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I wanted to get a technician to install an old antenna & decoder that I had kept given to me by my friend as a 2nd decoder in my bedroom.
The plan was so that I can just transfer the smartcard from my living room decoder to my bedroom decoder.

However, the technician say now cannot do this anymore because Astro now has upgraded the decoder to check the smartcard serial number to match the decoder serial number that was initially purchased.

Last time i heard can, but this is news to me...

Anybody can confirm this?

I have standard definition astro decoder, one old Phillips type, and new phillips type.

since u oredi hav the 2 decoder why not find out and tell us the results

test it on byond too plox

thats explain astro beyond

Astro full of bollocks. I have 3 decoders in my house in separate rooms and the card can be used in all of those decoders including beyond.

Not true. I can use the same single astro card for both my houses. Not beyond though..

I tried bringing my ASTRO smart card to my girfriend's house to watch sport channel (since my gf dont subscribe to sport channels).. and it worked!

it is not Byond by the way~

I can confirm it's a bullsh*t too... coz I got 2 decoders at home but with just 1 card. 1 for upstair and 1 for downstairs.. Whenever I wanted to watch upstairs, I just removed the smart card from downstair's decoder and bring it upstairs.. No problem..
*Right now I've sold one of the decoder.. fearing that the smart card may broken if I keep swapping the card into different decoder all the time.

This post has been edited by zeese: Feb 17 2011, 08:58 AM

That technician is bullshitting.

I have 2 decoder and 2 smart card on 2 different house, can swap here swap there all no problem.

Not astro beyond.

it real. you cannot. if u open police will come and catch u

I have confirmed from my colleague~
the swapping wont work with Byond

kesian masih terpaksa guna service company bodoh ini.

only applicable for astro byond n byond pvr
for old astro decoder,still can change the smartcard to any old astro decoder

if it's lock to the machine, then once ur decoder spoilt what u gonna do? apply for new account?

go to astro to get replacement
apply new account mean that u need to pay new installation fee

for normal Astro decoder, you can swap the smart card with other decoder, sometimes u need to rescan or need to reinsert twice to make it work but defintely can work.

for Astro Byond, there is no way you can swap the card as the card is tie with the Byond decoder.

hope this helps!!

this only applies to astro byond

who needs astro when u have UNIFI, I download like 10-15 movies a day no prob

I miss Mega Tv...

my place tarak unifi

online streaming ftw

and btw, TS:

Sharing is caring, don't kedekut..

im having the problem, my smart card which come with Thompson decoder is not compatible with old Nokia decoder.

It keep on saying invalid smart card on Nokia decoder, but works fine on Thompson decoder. I suspect newer smart card will not works with older model decoder

Error404

Ka na sai Astro..faulty decoder no free replacement...what kind of service nie....ooi paying 100++ monthly..