Thursday June 7, 2012

Astro promises football fans a real kick out of its full-fledged coverage

KUALA LUMPUR: Astro, the official broadcaster of Euro 2012 in Malaysia, promises an all-round experience of the championship which kicks off tomorrow in Poland and Ukraine.


The broadcaster will be providing coverage on TV (including HD), radio, on ground, online, and the newly launched Astro On-The-Go an innovative service which delivers non-stop entertainment via the Internet.

Astro's head of sports C.K. Lee said all 31 matches would be broadcast live via five dedicated SD channels and five interactive HD channels.

Astro will also bring the matches live via viewing parties as part of its Unmissable Tour including at Padang@1Utama in Petaling Jaya where The Star eurofutsal 2012 championship will be held on Saturday and June 23.

The viewing tour will also go to Dataran Petaling Jaya (June 9-10), Taman Tasik Titiwangsa (June 16-17), Menara Aqabah, Pasir Gudang (June 23-24) and Taman Jubli Perak, Sungai Petani (June 30 and July 1).

Lee said viewers with 3D TVs could enjoy the UEFA Euro 2012 finals in 3D on Astro Channel 838.

Astro customers who do not have the sports package can buy the Euro 2012 Special TV Pass for RM50 to view all 31 live matches.

NJOI customers would be able to catch 19 live UEFA Euro 2012 matches for free on Astro Arena (Channel 801), Lee added.

Earlier this week, Astro announced that all its customers would be able to catch all the live matches, exclusive UEFA Catch Up videos, daily match highlights and UEFA VOD titles via its new service Astro On-The-Go.

Meanwhile, places for The Star eurofutsal tournament are filling up fast. The Euro-themed competition will see each of the 16 teams representing one country taking part in the real-life Euro 2012.

Besides Astro, the other sponsors of the two mini tournaments are Maxis and Carlsberg.

Medals and cash prizes are being offered with RM1,000 for the champion, RM750 (first runner-up) and RM500 (second runner-up).

To sign up, log on to www.thestar.com.my/eurofutsal2012. For further enquiries, call 010-2100 911 or 03-7967 1388 ext. 1466.

Ass has almost all major content providers exclusive rights, whats left for others remains the question,see how unifi struggles for content.They claim to be working but its all so quiet,anybody in Puchong saw ABN station?Pls update!

Is this the standard behavior of the new update ? Start with homepage instead of channel ? Is there a way to change this ? Thanks.

  Any update on this ? Does everyone else decoder also start with the homepage ? Any way to change this behavior so it starts directly to the TV channel ?

Thanks

I saw few satellite dishes setup just next to their building at Puchong Gate. Seem still busy setting up their office.

Not reception, its your instalation,call the installer back align your dish and check u get all channels u subscribe b4 he leaves.

Hi guys,I getting in every HD channel "Letter Box" pic start from today.
Then must manually set to "Fit to screen",exit and back again........"Letter Box".

Edit:
My Panna has not been on HDMI input....

Yeah u are rite

the LNB is not install properly

I just call the tech they come and fix it...

Ass has almost all major content providers exclusive rights, whats left for others remains the question,see how unifi struggles for content.They claim to be working but its all so quiet,anybody in Puchong saw ABN station?Pls update!

Thanks for the info,so they are working on it,good,lets see whats in store!

abn mite be going thru unifi...telekom has something to do with ABN...

Now my B.yond PVR sw ver. 7.0² you can control the volume of the B.yond using B.yond remote control.

r u new beyond customer? we can control the volume since the first version maaa... just need follow the tv code setup 

NOPE not for volume control via HDMI until this new software version.

r u new beyond customer? we can control the volume since the first version maaa... just need follow the tv code setup 

Anyone can help with my problem? Btw I tried the reset code which is 977 and is not working

NOPE not for volume control via HDMI until this new software version.