I thought the 5 minute delay is SKMM's fault?

This is the main reason SKMM must be reformed and censorship must be abolished. To put things in the word of TM: It's the broadband age, it's not the stone age. You delay the signal also no use, people will get the news from Internet. Even if you censor the internet, information can still come in through many other different means.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 23 2012, 04:51 PM

Yeah. Very sad. Still, hopefully Digital will launch this year. Once T2 has been chosen, Media Prima, Al Hijrah and WBC will be pressured to follow.

Well, they can't air HD in Analog without transmitting in either MUSE (16:9 1080i Analog! In the 80s! The Japanese people are crazy geniuses!) or even at very least SECAM L (816x737, 819 lines). Number of Multi-System TVs that can receive SECAM L is very low, and there are practically no MUSE sets in Malaysia (save for those specially brought in for display by certain showrooms). And both format are pretty much dead anyway.

And of course, SKMM won't let them transmit in the systems anyway.

I was told by a former sssteruk engineer that assteruk actually has no right to censor the signal tho- the best they can do is black out the transmission, and ensure the feed is censored from source (i.e. Fox, Star, etc. has to provide them with an already censored feed). That probably explains why there's a Malaysia-specific feed for some of the channels, if not the channel open a branch in Malaysia and transmit locally (i.e. Disney. Wikipedia says the Disney feed assteruk is getting is actually locally transmitted from a dedicated center in KLCC independent of Disney Asia. That probably explains the amount of local crap on the channel).

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 23 2012, 09:01 PM

hmmm, I assume that there's an MTV Asia Malaysia feed? if not, anyone want to anonymously write in to the channel? not sure if Assteruk's contract wording has changed, since I last talked to that ex-employee back in 1998.

What about shows animated in 16:9? Do they trim off the sides too? Since afaik, Strawberry Shortcake Berry Bitty Adventures is 16:9 native.

As for assteruk, again, tak payah harap if it's not sukan or drama Kantonis/Hokkien. Assteruk does not care about the children. Hope TM and/or Maxis will pick it up tho- Again, Strawberry Shortcake is big among kids and adult women alike (and for some men too). If they do not secure the channel just for this show, they're missing out on good money.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 24 2012, 01:00 AM

What frequency? Can't find it on 658 or 674...

And Is it T1?

Ow. So, assteruk is playing dirty and breaking their contract behind MTV's back?

I thought ours is a local MTV Malaysia feed. Again, because Disney has set up local broadcast site and assteruk is getting the feed from them instead of the the real Disney Asia now. In other words, Disney is now practically "in-house" to assteruk, and I thought they were doing that with a lot of other channels.

Comedy Central, I don't think it we can hope for it to show up in Malaysia unless SKMM (and gomen) reform. Given that the old generation are mostly one-tracked mind and will bising whenever there's mention of ganja (seriously. The Power Rangers fiasco was extremely embarrassing. Especially since the spelling is so different and "Morphing" truly has a innocent meaning. They might as well ban Matrix for having Morpheus, Morpheus P2P, Stoik Morphman and Kai's Morph), alcohol, sex, etc, the channel doesn't stand a chance. Especially with South Park which is Comedy Central's main draw. And the gomen will always listen to the old generation because those are the ones running the so-called "moral NGOs" like JAIS.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 24 2012, 09:32 PM

Well, I think there's no chance this channel will ever show up in Malaysia unless miracles happen. Heck, their competition Adult Swim is already available in Asia for a few years (notably, The Philippines has it). But is Malaysia getting it?

Well, that's according to Wikipedia lah. Apparently they switched to a local feed since 2008. Though the other entries in the page are blatant lies (TM does NOT have Disney, and it's not available in HD on assteruk), I'm inclined to believe that part about Malaysia's dedicated feed because Disney now has all sort of local crap, and the live action segments between shows is hosted by Malaysians.

I want to know too. I scanned the spectrum manually (took 10-15 minutes) and can't find it. Is it even DVB-T1? Since T1 receivers cannot pick up T2 signal (but all T2 tuners are mandated to have T1 BC and thus can receive T1 signal).

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 24 2012, 11:32 PM

Putra brand? Never heard of 'em.

I suspect the center all will either take signal from Asia feed and inject their own segments and change certain programming as needed, or all centers have their own set of programming and need to synchronize with the schedule provided by HQ. Apparently many Asian countries have their own Disney feed/center now. So even Singapore Disney is not pure Disney Asia anymore. They're apparently trying to localize the channel for each country. Only country so far without a localized Disney Channel is apparently The Philippines (pure Asia feed) and Brunei (apparently share with Malaysia thanks to assteruk controlling their market as well)

Edit: Apparently made a Mistake. According to Wikipedia: Singapore, Malaysia, and Philippines have own Disney feed for the country. Thailand and Indonesia is getting pure Disney Asia feed.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 25 2012, 01:44 PM

That's why should boikot assteruk and criticize SKMM kau-kau...

