Bein Sports Rugby is now live on 809

Mecool is a legit Android TV company with device that has proper Netflix 4K cert tho. Currently there are a number of cheaper proper Android TV devices that can be alternative to Chromecast/Mibox/Shield.

Namely most of Meecol's device, Onn (imported bulk from Walmart US, especially when they were sold at only USD 20 at one time over there) and Skyworth Leap S1.

Astro actually manually blocks their smart tv app from the app store per device models, but some models do slip through the ban list, whcih is why some not well known Android TV model have it listed on the playstore

This post has been edited by linkinstreet: Sep 6 2023, 10:40 AM

Sooka slowly evolving into Astro Go 2.0

I just noticed that for countries that takes the Champion's League dedicated channel from Bein (Bein Sports 3) like Malaysia and Singapore, they are not getting the Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers. Only countries that don't take the UCL package like Indonesia and Thailand received it.

Well, you need to remember that if you want Unifi TV, you MUST be a Unifi subscriber as well. Both are tied together. Now, not every place has Unifi offered, especially in rural area. Meanwhile you can get Astro as long as you can point a satellite to Measat.
Take me for example. I can get only Unifi through copper (maxed at 30Mbps) at my house, but I can get TIME fibre. So I have the weird setup of having two pay to two ISPs, just because I wanted to keep my Unifi TV as well as needing fast internet.

As a person that works in a company full of what I would say average Malays, most of them are still not open to the idea of subscribing to a dedicated internet at their house, even after the MCO. They are fine with just using their phone data to do their work, which is the biggest barrier to Unifi TV, since it's tied to having a Unifi account.

The best case scenario is for Unifi TV and Unifi Internet to split, meaning you don't need a Unifi account to be able to get Unifi TV. But since Unifi TV is basically is subsidised with how much we are overpaying TM for internet through Unifi, they won't be made seperate any time soon.

This post has been edited by linkinstreet: Sep 8 2023, 08:06 PM

For context, this is how much BEIN is charging if you subscribe it directly from them
So yeah, if you think Astro's is expensive, directly from BEIN is not much better



For fun, I decided to check the price in Singapore. Fuiyoh


This post has been edited by linkinstreet: Sep 8 2023, 10:10 PM

Dunno la, dude been using this thread like his own blog updating about other countries's TV channel

I mean, this is an Astro thread. It's unlikely we will get the idea when it has nothing to do with either Astro / Malaysia / SEA region in general.

I mean, at this moment not many Malaysian originals have the same budget as the ones produced by Astro. Rather have them than the rinse and recycle 7pm drama from Media Prima

I mean, people could, but most can't because you need to be a Unifi subscriber to be able to get Unifi TV. If TM would seperate these two, then I am sure majority would move from Astro to Unifi TV.
But since Unifi TV is funded by people overpaying Unifi, that won't happen anytime soon.

MOre to that, at least these new astro series are quite unique and pushing the limit of what's allowed. In the end, Astro is also just joining the streaming giants club like VIU or Netflix, where it's not just enough with showing pre-made content, but also original ones.

I doubt that. If UnifiTV by itself can make money, then it would be better for TM to make UnifiTV seperate from Unifi (the ISP), as then they can target people whose home are not covered by Unifi.

IIRC, the newly launched Ultimate Plus and Ultimate Max by UnifiTV are also tied to your UnifiTV's plan as well, with the user needing to subscribe to at least 100Mbps plan to get Ultimate Plus and 500Mbps to get Unifi Max. I mean, speed wise, if the user is already streaming smoothly with 100Mbps, why are they forced to get a more expensive plan just to get Max?

TM is no saint. They are here to make money. At the end of the day, they are just as greedy as Astro is, but since we are seeing UnifiTV's price as "seperate" from the ISP price, it seems "cheap" at first glance.

Back to Astro, they have launched the first three Asian Games channel.

You can't


https://unifi.com.my/tv/support/unifitv

Yeah, I also remember you can subscribe it ala-carte. I presume it was changed to this new policy during covid.

It's not actually a trick. Roaming is has always been you going through the local telco and then routed through Malaysia telco at the end.
But it's usually much more expensive, so it's not like someone who is studying/working outside of the country can use this perpetually.

I noticed my new UHD decoder rarely has issues if I unplugged the internet. Won't hang for months. But for some reason it won't pull EPG from OTA. So if I want EPG I have to plug in internet for a moment, get the EPG populated, and disconnect again.

Quite a hassle :v

My fren in Langat uses njoi because for years TM still won't offer fibre to his area. Not even pendalaman, just fringes of Kampung.

Deswai no matter if govt says fibre will be more widespread, as long as the company behind it won't lay fibre due to cost, it's just lip service by the govt.

I honestly don't believe they would get EPL. Not because Unifi can't afford the price of EPL mind you, but because Unifi themselves seems lacklustre in their in house sports line up. Basically they only have UFC as their only in house license. They rely on SPOTV and BEIN to fill in the gaps for Unifi Sports Channel.

Among other thing, also since Astro is quite close to the grassroot sports scenes and local sports scenes as well (think Malaysian Sepak Takraw League, Purple League, Malaysian Futsal, etc), Astro might *cough*use KBS cable*cough* to make sure EPL license stays with them.

Takde feel wei tengok recording. Heck, when SPOTV was delayed for 2 minutes I was already complaining, let along watching something that's already finished hours ago.

Just because you don't have the preference of watching something live, does not mean it's the same for everyone.

Test server for astro is limited to around that speed so don't worry

Does other channel works? I changed my Ultrabox from Internet -> Satellite and I successfully can tune in to all the subscribed channels so far.