allow me to rant a little bit...

last week on Friday, receive a notice from the management of my apartment, they handing out 'Pre-Registration Forms' for Astro HD.

since my apartment using centralized dish, till today still haven't got B.yond as yet.

when i saw the header of the notice, i was really excited. but as i read on, its not exactly a 'pre-registration' at all. what is happening, i believe, is Astro trying to justify whether to upgrade the apartment's current SD satellite to B.yond enabled. they trying to find out how many residents in my area would actually wanna subs to B.yond before deciding whether to upgrade the satellite or not.

i feel its a big bunch of bulls..they never carried out a such survey for landed properties before launching them. they are a service provider, and they are obliged to provide the service to all Malaysians. The service should be provided regardless, then they sit back and wait for subs to call up & subscribe. they cant carry out a survey like this, and then make a calculations whether its worth providing the service.

i feel, probably not a 100% of the residents will respond to the 'form' and out of those who responded, if say the figure is less than what they expected, means i'm not gonna get B.yond enabled.

nonetheless, i will respond accordingly, cos i've been waiting patiently for it since it was launch. was hoping to catch the WC in HD...but seems no chance at all now...

would anyone here know, what the upgrade work will involved? how extensive it is to upgrade the current satellite & set-up top box for apartment/condo?

any apartment/condo (with centralized BMU) already enjoying B.yond?

hi guys,

i spoke to the management office at my apartment this morning, just wanna find out if how many ppl already replied the 'survey' for Astro B.yond.

i'm not sure if the recep girl know what she's talking about, but apparently, the 'survey' exercise was carried out by the building management itself, because they need to fork out around RM200k "to install new booster" to be b.yond ready.

i thought Astro are paying for the upgrade? or am i getting the wrong message? if the building management indeed is paying for the upgrade then it makes full sense why they wanna carry out a survey to see how many ppl would actually subscribe to it.

that did crossed my mind, but the thing is, the current Centralized dish was provided by management/developer..definitely not Astro. probably it is suppose to be a service to be provided by the developer/building management.

but i do believe, for upgrade like these, Astro would have chipped in a little bit