Al Hijrah and Al Jazeera is a two different thing.
Don't get confuse because of the "Al" in front...

Anyone know since when 8TV starts to air Thailand drama?? Earlier it airs Thai drama, called "You are my Destiny".... It's in Mandarin audio dub and Malay subtitles.

It's not that they can't afford North East Asian content...
They can afford for it, but it will be a few years old content or many months old (usually at least 6 months old) content, after their respective country's TV broadcast premiere.
I guess is Media Prima trying to offer some new type of content to viewers, so that's how they chose to air some Thai dramas with Mandarin audio dub on 8TV.

Do you think Media Prima is wise in trying to provide something new to Malaysians, which is Thai dramas?

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This post has been edited by joshhd: Dec 2 2017, 01:04 AM

Irony is, now Singapore Mediacorp channels shows "ANALOGUE" indicator below channel logo to show that the viewer is watching analogue TV channel. While their digital channels no longer put "HD" indicator below the channel logo like previously.

But Malaysia? THE OTHER WAY ROUND.
Analogue TV and pay TVs (Astro and Hypp TV) has no special indicators, but digital TV has the irritating "Siaran myFreeview" indicator on top corner of the screen.

They (MYTV) think digital TV technology as if like very ground-breaking technology like that, must show the "Siaran myFreeview" indicator to show off that "Oh, you're watching digital TV".
Very dumb leh.

Most of the youths nowadays won't care about this digital TV migration also...
The trend nowadays has changed. Last time we used to depend on TV for entertainment, but now it's no longer anymore.
Plus, when you can get better quality content elsewhere than FTA TV stations (including Astro and the Internet), why would you stick to watching FTA stations channels?
That's why RTM and Media Prima viewers are getting lesser and lesser as time goes by, leaving only those non tech-savvy elderly would depend and consume on traditional media content such as TV.

I do notice that MYTV did advertise their DTT technology in places like some train stations, inside trains, billboards, newspaper, and even have advertisement spot on RTM and Media Prima channels.
But still, I don't find it enough. There's about 6 months time left before ASO and I find that our government is not putting enough effort to make sure every Malaysians is well informed about this.

I hope MYTV would advise both RTM and Media Prima to follow like what Mediacorp Singapore did; put "ANALOGUE" on-screen indicator below channel logo for viewer to aware that they're watching analogue TV. Like this:

Credit: shaun_kok
I find that this is an effective way to alert viewers that they are watching analogue TV platform, and at least they would take the initiative to know what is it about.

Currently, in Malaysia, you don't see such indicators on analogue TV and pay TVs (Astro and Hypp TV) platform, but watching it from digital TV platform has the irritating "Siaran Digital myFreeview" indicator on top corner of the screen (picture shown below) to show off that "Oh, you're watching digital TV". Very dumb indeed.


Because, if you ask around, do you know what is analogue TV? I can assure you that most of them didn't even hear before that term "analogue TV" or even mistaken it as "CRT TV", or don't know what is it, and all they know is, using those antenna you put on roof or on top of TV, that kind of TV channels, you get to see lots of "white ants" (referring to analogue TV static) on screen. But if you watch Astro, very clear picture and sound.

Seriously if MYTV and the government (MCMC) still not taking this seriously, my prediction would be, the scheduled analogue TV switch-off date by end of June 2018, are very likely to be delayed and postponed to later date, as an excuse to provide more time for viewers to migrate to digital TV. The main thing is, many Malaysians aren't aware of this ASO and yet MYTV Broadcasting didn't mention much enough about ASO. They should give tons of notices, a lot a lot of notices to the public to make sure (almost) all Malaysians aware about ASO is coming and the DTT migration, cuz just mentioning it once in a bluemoon in the news won't be effective. You expect those elderly to know, what is digital TV and analogue TV stuff? Hard to say, MYTV might be playing safe not to mention too much about ASO date, in case if it really got delayed due to some reasons. But at the end, most of the viewers just won't care and continue watching analogue TV as usual. They'll be like:
"Why I need to migrate to digital TV when I can watch analogue TV as usual?"
"Clearer picture? Now (analogue TV) not clear meh?"
"Buy the digital TV STB (decoder) for what? Need to spend money somemore. Troublesome la."









When you see these advertisement around places, it is as if MYTV thinks that this digital TV technology like something very new in Malaysia, a very ground-breaking technology like that; it is so real until those volcano eruption lava can burst out from your TV screen. They think it's like 3D technology? MYTV drunk izit? This is not advertising creativity, this is utterly stupid, irrelevant and I don't find it informative at all, and wasting advertising budget. See what we have now? 12 channels (10 SD, 2 HD) and 4 radio channels. Very ground-breaking is it? Now only 2 HD channels? Why not upgrade all or provide more RTM and Media Prima channels in HD? Like that la you advertise "Watching TV now as clear as reality" (shown on newspaper ad).

