someone mention my name?
What have I done? I didn't do it I swear!

Of course there is porn TV. I use to build the playout schedule of one in Australia. It's actually quite boring after awhile.

I don't see it happening in Malaysia until MCMC changes it tune, & I don't see that happening any time soon & I don't think that is a bad thing either.

This post has been edited by TallJustin: Apr 6 2010, 12:01 AM

Seriously, did you read the entire quote?
BTW wikipedia is not a "source". Everything inwikipedia is meant to be backed up with a citation that has a link. THis quote has none.

here it is



Someone is confussing News Corp and Astro and the fact that it says "astro is rumoured to..." goes against wikipedia guidelines of entry. So thank you Qash-M for pointing it out. I've deleted the entire "Future" entry off that page.

Qash-M you starting another rumour?

I take it from that comment that you don't even have b.yond?

no one reads manuals any more do they?
Volume control

try adjusting the levels of you surround sound system to adjust the level difference between SD and HD

Be careful, you're turning into a wiki engineer.

The Cliff effect only refers to how all digital signal is either on or off (Rain fade for example) rather then analog which fades out.

Audio sync issues on 5.1 are totally due to your system set up and its processing time, that is why there is a control to compensate it.

This post has been edited by TallJustin: Apr 9 2010, 07:35 PM

yeah it's SD

there is controls for the SD video out put.

aspect ratio controls

there was a zoom option but it was replaced with the fit to screen. I think we will bring back the zoom option in the future as a 3rd option but currently the box only can do 2 settings. Therefore use your TV to zoom if you can or watch it in Pillar box, this is how it is meant to be seen.

I work for them.

read the B.yond v.3 tread and talk to all the others on here about the zoom feature. I was probably the only one that used it, so they took it away.

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Added on April 11, 2010, 12:16 amwhat was solved? you cooled it down but you never had a problem.

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Added on April 11, 2010, 12:17 amI don't cool mine down, it's fine.

This post has been edited by TallJustin: Apr 11 2010, 12:33 AM

yeah they can get warm but if it was over heating it wouldn't work

The zoom feature is really meant for watching 4:3 letter boxed programmes on a 16:9 screen,you get full frame picture and correct aspect ratio.

use it on a full frame SD channel and it will cut the top and bottom off the picture.

Anyway new plasma's have better burn in prevention technology. I wouldn't worry about it, just watch it in pillar box.

it's not a channel thing it's a show by show thing hence why make it switchable from the remote rather then set as default.

This post has been edited by TallJustin: Apr 11 2010, 10:36 PM

Sorry guys been really busy & it ain't stopping, on top of work my wife is going to deliver our first born tomorrow (induced)

So to quickly answer you.

Get the installed to check first hand. Don't use concealled. You don't know if it's spilt or broken or damaged.

Give me a few weeks to settle things down & I'll return to being a regular on here & updating my blog
cheers

The firmware is still in testing and not released yet.

We had a girl and she's great, surprised you mentioned it actually.

I'm testing the system now but I can't clarify a lot of things until astro makes a press release about it. Where I can I will answer questions. Yes it is just a firmware update to get the service.


HDCP over HDMI prevents the recording of HD quality but if you use composite cables there are lots of devices out there that can record but it's only recording SD quality. I'm using a Pinnacle Hybrid TV Tuner with EyeTV software.

thanks mate,

this is a Mac option. Lots more PC versions

We couldn't agree with you more. In fact we are concerned about it and you will see massive changes to the site and the EPG very soon. In fact I'm personally working on improving the EPG.

So this week you will be getting news of some big changes and I'll give you a little heads up.

PVR is coming. there are 2 types of PVR. The PVR will allow recording of full quality broadcast so if you are recording HD you get HD playback.

1) Will be for existing b.yond decoder where you plug in a HDD into the back of the system. I've been testing this for a while now and it's a little gem.

THe HDD must be a drive that meets our power consumtion white paper for the decoder and at the moment the only one that I'm aware of that does this is a WD HDD (I'm using a WD My Passport AV). Others suck up too much power and they will will not work. THe recording quality is broadcast quality, so HD is played back in HD.

2) is the a new decoder with in built PVR. it's got 2 tuners so allows recording of 2 simulateous shows and if I've got this rigth playback of a 3rd all at the same time. Personally I've not tested this box.
It will require a special dual LNB that naturally have 2 cables coming to the box to feed the two tuners.

The PVR features aren't just about recording I find that the pause live broadcast feature is awesome. My phone rings, my baby craps her nappy or what ever I just hit pause and deal with it and then come back and hit play to take off from where I left.

Another little secret I discovered is that not only can you pause but rewind to watch that goal again and lets say you've been watching a programme from the start and you really get it into it and want to watch it again then just hit record. If you haven't changed channel during the broadcast of the show the HDD will automatically go back and keep the recording of the entire show for you.

The major thing you will find is that you watch TV differently. No longer do you just turn the box on and watch, now you turn the box on and sellect what you want to watch from the recording you have made. Kind of TiVo like.

To make this recording function better then the old astro max we are spending a lot of time improving the quality of the EPG. shortly you'll notice the start times of programmes will be far more accurate. As you know Malaysian law requires that we censor programmes & remove foregin commercials before they are broadcast and we do this in almost all our international channels live with a special delay system that holds the incoming video until it is edited and then it gets published. Problem with a PVR and this delay system is that you often would miss the end part of a show as it ran over the EPG scheduled time. We will be tweaking our EPG to compensate for this.

This is going to be a busy week for Astro and I hpoe you like what is coming.

Sorry I've been MIA on here, working on the data behind the EPG and my new baby girl click HERE (isn't she cute!) has meant that I've been too busy to drop by. Got any questions drop then on my blog. I reply to everyone and I do not censor your comments.

Cheers all
Justin

It means the new built-in PVR decoder has 2 tuners and you can't split the cable from the standard LNB you get with normal B.yond (signal loss and reduced quality). So to get 2 signals into the new PVR B.yond it has to come direct from a dual LNB which has an output of 2 cables that run direct from the dish to the decoder. This only applies to the new decoder it has nothing to do with the current b.yond box which has one tuner hence one cable coming from a standard LNB.

This post has been edited by TallJustin: May 30 2010, 04:54 PM

Nah sorry I don't know the costing info.

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Added on May 30, 2010, 5:15 pmYes you can change and it will mean a new LNB, whether they change the dish I'm not sure? The dish is actually the same it is only the LNB that is different.

This post has been edited by TallJustin: May 30 2010, 05:15 PM