subscribe to superpack, at the same time pay promotional price of RM150 to upgrade to byond PVR, 500GB hard disk is already included inside byond PVR

the only bad thing about byond PVR is that the installer will need to lay another cable into your house, this is because byond PVR has twin tuners, unless you pay an extra RM300 for a stacker-destacker device which only needed a single cable into your house

RM150 includes Byond PVR + 2x20m RG-6 cable + 65cm satellite dish + dual output LNB + 4x F-connector + HDMI cable + remote control + av cable + labour

oh also 2x AA battery for the remote control

This post has been edited by neb: Jul 5 2011, 12:50 AM

compression F-connector should be better than twist-on




This post has been edited by neb: Jul 5 2011, 01:46 PM

are you using compression connector already? can upload snapshot of your mod?

byond does not have composite video to rf modulator, need to buy one

if you are on HD service, can buy HDMI splitter to distribute HD video to your HDTV

sharing satellite signal via splitter will interfere with SD channels reception, for example if you are watching HD channel on your byond box, other decoders when tuning to SD channel will have blank screen

byond PVR requires 2 output LNB

for WD my passport AV, only 2.5" scorpio hard drive can fit into the USB casing

now astro has a promotion on byond PVR, subscribe to superpack and upgrade to PVR for RM150, call astro to make booking but this time don't tell them you got a faulty old decoder

old decoder is your property, you have already paid for it ages ago

This post has been edited by neb: Jul 12 2011, 01:45 PM

bring along your dual-output LNB, some extra RG-6 cable and a few F-connectors
when you reach your kampung, replace the old LNB and lay another cable into your house

first generation philips dish, if LNB is black in colour, then you may run into problem, white colour LNB should be OK

add 2-output splitter to single output LNB may trick byond PVR to work, try it out before balik kampung, choose splitter with single port power pass to be on the safe side

are you using HDMI digital sound or anolog sound(red/white audio out)?

I think only digital audio can be adjusted for lip sync

CNA can be received in many many countries (c-band footprint) even in some parts of africa
you will need a right equipment though


This post has been edited by neb: Jul 20 2011, 03:26 PM

some high end av receivers have very advance video processing chipset, video feed through it may improve on SD picture quality

for minimum subscription fee + RM20 HD fee, your will get these HD channels:
393, 726, 720, 721, 706

you may have damaged HDMI's pin causing bad connection

like what Andrewtst has suggested
if HDMI cable's pin, then replace a new cable
if HDTV HDMI's pin, then choose another TV's HDMI port

also
if byond HDMI pin, then replace byond

This post has been edited by neb: Aug 11 2011, 03:57 PM

technically it is dual LNB packaged into a single casing piggyback on top of each other, each output is wired to a complete working LNB and can operated independently of each other output

should be no problem if yours is standard byond, byond pvr needs 2 satellite-dishes connection

but watch out for very old first generation satellite dish, its black coloured Philips LNB may not be compatible with byond, white coloured LNB is OK

better try it first on your neighbour's dish before hand

for greater resistance to rain fade, get a 1m dish

current astro dish is only 0.65m in size, not suitable for our weather condition

this hotel in KL uses 90cm offset-focus dish for astro reception


This post has been edited by neb: Aug 16 2011, 02:11 PM

read about the effect of cable shielding on signal
http://bluejeanscable.com/articles/shielding.htm

astro gives us low quality rg6 cable, 2 layer shielding with only 60% coverage braid
quad-shield rg6 should perform better on noise rejection

the best cable is Precision video coaxial cable with 95% coverage braid

This post has been edited by neb: Aug 16 2011, 03:12 PM