Maybe is, once the crawler appears on the channel, then only Awesome TV perform DuitNow Transfer to Astro, hence the channel failed to cease.
Who knows, the money that they transferred to them, is only for few month's worth of leasing fee.
Then we might see another round of crawler appear on the channel few months later again
Not to say "bullying" la... It's their way of doing business like since forever, and they have their own reasons to justify that.
Assuming that this is due to not-so-good-payment-record from Awesome TV's end, you can't be expecting Astro to be nice guy all the time...
Not everyone will be happy if the person owes you money, and then give all sorts of reasons... Once or twice maybe still ok, but if too many times?

They are doing business, not charity, and definitely not a company for you to suka suka hutang money with them.

This post has been edited by joshhd: Jul 4 2024, 11:39 PM

You can choose Sports Pack (RM99.99/month).
And yes, 24 months contract will restart.

Why do you think Astro Citra can be ceased now?
What does it got to do with Astro Premier?

Yes, I'm pretty sure it is related to money.
I'd say, if the viewership of Media Prima channels, particularly TV3 and 8TV, are still relatively high even in SD quality, perhaps they don't feel necessary to have additional expenditure to distribute the channels in HD quality.
Cuz for Media Prima's point of view, viewership is the first priority for them, and practically they don't benefit anything whether the viewer watches the channel in HD or SD quality or not.
But if Media Prima is willing to pay fees to Astro to distribute their channels in HD quality, then I don't see any reason for Astro to not allow them to proceed cuz it's an additional revenue for them anyway...

Cuz tbh, if Media Prima really cares about viewer's viewing experience, they would have start paying Astro to distribute their channels in HD long time ago.
I remember I read somewhere that TV3 has the No. 1 viewership, followed by Astro Malay in-house channels (i.e. Astro Ria) at 2nd place or something like that.
And majority of the TV3 viewers are coming from Astro/NJOI platform, not from digital TV platform (MYTV Broadcasting) or any other platforms.

But the advertisers may have another say on this...
How so? The advertisers want their advertisement to be shown as HD to Astro viewers? Lol, would they even care?

Which shopping channels are you referring to?

You from beginning until end, only cares about company giving out dividends?
How much shares have you bought actually...?

Go Shop is from Astro itself, that's why.
But Go Shop already ceased operations, so that's end of story already.

Now it's dominantly Wow Shop, which is from Media Prima... And Media Prima channels on Astro are all in SD quality.
Other kinds of home TV shopping that you might see on RTM or Al Hijrah channels, are mostly just spot buys, where it only airs at certain timing only.

This post has been edited by joshhd: Jul 11 2024, 11:55 PM

Hmm... What I see is, there's 2 conclusions.

One, perhaps Astro genuinely has their valid and convincing reasons to not pay that additional tax money to IRB. Fine, let them sit down and drink tea with IRB. If still no happy, it'll become "See you in court".

Or two, Astro giving all sorts of inconveniences to customer when they pay their bills late (because they can). Now, it's the government giving new kind of inconveniences to Astro for not paying the tax at the right amount that they supposed to (because they can too). Serve them right.

What goes around comes around.

This post has been edited by joshhd: Jul 12 2024, 12:00 AM

Then it's going to be "See you in court" then...
https://theedgemalaysia.com/node/718686

And what if Astro loses the court case? It's going to be more than RM734.88 mil

All the "good things and ways" on how they treat their customers for all these years, slowly it's payback time.

Astro have been producing their own shows and movies of all languages, hence I guess that's what they meant by "production cost".

Measat Broadcast Network Systems (MBNS) is actually another name for Astro. A lot of people don't realise this actually, but ordinary people usually won't care.

The literally "MEASAT" satellite company, the one that operates Measat satellite's in space and to provide satellite commercial services to clients is:

MEASAT Global Berhad
MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd.
MEASAT Communication Systems Sdn. Bhd.

So don't get mixed up.

If pay by instalment over a number of years, then how about interest? No interest?

"Same same, but different."

Last time we have Astro, RTM and Unifi TV to broadcast the games. But this year still yet to be confirmed.
Astro sure have complete coverage of the Olympics one, this one no need to worry.

I know in.terms of technical stuff, these extra channels use bandiwth or something (forgive my noob knowledge) and also extra channels will mean extra cost..
Astro have enough transponders for that, cuz their transponder leasing fees are pretty much fixed, regardless if they utilise all of it or not, so there's no reason to worry about that.
But as what I observe, they usually don't utilise until 100% of all their satellite transponder capacity, as they wanna reserve some for backup also.
The upcoming Olympics event is one of the best example, which they're likely to have like 10 channels just for Olympics, just like previous years of Olympics.
Another good but unfortunate example is, back in June 2021 when their Measat 3 satellite suddenly went "missing in space", hence they fully utilise all available capacity on Measat 3a and 3b as their contingency plan, until Measat 3d satellite becomes operational.

and if it was the olympic games, each channel would show a different sport or event..all.of this was accessible via the red button..
If you wanna know each channel is showing what kind of sport event, just refer to the EPG (TV Guide). You don't need red button to tell you that also.

But is it just astro who cant do this anymore or other companies around the world also dont offer these past features? Like Sky or the BBC in the UK or Fox or NBC in thr US or Optus in Australia..? They also dont have these anymore or how?
I'm not sure about other country's pay TV, but in my opinion, I think Astro just wanna put more resources that could generate revenue, rather than put more focus in having fancy interactive red button apps like these.
I mean, nowadays with the power of smartphones and Internet, you can get much interactive and richer experience compared to what you can get from a interactive red button app.
Therefore, this makes interactive red button no longer the first thing that comes into their mind.

Anyway, that's just my opinion...

