damn... tested with thumbdrives... doesnt work... it first checks the total disk space before continue doing anything else.... sigh... looks like im gonna get myself the WD hdd lol

to be honest, their SD channel in starhub is not much better than astro's... its still blurrish and blocky... that really surprised me considering its cable tv... bandwidth isnt their main concern, but they are still stingy with it lol

not trying to be a buzzkiller here, but some hd channels by directv are just an upscaled version of SD channels, its still blurry.. for example VH1 HD... was able to examine the original stream of that channel.... quite silly i would say... wasting bandwidth for nothing

This post has been edited by kaspersky-fan: Jun 4 2010, 12:39 AM

it wont be a problem if the hdd is using external power, right?

anyone notice espn hd quality has slightly reduced? i notice more pixellation when they are showing soccer...

LOLLLLLL damn those engineers... they must be stunned at that and accidentally pressed some wrong button...


my experience was when astro WLT showing commercial...suddenly it became the TVB Jade HK feed, showing some tvb drama that i know is now showing in hk...so im assuming it was the direct feed.... for about 1 minute.... then poof back to commercials

This post has been edited by kaspersky-fan: Jun 6 2010, 11:35 PM

yes its true

this is how the recording works... it records the raw encrypted stream... not the decrypted. So even if you are able to extract the file out to ure pc, its pointless, its encrypted and until you decrypt it, the file is not viewable.

When you play the video, it will decrypt it using some codes from the smart card. Hence when you unsubscribe a package (lets say sports), you can't view any sports recording anymore, because the smart card is updated with keys not including those channels you have unsubscribed (ok im not too sure how here works... but your smart card would not be able to decrypt sports recording anymore after you have unsubscribe sports). Hence, there won't be keys to decrypt the recorded sports clips.

The only time you can break this encryption is if you are able to break the NDS encryption directly. With this said, it is as good as breaking the encryption of the whole system astro is currently using. If you can break this encryption, you don't need PVR anymore. Get a DVB-S2 dual tuner, and you can do whatever crap with it, record endlessly and examine the feeds. Heck you can even record all channels put under the same frequency your tuner is tuning to. So lets say ESPN HD, HBO HD, HISTORY HD, NGC HD and ASSP HD all are under 12.345GHz freq, you are recording all of the content in that frequency. If you have 2 tuners, and each freq has 5 hd channels, at the end of the day, you can record 10 hd channels simultaneously lol.

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Added on June 6, 2010, 11:51 pmNoooooooooo, you can dispose off channel v if you are bringing in channel v hd !!!

Sigh, hope its not true... theres already not enough music video channels around!

This post has been edited by kaspersky-fan: Jun 6 2010, 11:51 PM

hitz.tv is full of shit probably due to heavy censoring...

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Added on June 7, 2010, 1:15 amlol... within the same page, i saw u wondering many things already ahahaha

i dont think byond is 3d capable

This post has been edited by kaspersky-fan: Jun 7 2010, 01:15 AM

the PQ is bad because astro blurs it and compressed it badly... if you have seen the original feed, its not bad, sharp... not this blurry

I dont understand how this could happen. perhaps the gold plated hdmi cable only increase the conductivity between the interfaces.... it wont increase PQ since its digital signals. Placebo effects perhaps... pls enlighten us!

well... perhaps you can censor it by blurring out the whole picture and silent the audio rather than cut off the whole scene lol.... will that eliminate the sync issue?

btw justin, any news on more HDDs support for byond recording? are you guys planning to stick with that WD 320 gb passport av only?

hrm... ure problem seems similar to copyright protection failed.... did u get that msg?

what i did was, i off the tv screen and then on it again... worked well

hmm.. i saw FX HD on broadcast asia... it was widescreen and very sharp... perhaps only selected shows in hd lol....

not really that great... the moment they play chinese mtv with some disco lights u see a lot of pixels... OUT!.. though their tvb dramas, lets say a lot of slow motion is alright.... =/

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Added on June 20, 2010, 6:36 pmi get you ... even astro's own channel, like WLT... it got blurrer and more pixels... obviously they have reduced the resolution and bitrate.... sucks!

This post has been edited by kaspersky-fan: Jun 20 2010, 06:36 PM

Hrm.. im not using LCD but a plasma tv, i'm not sure how is it between old decoder and byond decoders, but i've been using byond decoder now (not pvr). For picture settings, I'm not using the dynamic colour presets, just some economic dimmer type, with lower contrast. Infact by setting this way you should see less pixels than high contrast and brightness settings. I have been plugging in to my laptop to play hd videos, i have some clips which is stagnant around 8 Mbps with similar disco scenes... but I dont see such obvious pixellation like the one occured in ch 310... meh. But it is good enough to watch tvb dramas, can see the faces so clearly lol although you would also notice some background would be a lil more fake ahahaha

WAT? WLT better? PQ quality for WLT has reduced tremendously ... I'm not sure if you guys noticed it... but its really really bad for WLT... Blurrer + more pixellation ....

Nope... before the additions of world cup channels, it was sharper and less pixellation... now, its like watching 384x576 at 1.8Mbps [previously WLT was 720 x576]

hey there fuad, i'm not too convinced about that. i took a good look on the HD logo and i can see that pixellation would also occur on that logo with motion... since i'm quite confident that the HD logo is not generated by the box, unlike the press red button and text, it is not affected by pixellation during motion packed scenes.

As for the mcdonalds, perhaps you were watching the SD version? Or it was not a live match? The white square box appears on commercial sets installed for public viewing, if you visit pubs/gyms/mamaks and places that shows astro channels, they should be with the white box logo since they subscribe to commercial fees (if im not mistaken could be more exp compared to our residential fees), if they have those small codes running, then they are subscribing with residential fees lol.

not quite true... because this ESPN HD is playout by astro themselves... i still remember they played their own astro byond advertisement, with the ESPN HD logo in it.... so i'm quite sure that they are the ones controlling the channel/playout from astro's site... perhaps they have really forgotten to remove that LIVE word lol

wooo, nice one, u subscribing to mio tv and its hd services or starhub? lol... they r migrating espn to mio soon, ahahah