You're welcome. And I totally agree with what you said above (highlighted in bold)

Talking about CS answering unrelated matters to you, my response to you will be:

I don't think so as Mediacorp, StarHub and Singtel purchased the 2022 World cup rights together. They might be just taking the feed from Bein as there is no mention for "Bein Sports" for right holders section in Singapore.

It is also a complete clean feed too.

This post has been edited by shaun_kok: Dec 17 2022, 12:52 AM

From what I observe, Astro doesn't blur ad banner on corner of the screen that promotes shows from channels that Astro doesn't offer.
But if it is during commercial break, then yes, Astro will replace some ads (especially "irrelevant" ads like promoting shows from channels that Astro doesn't offer), into either in-house ads or product advertisements.

So yes, sometimes I still see ad banner promoting shows from GEM and Animax (although Animax already ceased on Astro) on One (393).
But.... Nobody cares

In fact, if Astro blur the ad banner like what Unifi TV did, I believe most viewers that initially doesn't bother to look at corners of the screen (just focus watching on that show), will begin to notice "Eh, how come there's this blur thinggy on top left corner of the screen? What is Astro trying to censor?"
Seems like this will raise more questions than already is

Most providers usually left the feed untouched (never a thing in Malaysia due to censorship purpose)
Pay TV providers in Malaysia will always use the excuse that because they are a licensed broadcaster, therefore they have to comply the country's censorship guidelines.
But the way I see it, they seems to use this "fact" to justify the reasons to purposely delay the feed and slot-in own ads to benefit themselves and the advertisers.

This post has been edited by joshhd: Dec 17 2022, 11:41 AM

CBeebies is avialable on unifiTV for many years and is available on all packs from the RM30 vernacular pack. After I know unifiTv I never turn back to azzteroo (but I am not really a sports fan so ymmv). Azzteroo is really so expensive. Even this kids channel they should make it available on primary pack upwards instead of this and that. If they dont change their mindset in another 2-3 years it will be history and we will say “once upon a time in malaysia there was this company call astro. When it started everyone loves and desires it. But ultimately they become such a hated company because they refuse to listen to customers”

This post has been edited by Iptvfan: Dec 17 2022, 08:16 AM

Anyone here was able to login to the BBC player app on the ultra box? For some reason I can’t seem to login to the app on the ultra box

"Loading" when tapping the Astro logo on the BBC Player app, can't get to the Astro ID screen.

No issue for me.

Do you scan the QR code with your phone QR code or via the App?

Scanning the QR code with the phone QR code just opens the app on my phone and for some reason the app on the Ultra box froze(back button doesn't work)

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/...16XvIAasilD0l5Q

Okay, we shall see in the next coming years

Tawar hati ever since they axed anime content and channels.

New homepage of Astro GO.

I got the info that Astro IPTV (Multicast) has cease its service effective today, and remaining users will have no choice but to either migrate to Plug & Play (For IP mode customers) or satellite (for hybrid mode customers)

Any Astro IPTV users here can confirm?

Yes it seems to stop working last night at midnight or so (I was doing laundry that time). I just pressed the yellow button and continue watching via satellite after that.

However it seems to be working ok now (but I can't tell if it's via IP or via satellite now).

If I had to guess it's probably to stop people from accessing udp/rtp streams, but then again pretty sure it's encrypted right, so no point blocking people from accessing when the key to decrypt it is in Astro's STB itself. So it's probably not working as well as they had hoped and wasn't up to standard, like how unifi is.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Astro IPTV is dead*
RIP: April 2013 ~ December 2022

Astro IPTV has 2 types of installation modes:
1) Hybrid mode - Your PVR box connects to both Astro satellite dish and has a LAN cable connection to your router.
2) IP mode - Your PVR box connects to a LAN cable to your router. No Astro satellite dish involved.

After been digging some additional info from various of "reliable sources", here's what I can conclude:
- This cessation only affects customers on Maxis residing on TM infrastructure, so technically VLAN 823 is dead.
- Existing Astro IPTV customers residing under Maxis NGBB and TIME Fibre infrastructure are not affected, and will continue enjoying Astro IPTV Multicast service as usual.
- Free upgrade option to either Ulti or Ultra Box are offered to affected customers. No additional fee + no contract extension + maintain existing legacy pack option are available.
- By default, upon upgrade to Ulti or Ultra Box, your Astro box will be tagged as Satellite mode in their system (for existing hybrid mode customers), or will be tagged as Plug & Play mode in their system (for existing IP mode customers)

Affected Astro IPTV customers who still haven't or refuse to migrate to Ulti or Ultra Box:
- Hybrid mode customers: If the PVR box has connected to the satellite dish, you'll be receiving TV channels through Astro satellite dish, meaning you'll start to experience rain fade (no satellite signal during bad weather) just like any other regular Astro customers out there that isn't using Ulti or Ultra Box.
- IP mode customers: You'll be getting Network Connection Not Available (NCNA) error message on screen, hence you'll have no choice but to migrate to Ulti/Ultra Box to continue watching Astro; you may request for satellite mode installation if you want (satellite dish installation required, additional charges may apply).

If watching Astro via satellite dish is a concern to you because of rain fade, don't forget that both Ulti and Ultra Box has this Continuous Viewing feature that allows you to temporarily switch to Internet streaming mode when there's no satellite signal, hence you'll still be able to watch TV channels even during bad weather.

Once you tune to other channel, it will automatically switches back to satellite reception mode.

Ansat Broadcast, MNC Group in direct-to-home TV joint venture
https://www.thesundaily.my/home/ansat-broad...ture-ML10396956

Day 2 of 103 fuked up aspect ratio.

Update: it's fixed

This post has been edited by Qash-M: Dec 22 2022, 03:57 PM

reminds me of MITV

MNC has hundred of channels but mostly indonesian, if not indonesian their channels are either redundant to many that astro already offered or lower resolution and many channels are still in SD.