Normal issue what. I've been seeing this problem with foreign channel for ages. I think it's because unlike local channels, foreign channel datastream already arrive at Ass-throw compressed. For various reasons (most likely to add hard subtitles), instead of just forwarding the bitstream, they recompress the signal

All these could be averted if they have just forwarded the bitstream and adding subtitle data stream instead of what they're doin now

Rumor also says that Disney is also going to rebrand Playhouse Disney to Disney Jr. Already happen in US and Europe and will happen in Asia sometime next month if Wikipedia is to be believed. It'll be interesting to see what Astro will do...

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 8 2011, 03:38 PM

Eh, they already have an unhealthy dose of BM content on Disney as-is (whose bright idea was it to put Upin and Ipin on that channel? I feel hype aversion and hate them already because they're everywhere and even have their own channel on Hypp.TV ).

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 9 2011, 01:28 AM

Next year... Next year...


Not going to work. The device just "clones" one card into 5. Since Ass throw cards are now paired with the decoders, theoretically unless the other decoders are somehow reprogrammed to use the same card, only the decoder that the cloned card is from will work. The others will just give card not matching error.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 9 2011, 03:06 AM

I agree. Last time I check no longer possible. Even taking card at my aunt's house from decoder downstairs to my uncle's bedroom also not possible.

And that device doesn't really clone to say. It apparently reads the data from the one card using the "server" device and then wirelessly transmit copies onto the "client" cards which is put into the decoder. Hence "cloning", But once the "server" loses power, all stop working.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 9 2011, 11:30 PM

Can the DVD recorder bypass HDCP? Astro's HDMI signal is HDCP protected...

I've been using a One Electronics DVR6626 with Nokia Astro box for donkey years and works beautiful. Anyone know if the recorder will still work with B.yond box? Never tested the decoder with my B.yond (decoder is at my aunt's place) and when I tried it with UniFi, it gave copy protection error even on analog signal because of Macrovision. Even for RTM1. And now that B.yond box is being made mandatory, I'm afraid that Astro's B.yond analog also has Macrovision. I need to record onto DVD because I live in a different house and I prefer watching TV on my computer screen.

Probably they follow how TM does it- just connect B.yond box to the router (TM's router is a DIR-615, which has a port priority function that assigns Port 4 which the IPTV must be connected to as higher priority. I assume Time will offer a similar router to customers who want Astro IPTV) which connects to the fiber box and convert Ethernet to FIOS. Of course, this has the same implication as UniFi- it can work anywhere given there is sufficient bandwidth (on the other hand, there is no other 100Mbps service provider in Malaysia), but Astro purposely lock the service down only to Time, just like how UniFI IPTV is locked to only UniFi.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 13 2011, 02:25 AM