Astro SD is blur and not sharp. But I think when you see by yourself the SD picture quality of Indovision (pay tv from Indo), Truevision (pay tv from Thailand) and Skynet (pay tv from Myanmar), I think you'll take back your words... Their SD channels was totally way more blur than what Astro have. I've seen it by myself, right at my home. Although their SD channels was blur, but you have plenty of choice available, especially Indovision and well there are no 3-5 minutes censorship 'delay' at all. They take it straightly from the original feeds.

For better PQ astro has to migrate to MPEG4 and STOP compression.

may i know i can request to changed my new decoder again or nop? my new decoder just changed today after wait more than 23 days ...But now, that decoder only can received high band Lo Frequency signal, tat means only can view hd channel... sd channel all cannot get signal.. tat rubbish decoder also got many lines shown in my tv screen...


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They wan't to monopoly all...******* Astroll.

Something that I noticed on the new Samsung PVR STB.
Old Pace STB when I switch to digital sound, my primary tv using receiver will get Dolby sound while the secondary tv using AV cable will be silent (no sound). New samsung STB I can leaveit on digital and all connections still able to get sound. Awesome no more switching necessary .

For VOD, at first I always got connection error even after setting the wifi network but what I miss was to set the default cnnection type from ethernet to wireless. Now everything is fine.

i aint watching this crap ever since the songlap got 2 strong in the FAM

Could it be due to cable and the dish?

The AV output will only be set to output Analog signals no matter what. Meanwhile, HDMI port will only output PCM although you set it to DD5.1.
You can only get DD5.1 signals if you plug in optical cable or coaxial cable.

Bro are you sure,I thought HDMI brings both My situation once HDMI is used my coaxial is disabled,when I set my audio IN to HDMI on my AVR i get PCM/D.Digital when changed to audio in via coaxial there is disabled sound! I am not sure my cable problem,my box problem or is it that astro allows only one HDMI output and if you dont use HDMI audio is output via coaxial/optical

This post has been edited by smileguy: May 18 2014, 03:55 PM

So happy my Samsung PVR STB at last got updated to the latest V9 EPG! Yay! Is so smooth and responsive compared to the old version. Those who not yet get it I think you can spam the manual upgrade button combo!

My samsung pvr stb still stuck with the old epg. Nothing happen after force update.

downgrading any package (meaning u pay less than you current amount) will have an admin charge. around RM10 if not mistaken. upgrading is free.

I just got my epg today but my signal quality for tuner 1 increase to 201 but my tuner 2 only 135 previously 178/155 is tuner 2 important. Tq

Hi,
Just happened to find your posting here in lowyat when i google this 'HDCP copy protection failed.' My Astro connects to TV via a HDMI to a Yamaha Receiver. It has been working for more than a year, but suddenly I see this 'HDCP copy..................' on screen when I am in HD channels. So, what does it mean to you? Do you mean the 'HDCP stripper' in my Yamaha Receiver is broken? Advice is much appreciated...

I got my new firmware update after shorting the JTAG COM:2 with one of the processor pins. It just shorted out and rebooted. After that, the smart card cannot be read anymore. It just say invalid in system versions. I can access all the channels though.

my samsung pvr just got an update today. looks good.

How to change the pvr ip address? After the update I couldn't find any setting to modify the ip setting

Hi my astro decoder pace(non pvr) has been giving problems...HDCP Copy protection failed will occur randomly within a time period of a couple of hours....
i have another decoder same Pace non pvr with another acc. when i connect that decoder there is no such issue...
can astro provide a replacement for free preferably the samsung zapper decoder

This post has been edited by Raymond7693: May 23 2014, 07:28 PM

May I know how to force update Samsung Pace decoder?

Cause there is only one button on my decoder.

Yes, Astro provide lifetime warranty for byond decoders.


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