Irrelevant since 1999(?)

Supposely, RTM ......had its funding by government years ago....but....bangunan kosong je.....equipment entah pergi ke mana  .........

I think I did post the article few years ago.

MYTV provides the infrastructure. But the broadcasters especially Media Prima feel that the infrastructure fee charged by MYTV is way too high and therefore they are not willing to pay the high bandwith fee charged for HD channels. That's why they prefer to broadcast in SD format with resolution and bitrate as low as possible. In fact most of the TV dramas of Media Prima channels are originally in HD format, but they are downgraded to SD by Media Prima.

Yup. Some broadcasters intentionally use blur filter so that the encoder can compress more.
Less spatial/temporal detail = easier to encoder to compress into smaller file size.

Meanwhile, in Europe freeview channel, broadcasters make use of B-Pyramid, extremely long GOP, max 4 reference frames (limit for H264 L4.1 1920x1080 at 30fps), max 9 reference frames (1280x720 at 60fps), max 16 B-frames, extreme distance between QP value for I, P and B frames
All above are bad news.
B-pyramid = ancient or first generation decoder can't properly decode.
Long GOP = try switching to another channel and wait until the first I-frame arrive...until then, you are stuck with audio only.
Multiple B-frames and reference frame = same issue as long GOP except waiting for I and P + B frames
QP distance between IPB = this one the worst, who in the right mind to use QP15 for I frame, QP 24 for P frame and QP 35 for B frame? You can see the video quality slowly deteriorating as it plays until the next I-frame refresh.

Certain broadcasters even speed up drama/film broadcast so that more time can be allocated for advertisements.

No worry.
People will not notice audio different.

We just care when TV3 HD will start..

Sony. Using built in speaker will not notice the different.

Hi all..  is it the new digital transmission format is DVB-T2? I cannot pickup any digital signal.. my tv is sony w650 series which is DVB tuner only..

Those kampungs already getting  free decoders sent to them under br1m. The decoders still got Analogue output , can use back old crt tv.

Old CRT TV does not have HDMI port. But they still can connect the set top box to TV using conventional RCA (red, white, yellow).

All digital DVB-T2 set top boxes sure have HDMI output. Without HDMI, it does not serve the purpose of "digital".

By the way, current 10pm TV dramas in NTV7 and 8TV use quite good bitrate, not bad at all for SD channels. Media Prima is rather inconsistent, always testing different bitrate. Hope its current bitrate for SD can persist.