Third? As recently only two is known: LI & Kah lai Toi...

But I didn't saw this anime in astro go.
maybe few days later to release?
[another aniplus series pikataro lullaby also not in the astro go list.]

I guess Go Shop Channel 120 is the SD version of Go Shop HD Channel 118.

What makes you think that Astro is somewhat, rushing all customers to upgrade to B.yond boxes?
There are many customers out there where their legacy STBs still works fine. For them, there's no solid reason to upgrade, except the fact that the STB is newer design, UI is nicer, it supports HD and other services, which not every customers are interested in. Plus, adding a 12 months contract is not something that every customer likes.
Astro will always find ways to earn more and more money. Who doesn't want to earn more money? Even if you monopolised a market and you are already a billionaire, they are still being greedy and still want to earn more money. Astro won't likely to do something for free to customer unless it is beneficial to them. They can earn more money by imposing installation fee of course. Astro would be like "You think B.yond box are free? We'll charge you for that. At least let customers who still using legacy boxes to continue using it, until it spoils for whatever reason we don't care, then we'll replace them with B.yond box. Otherwise, many customers will bising, think that "using B.yond box" equivalent to add more more money in the subscription fee because of the HD service.

There's no reason to wonder "why this why that" for Astro, cuz the answer is all about money. You do business for what? Of course earn money lor.

Well, Astro PVR box does have 500GB hard disk built-in, where you can record 100 hours HD content or 290 hours SD content.
Video bitrate for MPEG 4 video codec are usually variable, meaning it keeps on fluctuating, and it is not constantly same bitrate all the time. Average is 5Mbps, but depending on the scene, it can go around 6-7Mbps or even spike over 10Mbps especially in fast moving scenes, or even as low as 1-2Mbps if the scene does not move much. This is pretty much the nature of variable bitrate video.

Besides video bitrate, don't forget the audio as well. Astro uses HE-AAC 64kbps for Stereo track while AC3 (Dolby) 384kbps for Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound track for HD channel, while MP2 192kbps for MPEG2 SD channel. And yet, some channels even have multiple audio tracks, which add up even more bandwidth used.

already gone 

and there's NO replacement channels

Malaysia merupakan negara yang sedang melonjak naik dalam arena digital. Baik dari segi kadar pemilikan peranti pintar, dan juga kadar penembusan internet seluruh negara, apa sahaja berkaitan digital, Malaysia antara pelopor utama dunia digital. Namun begitu disebalik faktor ini, Malaysia juga merupakan negara ke 8 di Asia yang kerap melayari halaman menyediakan kandungan cetak rompak.

Yep. Ashthrow's fakin' it to the MAX!
Not like us where we have 'Asli HD'. 

Okay. No wonder I don't see the so called black bars at left & right..
Maybe all because I set to 16:9 views

So how to see the black bars?? What setting I needed to do??

What 21:9 or "Only Scan" mode view are you talking about? Could you tell us where did you get such info??? 21:9 is an aspect ratio for anamorphic format TV or monitors, which is designed to give users a full screen experience when viewing anamorphic format content, or more viewing content in a single screen.
The small, blurry black pixels on the left/right side of the screen is known as nominal analogue blanking, and it is not mainly related to aspect ratio stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_analogue_blanking
That one involves in very deep technical stuff involving old analogue video technologies that somewhat shaped the digital video today. As of now, I still don't fully understand the entire story behind that "blanking" in the sides of the screen that we all see in some Astro channels today.

One of the example that Astro still has that "nominal analogue blanking" is MTV channel. Take a closer look at the sides of this screenshot. As you can see, there's a "blank pixels" at both left and right sides of this 4:3 video.

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If your HDTV is displaying 100% image and let say you tune to MTV channel on Astro, this is what you will see: (look at left and right side of this picture)

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But honestly, I'm not sure why Astro wasn't aware about that, or they aware about it but they don't care? I don't know. But, this nominal analogue blanking only occurs to some SD 4:3 channels only, not all like that. But I believe this can be eliminated if Astro's broadcast technical team to properly set the video settings.

I'm not so interested about that nominal analogue blanking because for me, it is something commonly seen in old tech stuffs. For example you might see that blanking in some old VCDs movies that you still keep (some DVDs also got). Cuz older TVs like CRT TVs and older LCD TVs tends to overscan the image a little bit, so very unlikely you won't be see that blanking, but if you play it on today's modern TVs where it is now commonly display 100% image, then you might see that blanking pixels on the sides.

That "blanking" may not be visible if your TV overscan the overall image. Overscan is where your TV tends to zoom/crop in entire picture by 5-10%, so that means you are seeing less picture detail/information (I mean "detail" is, you tend to see lesser things compared to other people's TV that do not overscan and display 100%, not the sharpness detail ya). When it overscans, you are be actually seeing only 90-95% of the entire picture, not 100%. Newer or latest TVs usually don't overscan and displays 100%, but however some TVs do provide option to display 100% image without overscan and different TVs may indicate the setting name differently, such as turning "Overscan" as On or Off, or "Image size" as 100%, or change your TV display mode to Game mode.

You may search Google to know more about overscan.
Please note that this overscan/underscan is about your TV set, and it is not related to aspect ratio or even Astro.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan

Ohh... I guess you must be using Philips's Cinema 21:9 TV, am I right?
Philips already discontinued that, and no more releasing new models due to lack of demand.

Guys
Did u all watch Asia got talent on AXN HD channels today??

Seems like the picture pixelated... When change to AXN SD 701, its okay...

Wonder why suddenly like that

haha took me 15 years 2 finally get out of the leaving the PC overnight culture already

I think needed to wait ano 10 years
Very slow in action.. Typically Bolehland style...

Because the costs of laying fibre cables and infrastructure are very high, so it is why TM prioritise on laying fibre cables to those urban areas first.

Sometimes laying fibre cables may be difficult in terms of costs and difficulties. For example, if they got to lay cables from the nearest "main fibre distribution point" to a small village areas where population isn't high, considering the long distance, the irregular terrains (a lot of hills), etc., eventually it makes the costs of laying fibre cables to be inefficient and expensive. This is also why it seems to take forever for Unifi to be made available in those areas.

In some rural places where the main fibre distribution point is too far away, TM will use high speed wireless backhaul for its ADSL service, Streamyx, rather than fibre-backhaul-to-copper. This is also why some areas where Streamyx only support 1Mbps, or 4Mbps max.

If you say bcuz they dont wan easy access to internet to the people there, then I don't agree... Cuz many kampung areas got 3G or even 4G networks already. So, the people there can access to internet already, so they can easily get information liao... But mostly are youngsters using the internet there la...

Sorry to intrude. Just got myself a Logitech harmony elite and wondering for my Astro beyond pvr what would be the manufacturer and model number. Thank you. Happy Deepavali