Measat sued for RM1.3bil over B.yond box
By NURBAITI HAMDAN and ONG HAN SEAN


KUALA LUMPUR: A local TV support equipment supplier, AV Asia Sdn Bhd, has sued Measat Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd and another company for a staggering RM1.3bil over an alleged breach of "mutual non-disclosure agreement" over AV Asia’s rain-fade technology to reduce satellite signal disruption during rainy weather.

AV Asia claimed that its confidential information was used by the first defendant in the suit, Measat, to launch the Astro B.yond high definition (HD) product.

The suit was filed through the firm of Messrs Watson Peters & Mohd Fuad at the High Court registry in Jalan Duta here on Tuesday.

So, what are the goodness on our side?

Guys, did u leave ur astro byond in stanby mode or off the power.
Each time off the power it will boot next time when on back. Quite long also have to wait. Last time the old Astro dun have this boot time woh.

standby mode.


last time old Astro not the same as byond

I canceled my old account last time to get another set of decoder so that I can watch Astro at different location (daytime in living room and maybe night time in my room) by inserting the smart card to another decoder.

Now I planned to apply a new account and cancel the old one (should be no more contract because it was like 3 years ago), so that I can watch Astro at 3 different rooms, but with only one smart card.

So currently the decoder and smart card can't be share with another decoder/smart card? That's bad...


Or maybe I should downgrade my current Astro package and split them into 2 accounts, at least paying for the same price?

Any idea anyone?

If u can take them to Court and u suceed then the gates wld be open for customers to sue, but............ but I feel sorry for th Plaintiffs ! They were never sued in the 15 years they enjoyed immunity if only they can be sued and our Courts decide without influence like wat happened to Singtel we can definately sue for rain fade .

This post has been edited by smileguy: Sep 28 2010, 03:23 PM

why sue, we still have rain-fade problem, whatever the technology, it doesn't work

astro should just gives us 1m dish, this will really tackle rain-fade without using any exotic technology

vietnam DTH operator I think is using 1m offset ku-band dish

This post has been edited by neb: Sep 28 2010, 03:38 PM

i leave it on standby but i noticed that the hard disk always on (spinning) even I'm not doing any recording, will it spoilt??

This post has been edited by andytan18: Sep 28 2010, 03:49 PM

thanks bro. my current dish and cable are quite old alreay (> 10 years) and it is goold if they replace everything.

Yes bro neb, you are spot on. That's why when I first read the charges I was confused - Astro stealing raid-fade technology from these guys and installed in B-yond box .... well all beyonders know Byond box suffers from raid-fade .... haha... what a joke.

Hmm but i notice that standby mode emit heat leh.. Seems warm when touch..
I normally leave it in standby mode at morning and off at night b4 i sleep.

AV Asia also alleged that Measat withheld information from its Astro B.yond customers - who bought a new decoder and a new satellite dish for a monthly payment of RM20 to receive HD programmes - that they did not need to install the new dish to receive the programmes "


This is interesting !

B.yond dish is 65cm. More 5cm than 1m.

100 centimeters = 1 meter lah.

I wish for a Taiwanese HD channel

so if av asia win the case, we don't have to pay astro RM20/month anymore?

if that is true, is is actually a good news for astro subscribers, more saving on subscription fee

This post has been edited by neb: Sep 28 2010, 06:19 PM

I know. It doesn't suck to have BIG dish, right?

not all dishes are alike, offset one piece dish(astr uses these dishes) is more efficient than prime focus multi-segment dish

This post has been edited by neb: Sep 28 2010, 06:35 PM

B.yond decoder, if configure correctly can watch other country channel too ?

if someone successfully hacked it, byond box may be used to receive other satellites transmmission

in current byond state, it can't be configured to receive other satellites, only measat 3 and 3A