Cannot stand the way they imitate,look at CNA news,its natural,its asian but this fellows.................!
Talk on FB on new surprises coming up next month,so lets all hope for the best!

Viacom18 Secures Measat Asia Satellite Carriage


Kuala Lumpur – MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. (“MEASAT”) announced today an agreement with Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd. (“Viacom 18”) for use of the MEASAT-3a satellite for the international distribution of Viacom 18’s channels across the Asian region.

Viacom 18 is a 50/50 joint venture operation in India between Viacom Inc. and the Network 18 Group. The joint venture includes leading brands across television, film and digital media to build one of India’s leading multimedia entertainment powerhouse. The brands include MTV, NICK, VH1, COLORS and Viacom18 Motion Pictures.

"With wide coverage and a powerful Asian footprint, MEASAT-3a is the obvious satellite choice for distribution of our international services," said Piyush Gupta, Chief Technology Officer, Viacom 18.

“MEASAT is excited to be working with Viacom 18 to distribute its popular international channels via MEASAT-3a” said Yau Chyong Lim, Senior Director, Sales and Marketing, MEASAT. “The addition of Viacom 18’s channels further enhances the assortment of premium channels on MEASAT’s 91.5°E Asia video neighbourhood.”

The MEASAT-3/3a satellites distribute News, Lifestyle, Music, General Entertainment, Sports and Documentary channels across Asia. With a bouquet of SD, HD and 3D channels, MEASAT is the preferred satellite operator for broadcast distribution in the region.

Rumours are that as far Indian and malay channels,RIA and Vellithirai may go HD!

Capital TV Launches Today – Business & Finance Channel

Capital TV is a new business and finance TV channel like no other. It is the first homegrown business TV channel in Malaysia that offers in-depth coverage of business and finance issues and it makes it’s debut today. It will be broadcast in HD to TV screens but will also be available through broadband internet and mobile devices.

It is only exclusive to Telekom Malaysia Bhd’s ™ Unifi subscribers.

Adding more content is TM’s way of strategising itself to brace for competition from other players in the market place.

The Capital understands business issues and their effects on finance and the global economy. It offers well-researched programmes that are in line with the needs of business community and those interacting with the business and finance sector.

Its programmes seek to clarify and simplify complex issues. Each issue presented in the programme will be analysed and discussed thoroughly with the help of personalities from their respective fields of studies. The TV station supports the international best practice in journalism that will ensure fair coverage on certain issues and integrity of its journalists.

Capital TV has hired more than 30 people. Its studio is located in Petaling Jaya. Pravin Kumar, formerly from the national news agency (Bernama) has been appointed editor-in-chief of Capital TV.

Azman has 65.5% equity stake in Online Dynamics, Essem Capital Sdn Bhd holds 22.2%, Fauziah Din (1.1%) and Sharinaz Shafee (11.1%). The company has a paid-up capital of RM900,000.

The directors of Online Dynamics are Azman and his brothers Zulkifly and Eddy .

Digistar hopes to join digital TV ‘revolution'

Kuala Lumpur: The migration from analogue to digital television transmission has everyone excited over who will be given the coveted government contract, estimated to be worth RM2 billion.

ACE market-listed Digistar Corp Bhd is one of those companies that are looking to be involved in the project once the government announced the contract.

Digistar director Tan Sri Zaman Khan expressed hope that the government would give preference to local and homegrown companies
with the experience, expertise and know-how.

“The government needs to do more to nurture local companies to become world-class companies. For example, TATA Group of India, which started off as a truck company, has expanded to become the country’s top IT company with the support of the Indian government,” he said in an interview with Business Times, recently.

Currently, the market talk is that tycoon Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Albukhary, through his privately held entity Puncak Semangat Sdn Bhd, had been promised the job by the government. It is also learnt that Puncak Semangat had gone on a recruitment drive to hire engineers by teaming up with local universities to train talent.

Digistar managing director Datuk Lee Wah Chong said the company was preparing for the conversion project, in the event that it was able to land a part of the contract.

“We very much would like to supply for that job and we are talking with several companies. It would also help Digistar’s future earnings if it was involved in the project.”

Lee said the company was also in the midst of starting a subsidiary in Singapore early next year to bid for similar jobs in the region.

"All TV stations will have to switch to the digital system by 2015 as no equipment for the analogue system will be produced any more," he added.

Digistar is involved in, among others, the design, supply, installation and integration of IT infrastructure; teleconferencing; interactive media management systems; radio and television news automation; telecommunications systems; and other related electronic systems.

Lee also spoke on the problem of brain drain in Malaysia, saying it was slowing eating into the productivity of local companies, including Digistar.

"The government should provide more support to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The growth of SMEs will help reduce and reverse the brain drain.

"In Japan and Taiwan for example, local SMEs get more projects and contracts compared with foreign companies," he said.

Just subscribed to Astro IPTV, can't wait to watch the channels in HD

here are some pics of Capital TV..from their advertisements they claim the channel is in Full HD. first sorry for the bad pictures 

Here are a few more pics. First dedicated business channel broadcasted in HD for Malaysia I guess.














ok I should stop now before I start making this thread into a UNIFI iptv thread.

Heat over satellite dish crackdown in Sabah

Azman Habu
| December 7, 2011

Astro's monopoly and recent seizure of parabolic satellite dishes has come under attack in Sabah.

