Wah, news oso need hd kah ?

But, only for 4days? 

If Astro "really" have bandwidth issue, wouldn't be nice for Astro to "rent" other satellite bandwidth?

Bro, I think they are indeed changing codec. No other reason for them to force subscribers to switch to B.yond box otherwise (in case you missed out on the news- now it's mandatory for everyone to get a B.yond decoder. They're going house to house changing decoder and dish if necessary).

Although, the full codec switch would most likely come shortly only after all the decoders have been switched. That would still be months away....

There's a third option for them: make IPTV mode work over all broadband links like DETV and deliver at least on-demand content over that. If need allow device to piggyback over Maxis 3G (free 3G dongle that plugs into front USB port and only connects to special AP for Astro use over Maxis airwave). That way they can free out at least two dozen channels of the satellite. Or switch to IPTV completely with Maxis 3G dongle (or Maxis LTE once that launched). HSPA+ can do 14.4Mbps, enough for one HDTV stream. LTE can fly at 100Mbps. And if they use UDP Multicast, hardly any bandwidth will be used. Again, this will require that their B.yond switch plan is complete. Which is still months away.

I hope they regret selling off MEASAT 1 to South Africa and completely phasing out MEASAT 2.

guys, question,

got my astro byond(the normal one, not pvr) installed today and the installer guy said that i shouldn't pull off the power supply at all cost, even during thunderstorm??? is it true??? only standby mode???

and whats the usb slot in front for??

and it seems that everyone have to change to the byond decoder or you will be charged for the decoder if your current service(old decoder) is cut off... deng~

I heard even in standby it uses 20W ,so I switch off my byond every night

putting byond in standby is to facilitate firmware update, so may be you can let it in standby during the day hours

about the ads, it is meant for old decoders

I always wanted to turn if off at night because I find it is too hot!

Hi RAMChYLD, can you tell us how to do "force FW upgrade"? 
I believe this will come in handy when we need to do this in future... 

I think the smartcard have to change but the dish was optional. The old dish can be used for the Byond but maybe signal quality might not be as good as the 65cm 'black dish'..

3 months still couldnt solve my byond problem!!

how many times techicians come to my house to fix the problem, how many times already change sim card still couldnt fix

when i want to change to ordinary astro or terminate it, they said cannot.

when insert the sim card, the decoder stop working. already called several technicians to come over to fix it.

the decoder only shows --:-- but the technicians said no problem with the alignment of the dish

it seems like the cable problem, signal is not getting through to the decoder

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