It should be available in SD as well. If not, those without Byond will make noise and make complain again.

With repeated contents all year long I dont think recording feature really matters 

Yeah !!! You are RIGHT !!!

Sports Package is suppose to let us see, watch and enjoy the SPORT GAMES and not always listening to the NEWS!!!

I am not sure how ESPNEWS programs are but hopefully not just news and news and news all the time.

On ESPN, we have already got ESPN SportsCenter Asia and also SportsCenter Malaysia plus StarSports news also. At the end, all the news contents are the same at all.

One of us got a call this morning from Astro asking whether we wanted to upgrade to the new Astro B.yond Personal Video Recorder.

This wasn't some crank call as we've definitely got the invite for the upcoming launch of the product on June 1.

What's puzzling is that at the original launch of Astro B.yond HD service, Astro execs stated that the regular B.yond set-top box could actually be upgraded via firmware and, with the addition of an external USB hard disk, be turned into a personal video recorder as well.

So with the launch of the PVR, we're wondering whether this feature will still be enabled in the regular Astro B.yond box. More details on this as we await an official response.

I'm pretty sure that Astro actually wanna make 2 version of HD decoder....
Just like older SD version, one is normal version, other one are equipped with PVR functions (astro max)....
so, now like this, Byond is normal version and the other one which schedule to be launch this 1st June, the PVR version (probably the name will be Byond Max)...
Yes, it's pretty confusing now.....    Because before this, Astro promise that they will make Byond to functions just like PVR..
but now, already "lain"....