you got 3DTV already ?

I can understand your predicament. However, do remember that when Astro first started it was also an in-house presentation and matches were shown live almost to the seconds. When ESPN took over, matches were delayed for at least 3-5 minutes due to the censoring of certain advertisements by Astro. So, I suppose by taking over again, Astro is able to take control again which they were not able to with ESPN.

OK, the core of your argument is about the in-house team of presenters. I can understand that also and feels ESPN is way better. I really hope Astro would be able to engage good pundits but it seems we may be stuck with the pundits features during the just concluded World Cup. Cottee and Sharpie are OK but Abbas and the rest are craps. Serbie, who was not featured at all during the WC, has his critics but his comments and knowledge of the game is way ahead of some, if I may say so. Still, it doesn't matter much as long as we are able to watch the games live although we might not get the commentary feed from Sky Sports which means no Andy Gray. What we could get is the alternative commentary feed from UK. As long as the "heavy breather" commentator is not featured then it's OK.

SINGAPORE NEWS

SingNet fined S$50,000 for Mio TV outage
Posted: 21 July 2010 1748 hrs 
 
SINGAPORE: SingNet has been fined S$50,000 for its Mio TV outage that occurred at around 6am to about 6pm on 1 March due to a software glitch.

As a Nationwide Subscription Television Service Licensee, SingNet is required to comply with licence conditions on Quality of Service (QoS) and Consumer Service, said the Media Development Authority (MDA).

This means that it has to provide pay TV services at a reasonable quality that meets public expectations and is satisfactory to MDA.

In addition, SingNet is also required to operate an efficient consumer service and provide avenues for speedy resolution of consumers' complaints on its service.

MDA said it had found evidence of SingNet breaching its licence conditions on QoS and Consumer Service when its Mio TV service broke down on 1 March.

MDA's investigations showed that SingNet took efforts to correct the software
malfunction and resume service.

However the outage affected more than 10,000 subscribers, which MDA said "is not insignificant and caused a lot of inconveniences".

MDA added that SingNet could also have provided better consumer support and resolved consumer complaints in a timely manner.

"SingNet's call handling was evidently lacking when consumers complained that they could not get through to their call centre for hours, and even on the day after the breakdown," said MDA.

- CNA/ir

Source: here