Perhaps relocating your satellite dish would be better option.
You can contact customer service on this, tell them you want your satellite dish to be relocated to another location of your house.

If major rewiring works is involved, then you might need to pay for new cable. If I'm mistaken, installer would charge you RM3 per metre.

Alternatively, directly contact an Astro installer to do it for you also can. This will be considered private hire.

Both scenarios that you mentioned, are also possible. The installer will make the judgement according to your cabling set up, the condition, etc.
But you can request them to do it at your own way.
Yes it is possible that the technician might tell you to rewire everything, especially if they see that the condition of your satellite cable is not that good.

No. If you pay the RM65 fee, you won't be tied to any contract.

In simple words, this one as long you got money, sure can settle one. Headache only happens if you're not willing to pay for it.
Since it is your neighbour that wants to build up a wall on it, tell your neighbour to pay for the dismantle & reinstall of your satellite dish.

Is this normal for the images to take a few seconds to become sharp every time I switch channels? Thanks
Unfortunately yes. That is one of the disadvantage that you will experience if you opt for their Plug & Play service.
Plug & Play means, your Ultra Box receives the channel through Internet connection, without relying on satellite dish at all.

Besides this, you will also experience intermittent buffering as well as fluctuating video quality (because of adaptive bitrate streaming) when watching TV channels, especially on 4K UHD channels like CH805.
Doesn't matter whether you're on WiFi or LAN, or 1Gbps or 10000Gbps, the intermittent buffering will still happen.
It's coming from them, not you.

These are one of the few issues that you must expect when using their Plug & Play service, and these won't happen if your Astro box receives the TV channels from the satellite dish.

When you or the agent attended you about upgrading to Ultra Box, if you did not specifically tell them that you want the Ultra Box to continue using satellite dish, the agent will create your order as Plug & Play.
That has already been their standard SOP for quite some time already.

If the reason you opted for Plug & Play because you don't want to experience weather interruption which will happen when you use Astro satellite dish, well the good news is, this message will appear when your Ultra Box has no satellite signal (e.g. heavy rain)

By pressing OK on your remote, it will start to receive the TV channel you were watching through Internet connection, until you tune to other TV channel.
So while it rains, at least there is a backup for you to continue watching what you were watching, hence you don't need to worry about heavy rain cannot watch Astro anymore.

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If you want your Ultra Box to properly operate as Satellite mode, you'll have to contact customer service, tell them you want to change to Satellite.
By doing so, your 24 months contract will be restart, and an Astro installer will need to come over and do the configuration for you.

Tip: As long your Astro account is tagged under Plug & Play in their system, if you attempt to Restore Factory Settings on your box and change to Satellite mode yourself, you will see "Subscription Required" message on almost all TV channels, until you restore it back to Plug & Play mode again. So it's no point doing that.
No matter what, the change must be done at Astro's system first.

It remains a mystery why the microSD card slot even exist in the first place for Ultra Box v1.
I don't think they ever allow to be used by customers also, or maybe halfway they've decided to abandon the plans/features that involves microSD slot, hence the slot is gone in Ultra Box v2.

PFH2 is the Ultra Box v2 (You can see the "Ultra Box v2" at the bottom right corner of the Settings page).

Yeah, as what I know, it is the current variant of Ultra Box they're giving out to customers today.

Paris 2024 Olympics coverage on Astro
https://www.facebook.com/Astro/videos/3703024826583248/

Based on the info from the video posted by Astro Facebook page, and the information posted on Stadium Astro https://stadiumastro.com/sukan-lain/paris-2...an-astro-269059, here's what I can conclude:

• There will be 16 dedicated Olympics channels. Also, Astro Arena and Arena 2 channels will also be providing some Olympics coverage, so total they make it up as 18 channels. But for me, I'll assume it as 16 channels.
• All Astro customers will have access to the 16 channels (meaning you don't need to subscribe to Sports to watch the Olympics)
• However, out of the 16 dedicated Olympics channels, only 10 of it will be made available via satellite. The remaining 6 channels, will be made available on Astro GO & Sooka platform.
• Sooka users with any active plans will have full access of the 16 channels mentioned, plus 2 Arena channels.

Tip: In case for those who don't know what I meant by "available via satellite", it means that if your Astro box uses satellite dish to receive channels, then you can only watch 10 dedicated Olympics channels (CH780-789).
If you want to watch the remaining 6 channels (CH790-795), you would need to watch it on Astro GO.
But I assume those are either just repeats or some sports matches that majority of Malaysian viewers may not be interested of...

#	Channel no.	Channel name	Quality	Available via Astro satellite?
1	801	Astro Arena	HD	Yes
2	802	Astro Arena 2	HD	Yes
3	780	Olympic 1	HD	Yes
4	781	Olympic 2	HD	Yes
5	782	Olympic 3	HD	Yes
6	783	Olympic 4	HD	Yes
7	784	Olympic 5	HD	Yes
8	785	Olympic 6	HD	Yes
9	786	Olympic 7	HD	Yes
10	787	Olympic 8	HD	Yes
11	788	Olympic 9	HD	Yes
12	789	Olympic 10	HD	Yes
13	790	Olympic 11	HD	No
14	791	Olympic 12	HD	No
15	792	Olympic 13	HD	No
16	793	Olympic 14	HD	No
17	794	Olympic 15	HD	No
18	795	Olympic 16	HD	No

Also, this time they did not mention anything about 4K UHD, then it's pretty much understood, there will be no 4K UHD broadcasts for Paris 2024 Olympics, unlike the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
I guess is they want to save cost, or they think there's isn't much hype about Olympics.

This post has been edited by joshhd: Jul 16 2024, 11:48 PM