We're so far already exactly that: M3 for SD and M3A for HD... why not stretch the game abit and use more than 2 for SD? We have 3 sats (4 if Measat hadn't sell/rent Measat-1 to Africa). So far only using 2.

Astro should move AOD back to Measat-2 so Measat-3 has more space. With the AOD channels freed up (that's 1-2 dozen channels), M3 can carry whole MTV, Star, HBO and Nat Geo ranges and still have wiggle room to spare.

Better yet, move AOD to IPTV. I notice that even latest SD decoder has Ethernet. Then have room for everything and you can claim that your AOD is true Video on Demand.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Mar 29 2010, 06:10 PM

Not either one, old smart card must be returned. It will be useless to keep it though, it won't work after your byond smart card activated.
Byond smart card will only work with your byond decoder only. So, when you go to your grandma house, bring byond decoder as well (don't forget power adapter as well). It'll work with old dish.

because both astro satellites are located at the same orbital position, just bring your byond box along, connect to any astro dish you could find and watch your subscribed packages this way

Is it possible to use the White and Red audio cables (not through the digital audio port) to connect the box to the AVR? My AVR doesn't have an HDMI port.

Yes, but only if you have the audio settings in the B.yond box set to output Stereo to the HDMI.

If you set the B.yond box to outpu Dolby Digital on the HDMI output, it turns off the analog (red/white) outputs.

This is maybe the two sattelite that astro use is close to each other.


Anyway, i think Discovery HD is comig. Eventhough maybe not in april, but maybe soon. Remember astro has sign the agreement with Discovery.

measat 3 and 3a are purposely put into the same orbit, this is by design, otherwise we would have ugly 2 headed dish

B.yond current decoder receive satellite signal from measat 3a. Is it possible for b.yond to receive other international satellite?

It's receiving signal from M3a and M3. A dish can receive signal from any satellite its the decoder that prevents you watching it.

M3 satellite location
M3a satellite location

What happen if my B.yond don't have signal on sunny daylight? Should i called the installer guy to adjust dish alignment?

Or, should i do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC5wu49VLRg

This post has been edited by Qash-M: Mar 29 2010, 09:50 PM

Call an installer because you wouldn't ask that question if you actually had that device now would you?

Oh and by the way the decoder works when its dark night too.

well.. if he want to commit to beyond, he has to give up the old card... if not, then keep the old card and dont subscribe to byond at all... either one..

The agreement is to pay Astro $$$ for using Measat-3A to relay Discovery HD and Discovery World HD to rest of Asia. Whether Astro has to carry the channel was never mentioned. And that stinks. I hope that Astro getting to carry the channels is part of the deal tho. Astro has the entire Discovery SD range so far. It would be a shame if the same is not true for the Discovery HD range. And it's bad enough that Singapore already has Discovery HD before Malaysia.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Mar 29 2010, 10:22 PM

On small rain it does to. I notice sometime maybe SD channel is quite fast to lose signal than HD channel on rainy day.

This post has been edited by Qash-M: Mar 29 2010, 10:30 PM

Maybe because Hd channels uses higher frequency?
Btw. What is the website that have satellite info with channel info in transponder. I kinda lost it in my memory...

lyngsat.com

Thanx alot. Sifu..

lyngsat doesn't have measat 3a ku band frequecy listing, anyone want to update the list?

Just about now, TV2 channel (102) has been switch to TV3. What happen?

Edit: Normal again.

This post has been edited by Qash-M: Mar 29 2010, 11:28 PM

I think this is special feature for byond box only that can automatically detect new channel, but has bad side effect as you described during channel detection, astro really need to fix this bug