He just want our money.

I just saw a screenshot of HBO (SD) from Singapore and it seems to be in 16:9 format. If that's the case, it shouldn't be too hard for Astro to broadcast channels in that format as they are available.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HBOSTY.jpg

Its not a great screenshot, but look how the HBO logo is more centred, so viewers with standard TVs will see it after the picture is cropped.

+1

H.264 is a better codec than MPEG-2. Japan does have more HD channel than Astro. You're wearing a blue shirt today and your neighbor is wearing a white t-shirt. One truth does not negate the other truth.

Using H.264 is a better way to increase Astro's HD channels when the company has limited transponders.

Japan have had HD since the 80s. They have OTA, satellite and cable in HD. Their entertainment infrastructure are in HD.

Back when Astro launched with the Philips decoder, one of the settings you could set was if your TV was widescreen or not. Astro could have done it the way Europe and Australia have done it. But they didn't because the majority of Malaysians didn't have widescreen CRTs/RPTVs. So using that feature would not only be useless to the subscribers who don't see the value of it, it would also cause more headaches for Astro when subscribers are asking why the channel info is chopped off. When implementing a feature, you have to make sure that the feature is something that people would see value of and it won't cost you money in terms of call center reports.

We will see.


Besides replacing the whole board? No.

Maybe that's in their financial plan for B.yond...


fuad

If i was not mistaken, Japan 80's HD use analog system.



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This post has been edited by Qash-M: May 20 2010, 01:19 AM

I wonder if Astro will come out decoder with 2 tuner for byond later, what it will look like. I guess we need to lay 2 cables to the dish & using LNB with 2 output.

It will look like a toaster.

Astro new update software?

Even now you can use it as a toaster, just place a slice of bread beneath it. Then, new decoder could be use as a 2 slice toaster.

Indeed. Analog or not, it is still a HD broadcast system. That was the standard NHK and others followed. Only later did they migrate to MPEG-2.

There were MUSE Laserdiscs players and discs produced during this era as well. Obviously it looked a lot better than LDs and DVDs at the time.

Can Japan migrate to H.264? Definitely. Private cable companies with their own STBs will have the ability to enact the change than OTA channels since the STBs are their own, just like how Dish Network and Astro are doing right now. Unlike the US which only went total MPEG-2 HD broadcast recently, Japan can migrate easily as they have mandatorily used MPEG-2 a lot longer.

That's why 15 years ago we saw DVD recorders from Japan first. Their media companies are not afraid of people recording content. This spurred consumer electronics companies to make DVD recorders.

Can Astro come out with a three-decoder B.yond Max box? Sure. So long as the pricing is right because there definitely is a demand for a lower-cost Astro recorder.


fuad

when will astro byond have promotion for 2nd decoder at 50% off. needed it for fifa world cup

This post has been edited by sunnyK: May 20 2010, 12:14 PM

You shd be glad they don't charging you extra for FIFA WC, want 50% some more ?!!

Astro year 2000 promo... Wow! That's totally expensive that time... RM799 for one set of Astro DMS... + RM100 some more for Installation....
But if i'm not mistaken, for just RM54.95, we can get all mini packages that they called as "World" package that time.... and other 2 super package like Dynasty and Movies...



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* Got it on NST archive, Jan 11 2000 *

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=x8G8...ntsec=frontpage

wow that is very expensive... damn....

Damm expensive for that time...

Want to know how many decoders can I connect to one astro byond dish?

Want to have seperate decoders in my living and room. Can ar?

heard that can connect 4 decoders to 1 astro byond dish...

I have seen LNB with 2 connectors, so this type can connect 2 byond boxes
haven't LNB with 4 connectors yet

er.. what is LNB?

so is there a 2 connector LNB standard with byond?

im using 1 byond decoder and 1 normal decoder on my byond dish

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