Given that there's still nothing about repealing the exclusive programming law and TM has SyFy HD...

Give feedback to SyFy and/or TM If enough people write in they'll add it to their to-do list. After all, UniFi IPTV STB has subtitle support...

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 2 2012, 03:51 PM

Sad thing, expanded to 2025 by the s#!* SKMM iirc

Still, takes forever. No one can wait 10 years

Exactly. Which is why I think they'll fail.

It's impossible to have nationwide takeoff if using fiber, unless you have one or two dozen contractors per district and willing to pump out ultra huge capital, and you keep constant pressure on the contractors to make sure they roll out fast and within days of signing up.

15 contractors only is a joke. No way 15 contractors can cover whole of Malaysia let alone Klang Valley.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 5 2012, 05:20 PM

Stupid thng is, MEASAT 1 and 2 is still up there. Just that both has been apparently given, rented or sold off to South Africa and renamed Africasat 1 and 2

WTF gomen! That was suposed to be a national heritage! It even has a few groundbreaking features and world firsts!

If MEASAT had just kept both, we'd have more bandwidth! But no! they apparently wrote the two off so Assteruk can play the "not enough bandwidth" card!

* Sos cili that Measat 1 & 2 renamed and moved to Africa: http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/measat-1.htm

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 6 2012, 01:27 AM

Well, note that some of the transponders are designated as "spare", in case of breakdown. Maybe it will be used in the future tho. So maybe he meant oly 64 is in use...

Possibly, but if it's only rented out, why the rename?

Iirc already extended further to 2025 in 2009. Those SKMM b*****ds...

Agreed!

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 6 2012, 10:18 AM

Good point. I remember reading it in The Star. But now I cannot find it either.

Maybe I remember wrong thing?

Edit: Ok, turns out I was half right. After some tenuous digging, it turns out that the sos was NST, it was 1998 not 1999, and sos article has been removed. But a copy has been preserved in another thread in LYN: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/670019/all


So it's not 2025, but 2022. Still, 5 years if I didn't misunderstand the article...

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 6 2012, 10:50 PM

Correction: it's 2008, not 1998, and 2009, not 1999. My calendar cuckoo already.

And I'm now more convinced that I may have misread the article at that time, after reading it over again, probably anger from the article saying gomen blocking Assteruk from bringing in new channel- just when all my favorite shows moving from channels Assteruk has to channels Assteruk doesn't have - caused bias and read error.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 7 2012, 02:32 AM

I beg to differ. Not sure if the issue Max204 facing is due to new FW, but when I upgraded to bae-yong in December 2009 (my last year before cancel), I had HDMI going to TV and Composite (yellow-red-white cable) going to old VCR (yes, I still use one to play back old archival tapes and make archival recording at that time). Never had that issue. The error only cropped up when I tried to experiment and connected the Assteruk bae-yong directly to a BlackMagic Intensity Pro card on my MCPC (My MCPC has 5.1 channel surround speaker and 1080p display! At that time Assteruk not yet release PVR function yet, which is one of my motives for integrating Assteruk to MCPC- want PVR function and use 5.1 speaker kit), which of course is programmed to deny HDCP copy-once and copy-never signal. Also, Assteruk bae-yong Component (RGB/YPbPr) is already adhering to analog sunset, can only output 576i signal one. Last I checked HD video is downscaled to 576i and simultaneously output with HDMI.

It could be his TV acting up (HDCP chip fry?) or simply, his assteruk decoder HDCP fry (lightning? since most people dun turn off and unplug even when lightning, I'm inclined to think it a possibility), or simply cable loose or oxidization of HDMI cable contacts on either end. If he has a HDCP splitter or HDCP wireless transceiver, it could be that fry too. My advice would be to try a different TV using HDMI, and if that fails, call Assteruk.

My experience with bae-yong was over 2 years ago tho. Maybe newer firmware blocks analog out. Either way, I dun care, Assteruk already step on my toe, not dealing with them ever again.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 9 2012, 10:38 PM

Yeah, that's true. I agree.

Interesting observation Yeah, I dun know about that. As mentioned, my last experience with bae-yong was between December 2009 and December 2010.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 10 2012, 02:36 PM

17 location in 2 years? Freaking kidding me.

They'll need to target whole of Klang Valley and Straits settlement plus other major cities and outskirts in two years if they want to be successful.

Sounds like history is repeating itself. They still haven't figure out why assteruk is so popular (hint: Almost full coverage of Malaysia upon launch).

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 11 2012, 03:50 PM

But then in Jakarta big ugly dish receiver is legal...

I hate that fella like poison. He's the one that initially approve Assteruk's price hike last year, remember? After rakyat complain, he put on show only to cover his ass, price still rise.

And of course, I will never forgive him for Internet censorship blocking of FS sites (I think P2P also kena for a few days, Steam which is using P2P protocol also suddenly become unusably slow). Seksa dun get to continue watching show that NTV7 cancelled halfway through it's run because of him. And also will never forgive him for banning Erykah Badu over a stupid reason (Erykah Badu guest appeared in a show I liked. Said show also kena cancel halfway through it's run).

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 19 2012, 02:35 PM

They did a test using the Chinese DMB-T system in 2008. I actually got to watch quite a bit of it because by sheer luck I ended up with a handheld DMB-T receiver.

Not very good, framerate very choppy.

The signal has vanished last I tried it tho. Unless the decoder's tuner, being Chinese made, has died. But then again, it is still capable of picking up RTM DMB/DAB Radio test signal (and before this, RTM's DMB-T TV test signal, which is now also gone).

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 20 2012, 03:57 PM

Well, signal no longer on air. Is there any wonder why?

Most likely they'll be forced to pick DVB-T2 when RTM digital launches this..., er, next year.

ABN didn't even respond to my question about where it's initial rollout is going to be, and how long before they cover Klang...

Why do I have a feeling that ABN is just an illusion created to trick people into thinking that the gomen is doing something about assteruk's monopoly?

Btw, TM will be dropping Fashion TV from their lineup in May. So much for that...

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 22 2012, 08:21 AM

Hmmm... The notice say channel 143 only. There's another Fashion TV channel on 142. Both shows different programming tho.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 22 2012, 10:32 PM

Maxis, sister company of Assteruk, using it's older sister tricks - "exclusivity" - to lock in channels. I can see where this is going. Still, TM already got Trace Sports, and Maxis Internet salesperson once told me most likely Maxis IPTV and TM IPTV will share channels once launched. So maybe some (if not all) of TM's channels will also go to Maxis IPTV and vice-versa?

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 23 2012, 10:29 AM

It costs money? I thought they were giving it away for free. I noticed it it since two weeks ago.

Questionable if people will want to pay for it tho, the channel is available free of charge on SPB TV. Still, good effort. I notice that the programming on SPB TV's France 24 is different from Unifi's- compared them side by side, it's not just a 10 second delay, but entire programming is different.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 23 2012, 04:30 PM