Come on, Astro uses digital television technology since they introduced its service back in 1996, and introduced HD services (Astro B.yond) back in Dec 2009. Astro is smart enough not to create stupid advertisement like MYTV did. So after 20 years since Astro introduces digital television, Malaysians can get to enjoy digital television for free through myFreeview, is it? What a third world country.....
DTT migration's PSAs from other countries including neighbouring countries like Singapore, isn't as exaggerating as this la.

MYTV Broadcasting, or any relevant parties should be informing the public about ASO, and inform the public to migrate to DTT as often, instead of MYTV keep advertise their DTT stuff (what is digital TV, how to set-up digital TV,...) and those volcano eruption nonsense. ASO is more important than DTT. Because not everyone will care much and interested to migrate to DTT if ASO is not well informed by the public, especially families (especially low income ones) that depend on FTA stations to watch TV.

Hate to say all these, but it is truly happening in our country.

This post has been edited by joshhd: Dec 6 2017, 05:28 PM

Ah you did notice that, eh? It's been quite a while I see something fishy going on this MYTV company.
Exclusive license to operate DTT for so many years, including MYTV STBs are a sign of monopoly.

Plot twist: Who knows, our government are interested more in offering DTT paid services (including urging the people to buy and use only MYTV STB) to gain additional profit, rather than ASO itself.

Since you said there's a possibility that there are 2 hills may block the signal, outdoor antenna is recommended for sure. If you couldn't get signal from your TV's built-in DVB-T2 tuner, then it won't be any difference if you use MYTV box. If you can't get analogue TV signals clearly, that doesn't guarantee you can't get digital TV signal.

If you can't signal, okay, don't give up first.
If you use any kind of signal boosters, or any cable splitters (e.g. TV reception in different rooms), remove it.

You can try a temporary messy set-up installation. Assuming you're staying in landed house, you go get a new RG6 cable and connect to your TV to your rooftop UHF antenna directly. Get what I mean? The cable will be laying around your house floor and dangling from inside to outside your house window to your rooftop antenna. This is just to check if you can really get digital TV reception or not.

Note: RG6 coaxial cable is the same cable used for Astro. RG6 is recommended cable type for both satellite and terrestrial TV.

Once you done, try aligning the antenna position and make sure it points to Bukit Larut transmitter position like what 9M-MAS said.

And, can you share a picture with us on how's your outdoor antenna look like?

Plot twist: When MYTV launches pay service in the future, you'll need MYTV Advance box and need to pay PVR recording fee.

Its simply means that they only want us to use their (MYTV) box, and not other than that. They want to monopolise the DTT set top box market, and make set top boxes other than MYTV ones to be illegal, making MYTV the only legal one. Basically means, controlling us.

I'm starting to get disappointed with MYTV already. Last time I have high hopes, now no....

Well, hard to say. Our gov might delay the ASO date, especially if they don't make sure the public are well informed about the DSO.

Cheap RM2 indoor antenna??? Where can I buy it?
LOL. Got so cheap one meh?
How does it look like?

Your condo, how many years old already? Newly built ones? As far as I know, most condo's master antennas system for receiving terrestrial TV are mainly on analogue TV signals instead. I'm not sure if there's any condos out there, where their centralised system has native support receiving digital TV signals.
If yours can receive digital TV signals, you should be able to get strong signals reading, but I do wonder why is it 60%
Perhaps did you try receiving analogue TV from your condo's master antenna? It could be just a coincidence that it can receive the signals, or maybe your condo's master antenna has some other technical issues.

This post has been edited by joshhd: Dec 19 2017, 11:06 PM

Even the signal from Astro centralised dish also weak?
That could possibly means your condo's master antenna is "not really in good condition"... It could be faulty system, or they use too splitters which splits the cables connection to many units of your condo, causing signal to degrade.
Usually if this happens, use a signal amplifier could help.

Oh my bad. Do you have a dedicated wall socket port meant for terrestrial TV? Did you try to connect and see how's the signal reception like?

I think you should consider outdoor antenna, since the distance is pretty far away.

Hmm no... Still outdoor antenna is better.
Indoor antenna is suitable if your location is around 30km or less away from transmitter.

Err... Why would you buy in Singapore dollars if you can buy in Malaysia Ringgit?
Kepong is approx. 10km away from KL tower (line of sight), so you should be able to get strong signals even with a cheap and short antenna, such as the ones from Lazada...

A cheap one is good enough actually (unless if you say there's a lot of high hills around your area, then it's a different story).
But you can go ahead with good quality ones if you want...

That's because your antenna are able to receive adequate signal even the booster is turned off.
If the distance between your nearest TV transmitter to your home is too close, there's no need to turn on booster.
If you insist to do so, it will tend to receive too much signals (signal overload), causing it to show "No Signal". Remember, this is digital TV, not analogue TV.

It is not like analogue TV, where the more the signal, the better the picture quality. It's not for the case for digital TV.
Digital TV signal is, once you can get enough/adequate signal, you'll get perfect picture and sound quality. But if the signal is too poor or too strong, straight away "No Signal" or pixelation (e.g. a lot of coloured boxes appears on screen, similar like what you see when watching Astro during bad weather.)

Which part of Johor you're receiving this?