Called Astro. Informed there will be a roadshow at MidValley tomorrow for the recording function and PVR decoder.

Astro Byond PVR roadshow
North Court,
Ground Floor
1-6 Jun 2010
Mid Valley Megamall, Kuala Lumpur

This post has been edited by dannychen: May 31 2010, 12:08 PM

just called astro...ext hdd cost rm299... can record up to 100 hrs...

to get astro byond pvr have to buy seperatley..but with astro max exchange only....with byond pvr..

Correct me if I'm wrong, I thought Linux-base should be able to support NTFS?
But Windows-base may have problem accessing EXT? Or require 3rd party software?

Hope TJ & team will seriously consider NTFS support

Good to hear. I'll be visiting and asking tons of questions. Hopefully the sales people would know all the details.

This doesn't sound too good. Hopefully tomorrow I can clarify; but then again generally sales people are notoriously forgetful or misinformed.

Hopefully Astro keeps track of their Astro Max subscribers so that they can get B.yond PVR for free, especially for those who had to "surrender" their Astro Max when they installed their B.yond.

If Astro transmits HD at 8Mbps H264 and using 384kpbs Dolby Digital, using a 16GB flash drive you can record 252 minutes of HD, equal to The Lord Of The Rings Extended Edition.


fuad

Are u sure??
So, for those who interested to buy that external HDD or probably buy the new PVR, can make the reservation now??

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Added on May 31, 2010, 1:13 pmWhoa! That's good!
but unfortunately, we need to buy external HDD from Astro....

This post has been edited by AjkR06: May 31 2010, 01:14 PM

Going to wait next news update or wait tomorrow, atleast.

This post has been edited by Qash-M: May 31 2010, 01:51 PM

I wonder if there wld be additional fees imposed for using recording facility. I surrendered my Max hope they give me a replacement to make me happy As Bro. Tall justin mentioned if we use the PVR beyond dual connection is needed then there wld be another installation right ? Another RM100 installation or waived agaian !

This post has been edited by smileguy: May 31 2010, 02:00 PM

You know I download 8 min worth of transport stream HD content and it's 1GB already. I guess Astro will be halved since it's half the bitrate and is compressed unlike Mpeg2.

I download korean contents by the way.
From what I can see, B.Yond's sharpness is below adequate but wins in terms of pixelations.

This post has been edited by Chyan: May 31 2010, 02:45 PM

Must we buy the external HDD from Astro? We cannot use our own external HDD?

comeon man.

we guys here are tech savvy rite?

go to MV and see wat model is the HDD in the PVR Road Show, then go LYP to buy

after firmware update, we can plug in thumb drive and see what happen

Thinking to get EX hdd. western digital my passport essential 320gb RM240. Should i buy?

better you wait until official announcement from Astro tomorrow....

when will the upgrade take place ?

Hold your horses dont rush bro wait until tommorrow,anyway why 320 go for 1TB straight

Orite.

Scare 1tb usb port not enough power

This post has been edited by danielcps: May 31 2010, 03:11 PM

firmware update?any new update?when?haha?

i think they can give consolation to us here for promoting them..hehe....

we need to pay extra rm299 for the pvr decoder is it? n monthly extra rm10 rite?