There is NOTHING extra you need to BUY.............BUT you need to have EXTRA to pay for the HD channels.

What's RF cable?The white colour coaxial cable?I hope they would be able to use the current one and no need to drill a hole through the wall to install new cables

Haha yea extra RM20/month

RF cable refers to cable from dish to decoder.
MOSTLY they'll use your current cable, so no worries.......

The one that runs through the wall right?

That's a relief to know

mine, the installer changed the cable from the dish to the decoder, bout 2 months ago..

Oh how old was ur cable?They needed to drill a hole through your wall then?It looks very messy man

i got a problem.

recently i just moved into my new home and get my renovation contractor to fix astro cable(normal ones used for the grey colored dish) which is conceal.

And now i wanted to subscribe to astro and according to astro installer, the new set of hardware which is the black colored dish uses a diff type of RF cable from the 1 used for the grey color dish..

i really dont want to hack the wall again n change to cabel and conceal it again.. zzz
my question is:

1) cabels for both normal astro and astro beyond is different?
2) cant use back the same cabel?
3) any other way to get the astro beyond without changing the cabel?

sigh ...

my question is:

1) cabels for both normal astro and astro beyond is different?
I can only say both can do the job well. Built-quality wise which is better, no idea.

2) cant use back the same cable?
.... Mostly no problem, as long as your decoder can detect sufficient signals, then it's OK.

3) any other way to get the astro beyond without changing the cable?
......Same as above

I also scare my RF cable will be like ur situation,must drill hole through wall,damn mafan

thnks!

i too hope it can be use for either 1 ....

Maybe different installer will do different things?

Last time when I subscribe to normal Astro,the first guy that came said need to drill hole through wall The 2nd guy that came more professional and got the job done fast,without needing to change any cables.

fixed DONE!.. no changing cable or drilling

Last time when installer installed my Byond, he said that actually normal astro dish cable are totally same quality and same material like byond dish cable...

yeah that was what he told me too.

thanx to lapaq..
my byond activated at last after a week of waiting!!!

You are most welkam. Thank Astro not me.

astro fiesta hd channel.. 110. looking forward...

how long will it take when i subscribe (normal astro customer) till they come and do the installation?

other then on9 subscribe hv any other option?

thx and sory for the lame question..

It HD or SD?

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Added on December 26, 2010, 8:12 pmOnly chinese and korean HD channel got subtitle.

This post has been edited by minimize: Dec 26 2010, 08:12 PM

Actually there's some minor difference where the new dish uses some 'patented' technology, which promises some rain fade protection, which resulted in Astro being sued, I can't find the link, but it's there.