System upgrading and security enhancement operations,22nd to 24th!

This post has been edited by smileguy: Sep 22 2012, 11:51 AM

Month's ago...And currently:

TK0J4N, TK1J4N, TK2J4N, TK3J4N, TK4J4N, TK5J4N, TK6J4N, TK7J4N, TK8J4N (and probably TK9J4N) appear on certain channels in certain time....sometimes quite annoyed with that.

Astro wants to upgrade to MPEG4?

Dana IPO untuk platform teknologi, bayar hutang

KUALA LUMPUR 21 Sept. - Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd. (Astro Malaysia) akan menggunakan dana dari terbitan awam permulaannya (IPO) yang bernilai lebih dari RM4 bilion untuk platform teknologi dan menjelaskan hutang syarikat.

Ketua Pegawai Eksekutifnya, Datuk Rohana Rozhan berkata, sebanyak RM500 juta akan digunakan untuk pembayaran hutang dan selebihnya bagi platform teknologi mereka.

"Pada masa ini, sebanyak 1.6 juta pelanggan telah melanggan perkhidmatan 'byond' (perkhidmatan definisi tinggi HD) dan sebanyak 1.5 juta pelanggan masih belum bertukar kepada platform terbaru tersebut.

"Dana yang diperoleh akan digunakan untuk kos pertukaran platform tersebut, manakala sebanyak RM0.5 bilion bakal digunakan untuk membayar hutang," katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian pada sidang akhbar selepas majlis pelancaran prospektus Astro Malaysia di sini hari ini.

Prospektus tersebut dilancarkan oleh Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

Hadir sama pada sidang akhbar itu, Pengerusi Astro Malaysia, Tun Zaki Tun Azmi, Timbalan Pengerusi Eksekutif Astro Malaysia, Ralph Marshall, Ketua Pegawai Kewangannya, Ahmad Fuaad Mohd. Kenali, Ketua Eksekutif Kumpulan CIMB, Datuk Seri Nazir Razak dan Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Maybank Investment Bank Bhd., Tengku Datuk Zafrul Raja Abd. Aziz.

Depercayai hutang Astro Malaysia adalah sebanyak RM3.7 bilion berikutan pelaksanaan penstrukturan semula syarikat dan hutang yang dibuat sebelum ini.

Tambah Rohana, Astro Malaysia merancang untuk mengembangkan kapasiti salurannya selepas 2014 dan perancangan tersebut mengambil masa selama tiga tahun.

"Fokus kami adalah memberikan nilai terbaik kepada pelanggan terutama dari segi kandungan," jelasnya.

IPO Astro Malaysia melibatkan terbitan 1.518 bilion saham biasa, atau 29.9 peratus modal saham bagi saham diterbitkan dan berbayar biasa syarikat.

Ia terdiri daripada 474.3 juta saham biasa baharu dan tawaran jualan sehingga 1.044 bilion saham sedia ada.

Tawaran institusi pula adalah sehingga 1.258 bilion yang mewakili 24.2 peratus modal saham dan tawaran runcit sebanyak 259.865 juta saham yang mewakili 5.0 peratus modal saham.

Harga indikatif tawaran runcit adalah RM3.00 sesaham.

Antara pelabur utama ialah Permodalan Nasional Bhd. (PNB), Standard Pacific Capital, Great Eastern Life Assurance, CorstonSmith Asset Management, Nomura Asset Management dan Universities Superannuation Scheme yang telah bersetuju untuk melanggan 430 juta saham.

CIMB Investment Bank Bhd.adalah pengurus transaksi.

Manakala CIMB, Maybank Investment Bank Bhd.dan RHB Investment Bhd.merupakan penasihat prinsipal bersama.

Penyelaras global bersama adalah CIMB, Credit Suisse (Singapore) Ltd.,Goldman Sachs (Singapore) Pte., J. P Morgan Securities plc, Maybank Investment (cawangan Singapura) dan UBS AG.

Astro Malaysia dijangka disenaraikan pada 19 Oktober hadapan.

Source: http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/Ekonomi/20...gi-bayar-hutang

This post has been edited by lpsoldier007: Sep 22 2012, 12:33 PM

100% MPEG4 pada 2015, itu yang pasti...

