astro family pack rm42.35 get Maya HD?

Those pay TV channels you see from various satellites like Measat and Asiasat, are not meant for us to watch "illegally for free", you know? It is the source for pay TV providers to get the channel, to be offered to the customers.

Why it is possible for us to open Powervu channels from Measat, and some other satellites, is because the Powervu encryption itself has been compromised, hence enabling newer consumer-level satellite receivers able to decrypt/open Powervu channels and watch it like a normal TV channel, for free, as long the Powervu keys are entered correctly. So far, this 2 leading encryption systems used by broadcasters, Powervu and Tandberg (aka "Director") has been compromised, and you can say that it is because this 2 encryption doesn't use smart card to decrypt channels, resulting an easier way for the professional crackers to crack open the channels.

Those widely used ones like Irdeto, Videoguard, Conax, etc. requires smart card to decrypt (just like Astro) in the proper way. For example,  Irdeto are commonly used by Fox Networks Group channels such as National Geographic, Star World, Fox Movies, etc.
Unless you got the access to the smart card that needed to open those original feed channels such as from C band satellites, which only pay TV providers has it, there's no way you can watch it on your own. How about card sharing (cline)? The owner still need to have the smart card (that only pay TV providers and broadcasters have) to decrypt the channels. So still, you can't watch it.

It is a common thing for pay TV all around the world to somewhat lower the bitrate till the point they prefer, before deliver the channels to customers. The bitrate they chose, are depending on the capability for them to deliver the channels to customers. E.g. If their satellite transponders bandwidth are limited, they need to lower the bitrate a little bit to make sure it has enough room to accommodate other or new channels in the future. There are technical things that is scarce or limited for them, and we as customers, we don't know what is it. And sometimes, high in bitrate may make some of the technical things inefficient. That's why pay TV won't offer 100% original video quality from source, but they'll make sure majority of the customers are satisfied with the HD picture quality by not lower the quality too much.

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Why Malaysia is one of the countries in the world that ban the private use of parabolic dishes? Why our very good gov try to restrict people of the alternative ways to watch TV content? Because if they made parabolic dishes legal, we can freely watch TV channels from other satellites that we like to aim at, meanwhile our gov cannot control what we're able to watch from other satellites which is "out of their control/league", our gov is "afraid" that if many people watch TV from C band, no much ppl will subscribe to Astro to watch nice programmes already lo.

So, they can make sure all (if not, almost all) of the people will go to the "proper" way to watch good TV channels in the country, and that is..... subscribe to pay TV services like Astro. Of course, this context may not be effective today, because we can get lots of alternative content from Internet. Despite Internet, Astro still earn a lot of money.

In the news, gov will say those ridiculous statements (especially Utusan Malaysia) of watching TV through parabolic dishes, the TV content are not censored and contains pornography, hence causes negative impacts to Malaysians. FYI, you won't see pornography channels via satellite, and if you do, it is encrypted and it won't be made free-to-air. As for censorship, different country has different censorship rules and regulations. And how is our Malaysian censorship board look like? Take HBO Malaysia and HBO Asia as the reference, which we already discussed about it previously. So how can they simply compare censorship implied by other countries with our country, like comparing apple and apple? To scare off Malaysians, parabolic dishes are made illegal and...
As far as I know, they can seize your equipment because you install parabolic dish with the excuse that these non-compliant equipment are not approved by MCMC or SIRIM (unless it is supplied by Astro). So, there are no "proper, explicit law" that ban the private use of parabolic dishes in Malaysia. Correct me if I'm wrong.

But then if you wonder, why Sarawak is somewhat, the only state in Malaysia where parabolic dishes are "legal"? Sarawakians can enjoy unofficial freedom to install parabolic dishes as they please, and since many Sarawak people are poor and many of them not willing to pay Astro every month, you can say that they put Sarawak an "unofficial exception" to this case, and also some other political reasons. So in that case, our gov won't put Sarawak as the "main source" of income for Astro already lor...

In conclusion, it is believed that our gov may be investing "some money" to Astro, where if Astro earn lots of money, some of the profits may go to the gov's pocket. So yeah, you can say that the money you pay monthly to Astro, some of the portion may go in to our Jibby's wallet. To maximise profits, gov ban private use of parabolic dishes, so that ppl gt no choice but to subscribe Astro to watch nice channels (in a legal way for the country), and then make them the only DTH provider in Malaysia (monopoly), and gov won't kacau Astro on how Astro treat customers by increasing package prices while giving lots of excuses, and also poor customer service but then, Astro excels in billing (if you know what I mean). So, this is called, crony.
Hope my explanation helps you to understand more on what's happening in the pay TV market in Malaysia.

Maya HD is "free" channel for those with B.yond decoder
Even if not subscribe to HD services

that true?
bcoz i look at astro web,Maya HD must add hd service
plan to subscrib Astro. now study about package

that true?
bcoz i look at astro web,Maya HD must add hd service
plan to subscrib Astro. now study about package

Hmm... so dirty tactic.
In the coming new player that want to invest all their money to this thing. I afraid that people still choose Astro because wide selection of good channel & more interesting show.

And also, if they introduce very little channel like 27 SD & 5 HD channel for the first time launch in Malaysia soon? Will people like it?

Like Astro when first launch. They not have 1++ of channel to offer back then.

that true?
bcoz i look at astro web,Maya HD must add hd service
plan to subscrib Astro. now study about package

Guys, want to ask if anyone got video cutting out problems, mainly on HD channels?

My family's Astro Byond when watch HD channels video will cut out very badly. Cuts out every few second or a few times a minute. And they cut out for more than 1-3 seconds but the audio will still play fine.
If we change to SD channels not HD it doesn't cut out as badly. It does cut out but the frequency lower maybe once every minute or every other minute so it's not too noticeable.

I have a suspicion there might be something wrong with the F type termination on the coax cable. It is the screw on type and when I unscrew it I can see some green-ish oxidization on the copper shielding strands. Last time it happened I screwed the jack tighter on the cable and it was ok for a while.

So it is confirmed.
Bye Star World Asia.
No more STAR English channels in Asia

New name.
New look.
Same content?

Btw, HyppTV has upgrade Al Jazeera to HD quality.
Now HyppTV have Al Jazeera HD. Meanwhile, astro still crap with Sky News HD(available free to watch in YouTube)...

Btw, me not watching news channel at all...

New name.
New look.
Same content?

Btw, HyppTV has upgrade Al Jazeera to HD quality.
Now HyppTV have Al Jazeera HD. Meanwhile, astro still crap with Sky News HD(available free to watch in YouTube)...

Btw, me not watching news channel at all...

No use subscribing to astro news package..
We can get better one online..
The basic Awani channel news is just okay.. Watchable I would say...

Agreed. There got Bloomberg, Euronews, Al Jazeera on Youtube. It is HD and live. If you got interest in Mandarin news, there got HD news from China and Taiwan.

New name.
New look.
Same content?

Btw, HyppTV has upgrade Al Jazeera to HD quality.
Now HyppTV have Al Jazeera HD. Meanwhile, astro still crap with Sky News HD(available free to watch in YouTube)...

Btw, me not watching news channel at all...