Is the fee to install the Byond PVR still RM150? I thought that was promotional price until September only. If still RM150? Im thinking of getting it and take up SuperPack

I think Astro cant do anything much unless they lease transponders cos I think they got no more space,or maybe they start compressing further!

LOL.. not really sarcasm la bro.. I mean.. why wait for IPTV assteruk to come esp for landed residential, when satellite is already available nationwide... I mean if he really wants to subscribe, can start with satellite first, once IPTV available, go for it =p. And oh well, rain fade is yet again a problem they couldn't solve, of course unless gov approve bigger dish =D, by then we all benefit lol

but if im not mistaken... its only rm30 cheaper for astro packages..

what channels are you into anyway?

Smileguy, my thanks for bringing this "fascinating" news here.

I really wonder what tycoon Ananda is trying to say.

If I was the reporter who interviewed him for that story, I would have asked him many questions that would make him look stupid for such comments !

Below should be the type of questions and comments that I would express to him...

First and foremost... remember the old days when wooden telephone poles was used to hang phone cables so... does he know how long it took for Telekom to install this infrastructure to the whole nation ? How many years did many small towns in Malaysia have to wait just to have phone service ?

After many years, does Ananda know how long it took for towns nationwide to change to underground phone cables? Even today, some small towns still use phone poles. The phone infrastructure was progressively changed by Telekom from phone poles to underground phone cables which took many many years to complete nationwide.

Where did Ananda get the actual statistics to comment that "Satellite TV is dying" ?

He should be the first person to know that installing the full infrastructure to use underground fiber cables is much much more expensive because of costs of the fiber cables, ports and routers, distributors, etc. Note: I am referring to the underground fiber cables outside our homes, internal wiring in our homes don't use fiber cables.

Each fiber cable for IPTV is limited to a number of users it can support. So the IPTV providers have to estimate how many cables to lay underground that is enough for future demand. It cost money to dig again to add more cables.

Although the full infrastructure for Satellite TV/Radio cost billions of ringgit, its coverage is immediately available nationwide... and don't depend on the population size in any towns or location areas. IPTV or Cable TV companies will have to survey first and then decide whether its commercially possible to provide underground fiber cables for small towns with small population, such as 50,000 residents in a small town. I really think these companies will NEVER install the expensive fiber cables to small kampungs (with only a few hundred people in each kampung and these kampungs are spread in a large area) ! In the case of Satellite TV, there is no such "decision" to make because its completely not necessary. Just go to any kampung home, install the Sat decoder+dish and thats it !

Even in advanced countries such as USA, NOT ALL towns, townships, suburbs in their entire vast country have Cable TV or IPTV ! I know this as a fact. All of us do know just how BIG the USA is ! Yes, I agree that IPTV and Cable TV is readily available now in many cities in US but it will never be possible to cover the entire US nationwide. This is where Satellite TV plays such an important role because its readily available to a very large area that each satellite is located in the "sky above".

So I must really criticise Ananda because I truly wonder just where he got this nonsense and absolute crap that he stupidly believe that "Satellite TV is dying". There is a chance that I could be wrong BUT if Ananda is right in front of me now, I will still challenge him to prove to me with evidence and actual statistics that support his stupid opinion that Sat TV is dying !

Of course everyone wants IPTV or Cable TV. Who doesn't ? Of course I WANT IT !!! As I have mentioned many times before, will it be possible and how long do we have to wait for IPTV or Cable TV to be available nationwide? I know no one suggested it but it will be very stupid to suggest stopping Satellite TV right now, and put the people in the whole nation in limbo who then stupidly wait for many many unknown years for something that may never come for many rakyat in smaller towns !

If anyone here feels whatever I have mentioned here is not correct, I will not be offended and don't mind if anyone corrected me, hehe.

My apologies to smileguy... for my "heated" reply here. I mean no offense to you. I am NOT pointing my sarcasms and criticisms at you but directed at Ananda for his rather careless and stupid statement. OMG ! 

Hehe... you are assuming that Ananda took example from Singapore. Its ok for expressing your thoughts.

Singapore is a small island country so definitely its so much easier to build the necessary infrastructure for Cable TV and IPTV. The situation is very different for countries with a much much larger area such as Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. As I have mentioned before, there are various difficulties and reasons why Cable TV and IPTV may not be possible for nationwide coverage.

If Ananda wish to use example, he can also choose Liechtenstein, which is one of the smallest country in the world with only 62 sq. miles of about 34,000 population which is located on the Rhine River between Switzerland and Austria in the Alps. It will be much much much more easier to start Cable TV and IPTV there, LOL !

It will also be ridiculous and very stupid IF Ananda compare Malaysia with Singapore. I will also mention the same reasons as I have stated in my earlier post !

yah same here i also received email he also say FDC We are currently unable to give better estimation time. they wont tell when available my area 

rm150? not RM100?

If you are a new subscriber, you will find out later why there are many complains pointing at Astro. These are generally the repeats and repeats and repeats of programs.... too many lousy channels and not having enough good ones... rain interruptions. You have the right to decide... continue with Astro... OR cancel later and forget about Astro if you don't like it... OR move to others such as IPTV or Cable TV if you are lucky that its available in your location... OR forget about Satellite/Cable TV and go back to traditional TV aerial. Whether right or wrong decision, I will not comment and will respect whatever you choose because you have your personal opinions and reasons.

Off notes: Sesiapa yg pkai Unifi tgk ch.114 TV Al-Hijrah. I heard it's in widescreen 16:9, although not HD.

Exactly, asstro wl not launch any channels in the near future,nor wl switch to MPEG4,but compress to squeeze UEFA/OLYMPICS,yes! asstro wl do all possible to control sports,RISE's sharing content wl not change anything

Atleast you can listen to it, even if Astro "potong" your bill.

ART/ABO/AOD and FIRST are really bandwidth sucking channels... if they had on demand style like unifi... they wont need all these rubbish channel... but too bad their on demand iptv is really shitty... and with tm having jeremy kung developing iptv... all i can say is... its a pin to astro's iptv grave... he was the one who developed hong kong's now tv...

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.