Discovery HD perhaps? ...

Lol... you can't compare that way. Hongkong is using terrestrial broadcasting, unlike astro using satellite. Hence the bandwidth issue is even tighter for satellite broadcasters. If you want to compare with terrestrial broadcasting in malaysia, rtm did quite a good job too, around 14Mbps in h264 for olympics beijing 2008... just that the audio was the sucky mpeg layer 2 audio lol not dd.

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Added on May 9, 2010, 2:29 pmwow mind sharing us how did you record that stream? ... hrm so hbo is only 1280x720p ? :/ thought it was 1920x1080i


edit: ok... i found out from the previous threads.... 199usd for hdfury2... and another xxx usd for hd-pvr... but ure not recording the original bits...just the resampling of video... =/

This post has been edited by kaspersky-fan: May 9 2010, 02:46 PM

hrm, he should try recording 1080i lol.... since hd-pvr supports up to 1080i... would like to see how good will it be =D

its an expensive combination, 199 for hdfury2, 200++ for hd-pvr.... around 400++ (usd) for all....


can't afford it =/ ... will be patiently waiting for astro's recording firmware update ...

oh yeah, i love downloading them, then i get to analyze the quality... since its not resampled... but i dont dl dramas ahahahaha, i only go for music videos, smaller size but shorter length.... its okay, i love music videos a lot lol

when it comes to mpeg-2... can't expect much...18Mbps imho is not enough for fast scenes.... ever tried getting 40Mbps mpeg-2 720p live recordings? you'll melt! =D

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Added on May 9, 2010, 3:23 pmno.. u dont need to, astro's quality is not worth resampling again (for sd channels....)

i used to record from them, but i've stopped...ever since their quality has decreased tremendously (even audio streams they dont spare lol)

This post has been edited by kaspersky-fan: May 9 2010, 03:23 PM

lol.. wait lor... and if u cant wait, then wait patiently lor =p ... im still good because there is no mtv hd channel yet.... and hbo is censored as they like lol

well... my personal experience is, during early wee hours around 2-am to 5am, thats when censoring is the most minimal lol... seen a few repeated movies at diff time... almost flawless for wee hours timing, those during the day and prime time... its a big nono... perhaps due to family timing

due to the electrical frequency of our system and also eu. 50Hz electrical signal, so thats why its 25i => 50fps

oh well all the movies in hbo hd here are 4% faster in speed (due to 24fps conversion to 25fps lol...it does matters a lil to me, its especially higher pitched audio)

If you are asking why not 24fps, it is as good as asking why not catering some channels in 25fps, 29.97fps and 24fps.... imagine everytime u change channel to diff fps... the decoder will need to change fps mode signal to the tv... and the tv keep changing its display mode... it might be possible but annoying at the same time? the tv would go blank everytime i change to diff fps lol.... just as good as asking for pal+ntsc in one dvd, its possible... but rare..unless u force edit ureself.

i feel that the broadcaster just wanted to stick to one standard to avoid the problem above. It would be nice if they can do that, but... since it involves many diff things from the standards to many consumer's different tv... it gets complicated lol.

but it is different for YouTube =D. You see many diff fps possible (if u ever download them and analyze one by one), because of the computer progressive display.

ahh i see, now that makes sense when i plug my laptop to my plasma at 60hz and every kind of fps plays fine lol...

wow are u sure? if it is... its really a great addition, watching series in hd is among the highlight =D

did anyone realize that the hbo hd channel logo suddenly appeared much bigger? ... it really annoyed the hell out of me....so disturbing to have such big logo when watching a movie =___=

har?? I only watched few days ago and it was much smaller =___=

i just realize the tvb classic channel... suddenly appear out of no where lol

excellent???? i'd say its just marginally good... i mean if the camera keep staying still its good, when it moves and zooms... pixellation occurs... not that great imho... =X

=o really??? that is great news!!!!

This post has been edited by kaspersky-fan: May 22 2010, 11:27 PM

yea it records everything one go... basically the idea is like ure downloading a .mkv/.ts file, where depending on the .mkv or .ts file having multiple audios or multiple subtitles, but of course you are downloading at a much higher bitrate being allocated to that channel... imagine 8Mbps hd channel... you are downloading and saving to ure hdd with that speed, ahahaha its freaking fast indeed =D

heck if you have a proper setup, u can record the whole frequency block the tuner is tuning to... so the file you get might have 5 video tracks with 5 audio tracks lol... it can be done with rtm digital, recording all the channels at one go for a specific frequency that is being tuned to, fun stuff indeed =D

im sure u can, but it depends on the writing speed of ure thumbdrive, reading might be fast, the writing speed to the thumbdrive might be slow ... so u need to check it out

again about the hd channel, im not sure... but i guess it should be fine.... back in 2008, i recorded beijing 2008 olympics using a usb tuner (2.0), it was broadcasted at around 14Mbps, of course record to my desktops pc... no prob at all... i'll need to test it up with my thumbdrive =p... but lets hope good news

haha, i guess so... perhaps i was spoiled by beijing olympics quality, at 14Mbps... instead of 8Mbps.. i think they were online encoding too, most were broadcasted live =D

heard someone said it is 1920x1080i...maybe there will be a time when they reduce the resolution...

when directv started hdtv, they were broadcasting in mpeg-2, 1920x1080i at around 18-20Mbps...then they changed to h264, 1920x1080i at around 8+ Mbps.. now, its 1440x1080i around 5-6Mbps =/ ... im not surprised if astro does that soon... since their ultimate goal is to squeeze more channels in one transponder and generate more moolah


yup, 1440/1080 = 4/3 = 1.333 lol...


same here, they are 1440x1080, and with the aspect ratio field set to 16:9, the player will automatically stretch them to widescreen

This post has been edited by kaspersky-fan: May 23 2010, 08:22 PM