New thing will coming soon.
If first HD fta channel. Will be good.
But MYTV coverage still limited area.

yerp , cant wait for it

yeah what happen to the so called channel 124 Astro Warna HD??

tarak jadi kah??

Astro get Chinese movies from Star Chinese Movies (SCM) On Demand and then air it on Astro Mustika HD??
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I thought Astro got some strategic partnership with Celestial Tiger Entertainment, where Astro has own Malaysia feed of Celestial Movies, isn't?
Why is Astro doing that???? Take Chinese movies from another channel, and then air it on Malay HD channel? LOL
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By the way, the Hong Kong movie airing now on Mustika HD (as seen on screenshot) is "Royal Tramp"

Lol now Mustika HD become "rojak" channel with multiple language content

Some are in native 16:9 (no conversion), some are in "16:9" (stretched)

That remind me that KBS World, Star World & Cartoon Network not in properly 4:3 aspect ratio..

Fyi, to keep up-to-date. Star World(CH711) no longer in crappy aspect ratio. Now available in 16:9 feed with windowbox. You need to "LB Expand" to get 16:9 aspect ratio same like AFC channel..

Well, atleast Star World on astro have HD feed on ch722. But for AFC channel till today astro not give HD feed for it. Low viewership ke?..

Sea games channels is open to all b.yond subscribers
And it's on HD too..

Hmm if uses Measat, then we cannot expect cheap pricing.. Sure the owners will charge higher fee for Ansa broadcasting since is related to astro

For a commercial satellite company (not referring to satellite pay TV provider) to have a dedicated satellite beam for a particular country, basically it will cost higher.
There are several other commercial satellite companies out there, provide satellite bandwidth/service where the coverage "sekali gus" covers a particular region, not by specific country or countries like Measat do. This helps to save costs to both satellite company and the client who wants to lease satellite capacity from them.

So that means, if Ansa Broadcast pick a satellite where coverage footprint covers mainly only Malaysia (just like Astro), it will cost higher for them to use that satellite lo. BUT, does that makes this one of an expensive option for Ansa, even if it is a Malaysian company? I don't know. If they find that their "budget" not so much and not want to spend so much on leasing satellite capacity yet, here are the potential choices for Ansa Broadcast to choose which satellite to provide the service:

Satellite dish position: WEST (any satellites that is before 100 °E, satellite dish position will face towards west in Peninsular Malaysia)

A) ABS 2/2A at 75 °E

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ABS 2 SEA & South Korea beam

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ABS 2A SEA Beam

Source: ABS Satellite

B) Measat 3/3a/3b at 91.5° E
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Measat 3b Malaysia beam

This one you know la, same satellite as Astro. No need to explain further.

C) Asiasat 5 at 100.5° E
This satellite beam has been left unused since one of Indonesia satellite TV provider, Viva+ has ceased operations years ago.
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Indonesia steerable Ku band beam
You can clearly see that it covers entire Malaysia although it is once meant for Indonesia.

However, Asiasat 5 has 14 Ku band transponders and currently being used for one of India pay TV service (used 4 transponders, according to Lyngsat) as well as satellite broadband services by other countries. I am not sure how many Ku band transponders left in this satellite, but I guess it is not much. If the remaining transponders is not much for this satellite, Ansa may not consider this satellite because they may not have the capacity to offer a lot of channels (especially HD) in the long term.

Source: Asiasat

Satellite dish position: EAST (any satellites that is after 100 °E, satellite dish position will face towards east in Peninsular Malaysia)
D) SES 9 at 108 °E
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SEA beam

Although the beam seems to mainly focused on West Indonesia, but it is still receivable with strong/adequate signal in Malaysia.

Source: SES
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These are the satellites that I am not so sure if it is possible cuz I don't have much info about it, which are Chinasat 11 (98 °E) (Steerable beam) and Apstar 9 (142 °E) (Steerable beam).
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Chinasat 11 Steerable beam
Source: Satbeams

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Apstar 9 Steerable beam
Source: APSTAR

Steerable beam is where the satellite footprint coverage can be relocated to any different region within boundary limit (yeah they can move anytime they like, of course dependant on demand/request, not suka suka move). The ones that are not steerable beam means the footprint coverage are fixed and cannot be relocated, change, or modified.

As you can see, both steerable beam for Chinasat 11 and Apstar 9 seems to cover countries of northern part of South East Asia like Thailand, Laos, Myanmar all those. The thing is, I am not sure if any of those countries mentioned, or even any other countries outside steerable beam area you see on picture may be using it already? So, for that, I have no idea.
Asiasat 5's Indonesia steerable beam also possible that it has been relocated to other place to offer service to the region, that one I am also not sure. But I think, is no la...

So in conclusion, the high chance for Ansa to choose which satellites other than Measat (91.5 °E) would be either ABS 2/2a (75° E), or SES 9 (108 °E).

If Ansa Broadcast tend to "anti-Measat" because of Astro and those commercial satellites mentioned above doesn't seems to satisfy Ansa's needs to provide the service, then launch new satellite oh, which is even more $$$...

True also. But the elevation of the satellite dish won't be "very low/down" also la... It's just slightly lower. If unlucky get blocked by obstacles like trees or building, then you got to relocate dish to somewhere else free from obstruction. This is common in other countries too, especially different pay TV providers offer services in different satellite.

Dish HD is Taiwan Satellite Pay TV provider?
Because, when i check SES 9 in lyngsat page. It show Dish HD channel is using HEVC/H.265 codec. Must be rich & advanced company...

some SD channels are now in 16:9? despite the OSD showing 4:3

eg. all Media Prima channels, no more stretched-up feeling like before, although  OSD shows as 4:3 and they still let you toggle between 4:3 and 16:9

another example would be NHK, however this one is recognized as 16:9 and won't allow to toggle between 4:3

Wait..
Not media prima channels are in 16:9 broadcast nowadays???

the myfreeview and astro platform still output in 4:3

The video itself is 4:3 video format, but the content is 16:9.

Imagine, your video supposed to be rectangle (16:9), but you squeeze it to square (4:3).
In other words, 16:9 content on a 4:3 video, but without leterrbox, fit to screen.

But then, not every content you see on Media Prima channels now are "fit to screen" without letterbox.
Advertisements and certain TV shows aired on Media Prima channels still shows letterbox and in native 4:3 format.

Of course la basic.
Even, Astro start back in 1996 only offer 5-10 channel only.

This Ansa, maybe will start with 15-20 channel first. Don't care. Still better than only have FTA channel till today like MYTV..

The things is, what SD & HD channel they want to offer? If they just offer SD channel. Then, Ansa will lost customer. Why? People will say, still have people watching SD channel. Oh, my eyes hurt. I need HD quality for better watching experience.

What we need is Ansa to focus on entertainment & Malay channel. Don't focus for Sports content. If not customer need to pay high fee for this sports price that getting price hike every year. Like many forumer here say, Malay like Malay program. Just, why not Ansa launch Ansa Ria for Malay show.

This tactic is same like HyppTV Sensasi & Inspirasi channel. Guess that channel have many viewers like Astro Ria. Of course, Astro have all rights for Malay content. Some biased, not so popular is on HyppTV.

And, the channel offering maybe will look like rubbish channel. But, all we need to know first is Ansa use what satelite? How many channel offer? Good or not? Will have Dolby 5.1? Dolby sound maybe not. Don't have still okay. We just want to watch only.