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 26 2012, 09:40 AM

Exactly. I agree with you on this 100%.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 26 2012, 12:01 PM

Too high. Hopes are high but rollout is nonexistent...

Fail!

This is why we don't want people like him running SKMM.

This censor, that censor.

*checks* nope, still haven't forgiven him implementing Internet censorship!

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: May 2 2012, 09:55 PM

If ABN launches. They've went quiet again...

I agree! Don't fall for assteruk's dirty tricks people!

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: May 7 2012, 10:54 AM

They can, but it requires that the decoder has satellite networking capability with enough bandwidth to stream HD. Assteruk's decoder cannot do that. IPTV? As long as assteruk is arrogant and won't let IPTV work on anything other than Time BB...

Actually, you can do on-demand using satellite using DVB-RCS and satellite networking (it's possible to deliver 20mbps HD IPTV over satellite too). Assteruk just too greedy for profit that they dun want to implement the infrastructure.

Right, but there's one problem with TM's IPTV (I refuse to call this HyppTV because HyppTV does not have all the channels the STB has) is that the rollout is too slow because of lousy contractors and TM being too shortsighted to see the need to rollout fast.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: May 8 2012, 04:26 AM

Never heard those rumors. But if it happens most likely it's TM being forced to cooperate with assteruk instead by idiot "rice"

Agreed.

Well, they do have some channels on radio that is worth listening (i.e. Classic Rock and Golden Oldies). But imo, those should be put on FM. If FM no place, AM also okay. Because Oldies and Classic Rock should be free like in Singapore.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: May 8 2012, 10:00 AM

Assteruk has always been breaking promises. As I mentioned before, an assteruk ex-engineer I've met once told me that assteruk has no rights to tamper with the incoming feed as it's a violation of the contracts with the providers. And yet assteruk censor MTV, censor news (BBC's anger was understandable, assteruk wasn't supposed to tamper with their feed as per the contract), advertisements injected into the signal, etc.

Assteruk has been playing dirty for years, and not only they're allowed to get away with it, they're practically given "protection" from competitors and given rights to monopolize channels (i.e. ensure channels they're carrying cannot be carried on competing networks) by the gomen. This has to stop.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: May 9 2012, 05:08 PM

Many factors can play a part in this, but by right signal from dish to decoder is digital, and for digital there's no such thing as subtle degradation quality- usually it's can get or cannot get only, and if it's poor connection the signal will fluctuate madly, so picture will be erratic.

Technically, there is no such thing as snow/noise, shadowing and wavy image in digital signal. However you can get intermittent errors like part of image didn't update, image corruption and audio squeak and squeals due to poor connection.

I'd advise checking to see if your power supply is stable, TV not near interference-generating equipment like Microwave Oven, Handphone, any motorized equipment or WiFi router, and making sure your TV is connected to decoder by HDMI and not analog (Baeyong doesn't output HD in Component anyway due to "analog sunset").

Use the satellite signal measurement meter on the decoder. If readout is lower than before, then you know something isn't right.

If you have Time BB in your area, yes. Otherwise, you're SOL.

Where in the Klang Valley? Puchong only? That isn't the whole of Klang Valley!

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: May 10 2012, 10:59 AM

Well, IMO, no, Assteruk is still comfortable. Unless fiber rollout speed is increased to rival that of Thailand (they manage to rollout fiber to cover whole nation in a matter of months! Here we are at the second year and it's still only many (not all) towns of West Peninsula Malaysia! Even Georgetown in Penang dun have, only Bayan Lepas!), Assteruk will still enjoy being in the lead. Also, from what I heard, due to some stupidity by TM some areas will never get fiber rollout (i.e. Industrial parks where internet usage is supposedly low. Nevermind that high-tech industries like R&D labs need blazing fast fiber HSBB to conduct business- it's like gomen is trying to discourage formation of high-tech industries).

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: May 11 2012, 10:52 AM

I actually once connected an assteruk decoder to a coil of unshielded cable (you know, cable meant to carry electricity) with a MegaTV pigtail antenna on the other end and it's signal bar started fluctuating so maybe it's a YMMV case.

Actually tho, it's quite possible to do that, but expect the signal bar to be not very high and intermittent signal lost problem with HD signal. Problem is antenna grade cable is slightly thinner than satellite grade cable, and thus prone to signal loss. Also, antenna grade cable is unshielded compared to satellite grade cable, means it's prone to picking up interference.



This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: May 13 2012, 01:51 PM