TAWAU: The seizure of 193 satellite dishes around Sabah by the Customs Department has drawn into the spotlight the federal government’s continued bias towards KL-based satellite service provider Astro and its victimizing of Sabahans.

Deputy Chief Minister Dr Yee Moh Chai as well as several senior opposition leaders, in voicing their shock, have also branded the seizures as “ridiculous”.

“After all we are subscribing to the Prime Minister’s ‘People First Performance Now’ dictum,” he said after making known his unhappiness with federal government’s continued policy of not allowing people to use parabolic satellite dishes.

The state Customs Department announced over the weekend it had launched crackdown on the use of unapproved satellite dishes last month under Customs Act 1967.

Those caught in possession are liable to a fine of not less than 10 times the value of the seized items or imprisonment of up to three years or both.

A total of 64 dishes were confiscated from residences in the districts of Beaufort, Papar, Kota Kinabalu, 76 in Keningau and Tambunan and 48 in Tawau, department deputy director Hamzah Sundang said on Saturday.

Each dish costs between RM300 to RM500 making the total seizures worth about RM200,000.

Yee, who is also Sabah Resource Development and Information Technology Minister, said it was absurd that the use of such dishes was still banned in a borderless world.

“We should accept the fact that the world is getting smaller. For a runner, for example, they cannot be asked to use only one type of shoes. We cannot allow a monopoly,” he told the reporters here..
Astro monopoly criticized
He said preventing people from using any satellite dishes apart from those supplied by Astro did not make sense and was also a monopolistic exercise condoned by the government.

Yee said that the rational for not allowing the public to use such dishes in the past was because the federal government wanted to control information.

“But now people can access information from anywhere,” he said, adding that disallowing the use of satellite dishes “is like the ostrich burying its head in the sand … it is not tenable and against the interests of the nation.”

Sabah DAP leader Jimmy Wong also slammed the seizures as an affront to freedom of information.

He said there was nothing wrong in people buying parabolic dishes as they are doing what the government wants them to tap on more information to gain more knowledge and achieve the government’s vision of becoming a fully developed nation by 2020.

“Parabolic dishes are cheap and can help people gather three to four times more information than is available. In China there are more than 100 stations.

“The government should get rid of the policy prohibiting the people from using these dishes,” he said.

He also criticized the monopoly held by Astro.

“At the moment we are only limited to Astro … there is no competition, a total monopoly.

“If the government really means the words – ‘People First’ – the government should be open to other satellite channel providers, just like the many cellular phone companies.

“In Sabah, we have used parabolic dishes for the past 20 to 30 years without problems,” he said reminding the authorities that the devices were initially allowed in areas in Sabah and Sarawak where telecommunication services are spotty at best due to the terrain.

There you are ! astro is here to rule...astro wanted control of sabah and sarawak and the attack has begun i think!

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Added on December 7, 2011, 7:48 pm
Astro got one crap which wants to be CNN/BBC etc....its Awani !!!

Yes pal, the rakyat have to wake up......things are getting out of control! Fixing a dish to get FTA channels is an offence ? WTF!The cheapest mode for the poor who cannot afford BB streaming and paid tv ,More the 50 years given the govt  never changed its time we change it!

I too dream so but the govt has to honour 15 years more granted to astro, all i hope we can hv more media players which wl cover almost all satelite channels thru BB.BB streaming seems to be the best choice here,cos they wl never agree to our own dishes.

Combat Hospital – Premieres Dec 15, Every Thurs, 10:40pm, First & Exclusively on AXN Beyond HD with subtitle.

Been using Unifi IPTV for 2 days now I gotta say it is probably the strongest competitor for Astro. IMHO the HD channels on HyppTv have better PQ compared to Astro HD channels. Moreover, Fashion TV HD broadcast certain programs daily in 3D. Something different besides EPL matches. Hope this will make Astro push more quality HD channels for Byond subscription.

Sun TV to launch 4 HD channels

Sun TV Network will launch four new High Definition channels in Tamil and Telugu languages on 11 December 2011.

The company has always been in the forefront of pioneering new technologies and in bringing value added services to its customers. The launch of these HD channels is in line with that tradition and reinforces the company's competitive positioning in the South Indian broadcast media space.

The new HD channels are Sun TV HD, K TV HD and Sun Music HD for Tamil and Gemini TV HD for Telugu. These channels will be the first of its kind in Tamil and Telugu.

These HD channels will first be offered on DTH and digital cable platforms in India, and will progressively become available in global markets. These channels would be priced at Rs. 40 per subscriber per month per channel for Sun TV HD, K TV HD and Gemini TV HD and Rs. 25 per subscriber per month for Sun Music HD. The bouquet price for all the four HD channels will be Rs. 100 per month.

With this introduction, the company will be offering a bouquet of 25 channels including the 4 new HD channels.

Maybe u are right,most of us can now read astro's mind!!!

Smart Card inactive....damn...

b.yond 1... now is ok dy...turns out tat my father forgot to paid the bill...

Is there suppose to be a POP UP from the TV screen from the Beyond Box when the due date payment is almost expiring?

Hmm, fox movies premium..

MEASAT selects Arianespace to launch the MEASAT-3b satellite

Kuala Lumpur, 14 December 2011 – Asia’s leading satellite operator, MEASAT Global Berhad (“MEASAT”), has chosen Arianespace to launch the MEASAT-3b satellite. MEASAT-3b will be boosted into geostationary transfer orbit by an Ariane 5 launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, during the fourth quarter of 2013.