TVB Magic (Channel 124) is coming on Astro at 19 June, 2023.

Hello all,

So currently 2 users in my house separately have Sooka sports package sub, rm34.90 x2. Used on phones, tablets.

Im thinking of getting the Astro rm99 sports package, that gives 2 concurrent screen usage of AstroGo right?

How is AstroGo's live sports for Football/F1 compared to Sooka?

My thinking is now paying rm70 ish for 2 ppl, might aswell topup rm30 more then can actually be able to watch on 2 phones and 1 tv if needed at the same time.

Truth be told, the TV in my living room rarely being used for the past 3-4 years. Want to make use of it more too.

Thoughts?

Primary function to watch Sports.

Received my ulti box last week

Noticed the resolution of 1080p from ulti box on few channels eg. 311 is worse than the old PVR decoder.

Is it a placebo effect or the new ulti box output resolution is worse?

If I change to Ultrabox, will non UHD eg. aEC HD, AOD etc channels appear in 4k resolution?

daam you are lucky PVR Working 

SPOTV: Video defects are inherent from source. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Pixelation or sudden video/audio loss in live broadcasts is common, especially when the broadcast cameras are on mobile due to signal degradation, just like this cycling competition event.
Imagine at the shooting venue, the cameraman is moving at fast speeds on a car/motorcycle/helicopter, with the camera transmitting the video footage wirelessly to their receiver, the wireless signal can be blocked or affected by the surrounding trees, hills or buildings, hence resulting temporary pixelation or video/audio loss for that particular scene, which can be seen by all viewers at home.
The video switcher operator (person who changes camera scenes/angles in real-time) will need to quickly change to other camera scenes/angles.

And I think SPOTV is very thoughtful for putting up a crawler to remind viewers that whatever sudden video/audio loss they see, is not a technical issue coming from the channel operator, and I think it will be a good idea that Astro would do such practice too.
Kudos to SPOTV 

I agree with you on the part about crawler message appears when there's major feed issue.

But as for minor issue like brief pixelation or audio/video blackout, some viewers may not aware that the "Video defects" they see are actually "not viewer's fault", and they may put the blame on pay TV operator, and in return, the customer service of the pay TV operator will put the blame back to the viewer, saying that there's something wrong somewhere with either your set-top-box, or satellite dish, or something else.

As a result, this would create bad customer experience.
Got Inform is better than no inform at all. Either way, nobody likes "video defects" no matter how big or small.

Hi, can someone share the screenshots for TVB Magic? One shot when the program is on and another on promo airtime page .... thx in advance!

Here you go.





Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CttbGwNPtuP/

Bear in mind that Chinese/English/Malay subtitles, as well as the channel operator, are provided solely by TVBI. Astro is only airing the channel as its broadcast partner.

There's one Japanese TV series titled "The Old Dog, New Tricks?" will be premiering this Saturday (24/6) 9pm.
Not surprised, it's a 2022 show 

Most like that this is Gugel translation 

I think not all shows there has that "Indonesian" subtitles issue.
Also, I notice the Malay subs does not have punctuations... Because there's no comma and full stops on a sentence, I see some netizens make noise that the subtitle is making it difficult to read, like don't know where's the start and end of the sentence/dialogue.

Numbers is an issue too. For example, when the dialogue/subtitles supposed to be "2.8 juta", but TVB Magic's Malay subtitles are showing it as "2 8 juta" without the dot. Literally "2<space>8<space>juta"
juta = million

It will be much cheaper if you opt for DCSS LNB instead, since Astro DCSS LNB is much more widely available today, so it'll be much cheaper too.

Personally, when watching a same HD channel via satellite, I'm seeing the same exact picture quality between HD/PVR box versus the Ulti/Ultra Box

Why not Eleven Sports though?

Eleven Sports and even EDGE Sports are tanking hard. Which leaves us with SPOTV & BeIN Sports only as international sport broadcasters. Others are all in house - Supersports/ Arena.

Need Help. My Astro smart TV is now not compatible to my Skyworth AndroidTv. It was fine before. Anyone faces similar problem and how ro rectify it. Calling CS no help either. Anyone has a working apk. Thanks