It was made for Astro GO streaming in the end, with no commercial interruptions; unlike 10 linear channels on satellite decoders.

Uneeepai tv seems will open cenels up as well. They do this every year. Uneepai always give free cenels. Maybe they rich.

No news on unifi yet.

Advertisers won't throw money into the seas to buy commercial slots for those channels @ assthrow go.

No difference, I’m already enjoying all channels on Ultimate Max.

True for me oso. Sad many peep still dunno uneepai tv exist and only think azzxterooo. Good for azzteroo

Because No Fiber Unfi available in their areas...

Always lack of port or stay in jungle... Unifi don't bother...

So astro only choice 😋

Not exactly all 10.
I notice CH780 until CH784 is being "actively managed" to cut to commercials, as well as arranging programming schedule for highlights and repeats, while CH785 until CH794 is "almost unattended" and commercial-free (this one I like )

They made the 10 channels (CH780-789) to available across all Astro boxes (regardless of satellite or Plug & Play) as well as Multiroom Smart TV. So yeah, you can only watch CH790-794 live on Astro GO.

The most prominent advertisers who booked their commercial spots throughout this Olympics is the Shopee 8.8 and Apple (Safari browser) ads. It's like almost every single commercial break will have this 2 ads, while Shopee is obviously the biggest sponsor this time (I can see the brand placement on Astro Arena in-studio set up, as well as keep repeating the same ad within the same commercial break).

This post has been edited by joshhd: Aug 13 2024, 12:24 AM

Not because they're rich. It's because they want to make customers happy, and also a way to self-advertise too.
I remember they previously offered free movie redemption from U PICK, especially to those already on Ultimate related packs, right?

Maybe Astro should do that someday, to make those high paying customers happy too...

Astro already did recently with some selected customers applied a survey on My Astro and rewarded one Astro First's RM15 rental film for free.

That survey is selected to some of the customers only.
What I meant is, make it conjunction with this upcoming free channel preview...

Astro is planning to rejig their currently 15 confusing packages, according to analysts - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nst.com.my/node/1090785/amp

The old package is just nice

1 Malay, 1 Chinese, 1 Indian...

Then got add Indo, Korea, Movie & Sports if you want

Simple & clear cut...

Sorry to say... Malaysia always based on Race....

Even for Pay TV subscription

True that. Take Unifi TV for example: its current offerings divided into three ethnic packs — Aneka+, Ruby+, Varnam+.

I think they might change to the old offering style

The latest one is kinda complicated.... Want to follow trend but instead create more problem....

Let's see how...moving forward 😉

What? So they're planning to introduce all new packs again soon?

HAHAHAHAHA... 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I like that they use the word "confuse customers" in the news article, which is brutally honest in my opinion.

So, it seems to suggest that moving forward there will only be 3 packs? And the lowest price one is around RM40-50?
If yes, then Malay, Chinese, Indian? Then which race will get the around RM40-50 price? 🤨
I don't think the 3 packs will be based by ethnic...

Or Basic, Sports, Movies?
Or what if I want both Sports and Movies? What If I only want Entertainment but don't want Sports or Movies?
Or, they will just make almost everything as add-ons, similar to Kids, Korean, News & Documentaries, where you just add it up separately according to your liking? How about streaming apps?
Hmmm ok... I wonder how are they going to repackage everything

I remember back then when they introduced the new packs in 2021, there were no such thing "Plus Packs" like Movies Plus Pack, Sports Plus Pack, and then later on, they quietly introduced Premium Pack 4, Premium Pack 5 and Platinum Lite out of nowhere.
I doubt that they will stick with their "3 packs" for long... Sooner or later they might introduce a few number of new packs again, similar like what they did back then, in the name of "strategic business decision".
Imagine now is 3 packs, then few months later, another X number of new packs, and then another X number of new packs few months later....
Why add new packs, you ask? Then they would say because the current packs "isn't performing well" so they introduce new packs to "cater those audience"...
And then few years later, they will have almost 15 packs like what we get today, in the name of confuse customers 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Deja vu?
And then they announce, oh, we're going to introduce all new refreshed packs again, and then discontinue all the old ones.
Then the cycle repeats itself. If they're happy doing this, then....
If this really happens, then I feel like they seriously lost direction already.

Anyway, I think it's going to be "interesting" moving forward... Will see...
If their ARPU is the concern, they could also push more customers to subscribe to Astro Fibre, then that could ramp up the ARPU numbers already.
Also, combine all revenue collected from NJOI and Sooka... I believe this is what they've been doing today.


This post has been edited by joshhd: Aug 14 2024, 12:20 AM

Maybe they can take some cue from uneepai tv how they pack and bundle apps.

Let's just hoping Astro get the broadcast rights of Hong Kong Horse Racing and broadcast on Astro Arena and Astro AEC.

Just hope but won't happen for this to happen.

Assthrow has already shown the lowest price for its primary pack to attract more customers to sign up.
The last card is its sport pack that can push up the ARPU but cannot improve the current one.
That's why research house dares to say assthrow share to sell and at a lower target price.
Bear in mind assthrow needs to find funds to pay RM700M+ additional tax that will impact negatively the company prospect.