is 5 seconds and the maximum is 10 seconds..



This post has been edited by dxjb: May 19 2010, 03:25 PM

Wah, only away for 1 week+ and now grow another 20 pages, did I miss out something important or interesting
Any update on the Astro recording function ?

When I heard we lost Thomas cup straight 3-0 to China, quite sad la .... friends were telling me we have tons of supporters in stadium and our players did played to their best, but those China players are equally strong ....

Hmmm, just wonder how was the Thomas Astro Super Sport HD? Was told not that smooth, why ?

Now looking forward to the Worldcup, hope will be in town to enjoy

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Added on May 19, 2010, 3:43 pmActually I did ask similar question before about native 4:3 aspect being stretched into 16:9 format, apparently Astro does not have any option to allow us to set display 4:3 aspect format for those SD channels, neither does the Astro remote has the function to adjust it when switching between HD & SD channel.

Honestly, I personally don't like to watch 4:3 being stretched into 16:9, it become SSFF (Short-Short-Fat-Fat), so I have to use the TV remote to adjust aspect ratio display, this is something I personally find it troublesome la...

This post has been edited by klseet: May 19 2010, 03:45 PM

I also don't really like to watch 4:3 videos stretched into 16:9
When I watch TV, I always set SD channel to Pillarbox, but unfortunately the rest of my family did not like Pillarbox.
They keep said that "pillarbox" make the screen smaller. Yes, that's true since we're just using the 37" inch LCD. I don't really care about that since I don;t like to see the people become stretched and the actor on the TV will become short and fat. Thank God, that we can set the aspect ratio option by just pressing the button on the remote.
So, when I watching TV, I will set to pillarbox, and when my family watching TV, they will set to fit-to-screen. But default setting is fit-to-screen

This post has been edited by AjkR06: May 19 2010, 04:10 PM

This is crap. Eveybody go more and more advance everyday. But Astro make the other way round.

is there any other way that astro can adjust the software or something so that we can watch one channel and record another?
Instead of issuing a new decoder that has 2 tuners..
I mean is there no other way to replace the missing 2 tuners bit still have the same ability?

Either the person at astro who came up with the one tuner decoder now is DUMB or BRILLIANT as Astro could issue a decoder with 2 tuners at a cost..
My guess is the latter scenario..

once more time


still waiting.....

Astro should follow this step..

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Added on May 19, 2010, 7:45 pmI want this

This post has been edited by minimize: May 19 2010, 07:45 PM

hopefully ananda kristnan read our thread here

we want em all... but sadly we'll never get em all.. well at least not for another 10 years or so...

Recording function.... dun really care that much.. New HD channel is much more important... Hahaha...