http://www.mumbrella.asia/2014/12/starhub-...el-astro-warna/    so here we go  except for chinese all other in House channels are sold out to spore,let them get the taste of repeats after repeats!

For the third quarter ended Oct 31, 2014 (Q3), net profit fell 9% year-on-year to RM113.3 million and for the nine months ended Oct 31, 2014, net profit improved 13% year-on-year to RM379.4 million, which represents 67% of Maybank IB's full-year estimate.

"The shortfall was due to higher-than-expected overheads. Peculiarly, the number of Pay-TV subscribers actually eased 5,000 quarter-on-quarter and the number of high-yielding Super Pack subscribers eased 1,000 quarter-on-quarter due to weak consumer sentiment.

"If memory serves us correctly, this is the first time in history that the number of Pay-TV and Super Pack subscribers declined quarter-on-quarter. While Astro intends to extract more from high net worth subscribers, the statistics above suggest to us that it may not succeed," it said.

Based on Q3 results, Maybank IB assumes lower net Pay-TV additions, lower take-up of HD and Super Pack products, lower average revenue per user (ARPU) in the financial year but higher ARPU in the next two financial years due to the HD price hike and 2ppts lower earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) margins due to higher overheads.

The research house trimmed its earnings estimates by 10%, 4% and 10% for the current and next two financial years respectively. It also reduced its target price by 3% to RM3.20 from RM3.30 but maintained its hold call on the stock.
MIDF Research has also reduced its FY15 and FY16 earnings estimates by 4.2% and 3.7% respectively based on the lower-than-expected earnings.

"We assumed slower net adds growth primarily in the Pay-TV households segment in view of the weak consumer sentiments. Also, we trimmed our Ebitda margin assumption. In addition, our dividend payout forecasts for FY15 and FY16 were also reduced by 10% and 20% to 9 sen and 10 sen respectively," it said in a report last Friday.

MIDF maintained its neutral call on the stock, with a revised target price of RM3.60 from RM3.75 previously.

"We are concerned with the slower net adds from the Pay-TV segments. Despite strong growth from the NJOI segments, the NJOI households only made up less than 20% of Astro's subscriber base. This could signal a slower growth momentum in Astro's subscriber base in the foreseeable term," it added.

Affin Hwang Investment Bank Bhd expects the market environment to be more challenging for Astro going forward, due to the lower Pay-TV net adds and higher costs thus cutting its FY15-17E core earnings per share (EPS) forecasts by 5% to 9%.

Does anyone has issue paying Astro bill via Astro own online portal using CC these few days ?

ASTRO IS FINALLY FEELING THE HIT. THEY THOUGHT INCREASING THE FEES WON'T BACKFIRE?

Good news!!!! As the malay proverb goes sepandai tupai melompat.......! With the GST coming soon the Rakyat are going to be badly hit and paytv wl be badly hit,even for me I will cut asstro first which wl save me more then RM100. Our paytv is very expensive given repacked and home made channels ,almost all channels have astro's hands in them so we hardly get many original channels. Take malay and Indian Value pax,what is there for RM80 ,the channels are less then  RM50 worth!Then comes the unjustified HD and PVR fee of RM30! Let them feel the heat and wake up from their sound sleep since 1995  

I agree. Im also thinking of cutting my astro next year if things starting to get tough but the only thing i will miss are the live BPL matches in HD. The rest i can get it online.

Malaysian government has intended to launch an English news channel to broadcast news about Malaysia to the world. However, the ministry has indicated that they have no plans to launch an English news channel in Malaysia.

“If we want to bring Malaysia to the world, there it should be in a language which people can easily understand us — which is English,” said Ahmad Shabery Cheek, Minister of Communication and Multimedia. ”However, there is no plans to have an all English news channel in English in the country,” he added.

The Communication and Multimedia ministry has announced its plans to establish a 24/7 Bahasa Malaysia news channel through Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) after the completion of digitisation.

For free preview for Superpack+ for Superpack customer,

Does your Zapper Byond decoder get this preview or no ?

My case, subscribed to superpack 1 and multiroom...

my primary decoder is PVR, yes, get free preview...

secondary decoder is zapper, NO free preview !! just get that 10 channels recently introduced only for free preview.....

i called astro, they said, it's only for PVR only.. Zapper cannot.. ??? 

can anybody with Zapper byond decoder and subscribed to Superpack confirm this ??

the astro customer service attended me didnt sound so convincing in her explanation... 

free preview on which channel?

Hi all, I wondering why i keep failed to sign up AstroID at astro website?

Keep showing me the "Error. Invalid IDNo", I already fulfilled the ID Creation criteria (* Your Astro ID should be alphanumeric, between 8 to 30 characters) ...

For free preview for Superpack+ for Superpack customer,

Does your Zapper Byond decoder get this preview or no ?

My case, subscribed to superpack 1 and multiroom...

my primary decoder is PVR, yes, get free preview...

secondary decoder is zapper, NO free preview !! just get that 10 channels recently introduced only for free preview.....

i called astro, they said, it's only for PVR only.. Zapper cannot.. ??? 

can anybody with Zapper byond decoder and subscribed to Superpack confirm this ??

the astro customer service attended me didnt sound so convincing in her explanation... 

Mine lagi weird. I'm on superpack 3. Get to watch all the other channel eg mustika pack channel but I can't watch the metro pack channel.