This post has been edited by Qash-M: Sep 22 2012, 12:39 PM

haha i also just noticed y i suddenly got CHINESE PACKAGE ENABLED after yesterday just found out the CELESTIAL HD got disabled

haha i want 2 know the same also

Unifii wl come to my area in 2015 too 1.6 million hv beyond not HD service thats bullshit!

Free up all channel till when? Lol

Is thee free channel due to IPO?

Seems like BabyTV is better to be watched in 4:3 stretch mode...

I wonder how many would subscribe to BabyTV..

Hi all.. got a question, how to remove " Copy protection fail " black label ? Im currently subscribing Astro Byond HD ...
Thanks

This message is caused by any equipment which are not HDCP ready or compliant. HDCP stands for High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection which prevents non-HDCP compliant HDMI equipment from showing any video. The equipment with HDMI connection include the HDTV, Satellite Receiver/Decoder box (Byond), HDMI Splitters, HDMI Switchers, HDMI Signal Booster, Video Capture Card with HDMI input, and so forth.

The Astro satellite transmission for the HD channels IS protected with HDCP. Other satellite broadcasters, including BSkyB, DTV, BBC also have HDCP for their HD channels. Only the HDMI connections have HDCP for HD channels, ... NOT present for RCA (yellow cable) and component video (red, green, blue) connections for SD resolutions.

Obviously your HDTV and the Byond box IS already HDCP compliant so I believe your problem could be caused by adding "non-HDCP equipment" between your HDTV and Byond Box connections. Even the branded AV Receiver Amps (such as from Denon, Yamaha, Onkyo, Marantz) with HDMI input/output are also HDCP compliant.

You did not mention any details about your HDMI or whatever connections for your Byond box BUT I do believe that you have added "HDMI switch or HDMI splitter" or some similar non-HDCP equipment to your Byond Box connections !! That being the case... the only solution is to replace the "equipment" with one that is HDCP compliant... and IF cannot find one which is HDCP compliant, then too bad.

IF you intend to use HDMI connection from Byond to a computer with HD Video Capture card to record the Astro TV channels, then you need to find an HD Video Capture card which is HDCP compliant. For this purpose, I am not able to find one HDMI video capture card which is HDCP compliant. There have been some discussions about this in the older "Astro B.yond Episode IV (Version 9.0) thread which also mentioned about "HD Fury" card and also about a method which used a Video Capture box which converts the HDMI signal to output as Component Video and PCM Stereo Audio. Too complicated for me to explain here so if this is your situation, then you should take some time to refer back to the older Astro Episode IV thread and search there.

For reference only so here are some general info on HDCP...
http://www.digitalconnection.com/faq/HDTV_12.asp
http://tv.about.com/od/hdtv/p/whatisHDCP.htm

You can also read from this link...
http://stinkyfruit.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/hdmi-and-dolby-5-1/
...and read the paragraph starting from "A last word from Sheikh. The main importance in acquiring equipment would be to determine whether the system is HDMI 1.3 and HDCP compliant"



This post has been edited by jamesleetech: Sep 22 2012, 09:10 PM

alamak, they unlocked AOD but not unlocking any Astro Best channels

thought can catch a movie or two for free..though already got the BD rip for some of the titles

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Added on September 22, 2012, 9:53 pmrecord also no use, the recorded shows will be auto deleted once they lock back the channels

This post has been edited by PhakFuhZai: Sep 22 2012, 09:53 PM

No wo. Still got BIO program recorded in the PVR even though didn't suscribe to Metro.

Astro: Money talks-mah...

This post has been edited by Qash-M: Sep 22 2012, 10:08 PM

Well, if they dun charge people for HD, surely there'll be more people considering it. Paying RM20 just to enable the HDMI port is real stupid.

HD Fury is not a card. It's a dongle that allows older HDTVs with no HDMI input (i.e. those with only VGA and Component input like those China brand LCD HDTVs) to enjoy HD output. That's all I'm going to say

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Sep 22 2012, 10:44 PM

Only in Malaysia. You don't find the same thing elsewhere in the world.

Not true.... try it and you will know why we record them.

i dun have PVR le

thesedays in certain channels got show certain codes with few characters and numbers, the same code as in those olympics and EURO channels back then

wonder what are the purposes of those thing

haha dont know...better enjoy it while it lasts