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ESPN STAR Sports provides Olympics coverage on Astro

Kuala Lumpur – ESPN STAR Sports, the official broadcaster of the London 2012 Olympic Games, recently announced its broadcast coverage on Astro that will provide the most extensive coverage of the sporting meet in Malaysia across 15 channels.

ESPN STAR Sports will deliver more than 3,800 hours of round-the-clock coverage of the London 2012 Games from 27 July to 12 August.

Coverage can be seen on ESPN (Astro Ch 812), STAR Sports (Astro Ch 813), ESPN HD (Astro Ch 832) and ESPNEWS (Astro Ch 818). Also for the first time ever, ten dedicated HD ESPN STAR Sports channels will cover the Games with LIVE and first-run coverage, in addition to key events being showcased in 3D for on ESPN STAR Sports’ 3D channel.

ESPN STAR Sports will feature news update programmes hosted by its studio presentation team in Singapore, such as the morning show SportsCenter Espresso and Update at 8 in the evenings, to bring the best highlights from the London 2012 Games. The sports content provider will also have a team of reporters on-ground in London to deliver in-depth interviews and stories.

I smell...over compression...

The reason is they want to trap you with a contract,free or not is not the issue,decide wisely.

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Added on May 15, 2012, 2:15 pmTrue pal.its gonna stink!!!I thought they were suppose to use Thaicom cos they hv no more space and I wonder what happened.

This post has been edited by smileguy: May 15 2012, 02:15 PM

Maybe that's where their satellite rental (I remember they announced deal to rent bandwidth from Thaicom? Correct me if I'm wrong) will come into play- use rented satellite to transmit Olympic, then once done, terminate contract.

It still comes down to this. Why they want to trap existing customers with extended contract? Of course laa scard of them leaving left and right! People already wised up to Assteruk's tricks and despite their attempt to cover up, it's already well known that a lot of people terminated. Quoting the old song from The Who: Won't get fooled again. So they use tricks like NoJOI and free PVR upgrade to make what's left extend their contracts with them.

Exactly my thoughts too!

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: May 15 2012, 02:23 PM

same number of channels offered in Singapore.....but believe most will be part-time/ad-hoc channels. Anyways, they are all FOC, so can't complain. 8-)

"Back at home, all mio TV subscribers will enjoy free access to exciting round-the-clock coverage of the London 2012 Games across 13 channels (10 of which are in HD). This includes over 680 hours of build-up programming and original programming featuring highlights from the Games. mio TV will aim to broadcast every single ‘live’ event that Team Singapore athletes are involved in. The platform’s technical capabilities enables viewers to use a robust search function to look for the events that they wish to watch without having to surf through all 13 channels."

just now got some info that others service provider for fiber is lunching their own iptv next month.. so there are 2 service lunch next month.. abnxces and the other ISP..

Is that maxis bro?

yeah.. hahahaha... cant wait laaa~

Double compression =p, part 1 from sg, part 2 from assteruk, so even if assteruk provided a tad bit higher bitrate than part1 source, quality might still stink lol

Coverage is limited but not too limited like Un@@@!Most towns are linked to at least 5km radius,I heard.

is it??

well, can treat it as the method to get clearer reception of media prima and rtm channels

getting fedup with the FTA analog broadcasts

Well, I don't need it Klang town is very strategic in that all the UHF transmitters (KL Tower and Genting Highlands) are in line of sight and one well positioned UHF antenna is enough to pick up from both where Analog and Digital is concerned. Just need a second VHF antenna pointed towards Sungai Besi for RTM1 and 2 and that covers all analog channels.

Also...

Yeah. Very fed up with FTA channels. They dropped too many shows mid-season and never bring in new seasons of shows I like that I'm very PO'ed by them already. Plus, very pissed off when I tuned into Lilo and Stitch the Series on TV2 one morning and found that they've translated it to Malay. I dun understand the practicality of that action

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: May 16 2012, 05:30 AM

Bro, you live in Msia, not Spore. You have to accept this.

Hi there,
I am thinking of buying Blackmagic intensity to capture some some of my favorite HD program from Astro Byond to keep as my personal copy. Do you think Astro will block the HDMI signal input to Blackmagic to prevent copying of these byond channels

Thanks

I doubt it,

I think yes. Because they turn on the HDCP on the HDMI output. Analog RCA maybe can....

I can confirm it's not going to work, at least not without a HDCP remover in the middle (*cough*HDFury2*cough*). Blackmagic Intensity does not support HDCP encryption. Take it from someone who attempted to experiment on this when baeyong first came out.

There's another card out that supports HDCP- AVerMedia HD-DVR iirc. Not sure if it's available in Malaysia tho- I hear people say it's available, but I can't find one personally. However, from what I read it's HDCP support isn't much of an improvement- it allows Assteruk to display on the computer (compare to black screen with message "Copy Protection Failed" on a Blackmagic Intensity) but attempting to record will result in the "Copy Protection Failed" error.

Like Chikana said you can still record from analog with HD signal downsampled to SD tho, which is a somewhat acceptable compromise for me. Which is still somewhat better than TM's IPTV (even analog SD is Macrovision protected )

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: May 16 2012, 03:33 PM

Hi,

I am PVR USER.. Sometimes i will record my channel thru iphone apps (remote).. But suddenly, i try to record movies from HBO HD, but there is no record button.. Actually, before this, it's fine.. Is there any limitation?

Apparently, there 2 promos of the PVR, but i've take the rm150 one.

This post has been edited by Qash-M: May 17 2012, 12:21 AM