really?? sd channel even worst on byond? i thought its better because it uses hdmi . the tm iptv sd channels look way way way better than the normal astro

Are sure about this new B.Yond? Can show us the link? Because whenever the SD decoder broke, we have to pay for repair ourself.

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Added on December 23, 2010, 7:12 am

Yap. Totally agree. I saw a shop with B.Yond on a 29"(?) LCD. But my SD Astro on my old Sony CRT picture quality is far far better.

SD on a HDTV depends on the quality of the scalar. To tell u the truth, on a 34in CRT, if u really pay attention u can actually see the amount of compression on the SD channels. So on a bigger display it will be more apparent. Some good HDTVs have good scalars, the picture is actually pretty good.

In my own opinion, the Beyond box seems to put out better SD than the older Philips box that I had. cannot attribute it solely to HDMI so I'm unsure. I have not however. tried the component out to my display or my Reon equipped AVR to see if it is better on component, since its easier for me to use HDMI. Also, with the bitrates at 8mbs for the hd channels, I hardly consider that as anything deemed as critical viewing material. But u're right, SD processing is still mostly done in the display rather than the box. Remember that the box is intended as a sat box and not necessarily as a upscaler. As long as the box is doing the colour space conversion correctly its more than a bonus. This is one area that the current Pace box is good. It outputs in YCbCr 4:4:4 8bit compared to some boxes (even in the states) that output in RGB pc levels....So in my opinion, its a good box.

Don't confuse marketing with technical data. That's just how marketing goes.

Please refer to item 7 of the url http://www.astro.com.my/portal/articles/art_3287.html
Hope this can clear your doubt.  Cheers.

Updates :  Astro system is currently down now.  It is nationwide.

That will not affect our viewing,would it?

That's great 

But I heard it's not wise to get B.Yond now,because the activation might fail?

is it ur friend?

relax...just joking here...

Yaaa..we in this forum are all better and/or an expert in the broadcasting industry. People in Astro are all stupid as all the geniuses have took off.

HD la. True HD in 1080p.

may be in their terminology, 'True HDs'  are not those 'up-scaled' HD programs.

this guy doesn't know sarcasm even when it hit him in the face

Wah up already.. owh yeah la 27th Dec
cant wait to go home...

And also for byond decoder, got sd channel 994.

for old decoder - channel 110
for byond decoder - hd = channel 110 / sd = channel 994