Confirmed, anything wrong with the box, a tecnician will come and repair it for free. no more RM50 service charge.

Viewing Astro channels on rainny days becomes easier, the new Astro B.yond setup is more stable when watching Astro while it is raining.

Confirmed, anything wrong with the box, a tecnician will come and repair it for free. no more RM50 service charge.

What about the normal SD Astro receiver. What happens if they broke, we pay for the RM50 service charge PLUS the repair fee?

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.

Hey guys, I can't seem to get astro beyond to work with the Hdmi cable. Only works only av.

Anyone know why?

6% service tax kicks in year 2011.  If you change your billing cycle to 1 year and your billing date is from now and before 1 jan 2011, you can save a lot and depends on your billing amount.

Hate to burst your bubble, you should've done this back in October when it was first announce. Astro takes time to change your billing frequency to yearly instead of Monthly so all of us are out luck.

But to those who are already on yearly bill and has been billed prior to 1st Jan...considered yourself Tax Free for a year. 

I have requested it to change by 27th that coincides with my billing date.  So, I hope can save 6% until 27 dec 2011.  By the way, I have asked Assthrow about this back in early Nov but they always say no further info to give advice...

Did they say it can be done? I tried but they sid tak sempat nak process sebelum January... 

Is the new 6% tax payed yearly, not monthly?

Will be added on your billing - monthly, quarterly, 1/2 yearly and yearly.

6% tax every month?

No la... 6% on your actual billing amount... Say, if your quarterly billing amount is $300 then 6% add on will be $18.  Total amt billed is $318.  No amount will be billed until your next billing frequency, ie., after 3 mths time, unless you change your package in this 3 mths period.

Where got tak sempat... just now the VP of customer service called and confirmed with me that she just change my frequency to yearly already.  That fellow fools u la...

No la... 6% on your actual billing amount... Say, if your quarterly billing amount is $300 then 6% add on will be $18.  Total amt billed is $318.  No amount will be billed until your next billing frequency, ie., after 3 mths time, unless you change your package in this 3 mths period.