Maybe, when all village people migrate to modern life & stop being should keep the legacy box bcz still can use.

My home village got old legacy box that already change to byond box with HD service. Sadly, they watch HD channel on CRT TV.

When rosak. Maybe, better tell them that you can fix the tv by buying new HDTV. Which is more cheaper than fix old CRT TV. Maybe, we still sayang benda lama...

B.yond box with CRT TV

How does the picture display?? I mean since CRT TV is not 16:9 ratio like compressed only.

Top kek they actually delivers , unlike certain DTH

#106 audio is better now

You go watch 16:9 feed channel.
And, change to Pillar Box.

That on how it look like.

What I meant by:
Video content providers = any kinds of platform that offers video-related services such as satellite TV, digital TV, internet video streaming, etc.


Many video content providers, from free or pay type, don't implement HEVC (H.265) just yet, because of the very very expensive patent fees, which is around 4x the patent fees of H.264. You can Google more about it. Patent is one thing. The provider/broadcasters have to upgrade their equipments to support H.265 HEVC somemore leh. And we consumers have to upgrade our related devices like set-top-boxes.
Yes, I'm talking about a change or upgrade take could go up to billions of dollars (not RM ringgit oh).

In general, even if Astro or MYTV uses H.265 (HEVC) or H.264 codec, we as viewers/consumer won't see the difference in terms of image quality.
The only difference is the technical advantage which saves bandwidth (sounds like supposed it will save cost as well?), but in return, service providers have to pay more patent fees and upgrades related equipment, eventually the costs doesn't look feasible and efficient at all. Many video service providers around the world are unhappy about this, so they rather stick with H.264 or find other alternatives if available.

So, if you are video content provider, would you throw in money to implement H.265 (HEVC) video compression technology because it is a new and latest technology, and yes, you like new high tech stuff, can save bandwidth and stuff, but in return you got to pay 4x more of the patent fees compared to H.264 which you already have, somemore upgrade your video processing equipment and your customer's device to support H.265 (HEVC)? Are you willing to do that?

TV3 HD (on test transmission) starts testing Dolby Digital Plus audio.
At the same time the channel name for "CJ Wow" changes to "CJ WOW SHOP".
However Media Prima did not bother fixing EPG.

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That’s really good! Dolby Digital Plus 3/2.1.

Loud and clear sound from my 5.1 home theatre setup.




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Update on TV3 HD audio:
Dolby Digital audio quality depends on programmes. Audio of certain programmes come out from centre speaker only instead of multiple speaker channels, and it sounds really crap with unstable audio. Well, since it is under test, we may wait and see.

My tv's clock is messed up when connecting to Mytv.

No it's not "unstable audio". It will be like this as it is.
Astro's Dolby audio also like that.

To identify if the content is in 5.1 or Stereo, make sure your home theatre system output its audio in 5.1 mode from your digital TV box (myFreeview box). Then, listen to your home theatre speakers one by one, see which one has sound, which one doesn't have.

If the content is in Stereo, only Left and Right channel speakers will have sound, meanwhile Centre, Rear Left and Rear Right speaker will have no sound.

I am an audiophile and I have very sensitive ears. The audio is really unstable and it sounds like chopping sound and sometimes cut into pieces (but not very serious). And most of the time the audio only comes out from centre speaker. I am pretty sure Dolby Digital in Astro HD channels are way better than TV3 HD (under test) at this point in time.

Owhh... That's what you meant by "unstable audio", is it? Hmm okok, I get it.

Is TV3 HD broadcasting in Dolby for the big big award tonight?

On fast scene, still seeing blocky image (briefly) but if not much motion it does look on par with Youtube one.

Yes. TV3 HD has 2 audio tracks.
One is HE-AAC v2 at 32kbps Stereo, and another is Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3) at 192kbps 5.1 surround sound.

But from what I hear, it seems that they simply just duplicate the Front Left/Right channel audio to ALL Rear Left/Right channel as well as Centre channel but in a lower volume.
So it will sounds like "5.1ch Stereo" where all centre, front, rear speakers sounds the same.

It doesn't sound like any truly "surround sound" at all. Just duplicate audio channel from Stereo to 5.1 only. And there's no even "virtual surround sound" method used like the Dolby Pro Logic II by broadcaster.

In other words, "fake 5.1 surround sound". If that's the case, I wonder why even they use Dolby Digital Plus when they don't seem to transmit content in proper 5.1? Not Dolby Digital (AC3) but Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3) somemore.

I hope they're still testing and will get it solved soon.

Tonights game sounds good on Dolby 5.1 option?

Just for those interested Mediacorp has now stop showing "HD" indicator on digital HD feeds.
Instead, they start showing "ANALOGUE" on the respective analog versions of channels.

For comparison, although these "Siaran digital myFreeview" watermark shown on Malaysian DTT is annoying, I agree that it is actually needed for some awareness and I expect some "Analog" indicator to be shown on Malaysian analog channels shortly before analog switchoff and the "Siaran Digital myFreeview" will be permanently removed on the DTT feeds sometime shortly berfore analog switchoff.

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Oh wow. Thanks for sharing this info...
Because Singapore will be shutting down analogue TV by end of this year, so it is good that they put such indicator, to let viewers know the source they're watching from, either digital or analogue.

If you have any news and updates about Singapore digital TV, do share with us as well... I'm interested.

Well, Singapore has now extended the analouge switch off dateline to end 2018, according to this :
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singap...62?view=DEFAULT

My guess is probably Malaysia will extend the dateline too.

50-50, but going with current trend i think the dateline will stay this time.