Good question. I was wondering the same thing too.
I think it is better that they allocate a range of LCN numbers to use exclusively for FTA TV stations to be used across multiple different TV platforms. Meaning, all DTT, Astro and Unifi TV, as well as any new pay TV providers to use the same LCN number, so that won't have different LCN across different platforms. I have no idea what Astro is thinking. Create public confusion is their goal now?

Out of a sudden, 146 until 149 for TV Okey, NTV7, 8TV and TV9.
Is it because they see that this channels has low viewership, so they don't care much and put those channels numbers to far behind?

https://quake.com.my/happening/359-first-in...ia-regional-ads

I think Astro got an idea already.... regional targeted ads

🤔, this means that Astro is cutting down on their in-house channels( such as Astro WLT) to make up for the cost of having different feed?

I wonder is the feed delivered via which area physically it's located or it uses registered address

Still in SD. Yup they use same channel number for HD and SD. But how come they not uss this system earlier?
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I believe the same number channel are just numbers mapped to channels. It is just that Astro can set HD tuner to receive only HD program and the SD, by nature, can only see SD channel.

The reason Astro cannot eliminate the SD channel is that not all TV in use now are capable of receiving HD. I think even in the US there are still SD program available. 

for Mediaprima, not sure they'll output all in Hd bc they haven't broadcast all of them in hd at dtt yet...

Well, MYTV Broadcasting (commonly known as myFreeview) has TV3 and 8TV on HD - so we still have hope to see some of the Media Prima channels become HD on Astro.

seems like astro trying "forcing" Njoi users to Full Paying subscribers of B.yond or Ultra-box 
u want more Indian content, subscribe to Value Pack 

Okay.... Astro TVIQ channel now apparently, has Go Shop product placement slot too. 

"Do you want to be healthy, smart and strong? Then you need Vitamin C!"
That host, even uses kids friendly voice tone to talk and interact with the 2 children as what you saw on the screenshot...
So now they target on children products, on a "kids learning" channel, Astro TVIQ?
So, does it means we will see Go Shop product placements on children related products on Astro Ceria and Astro Xiao Tai Yang in the future as well?
Very nice lah. 

If I am a kid watching that, and I want to be healthy, smart, and strong, I would convince my parents to buy that yummy Vitamin C gummies.

Children are easily convinced, you see....

Disney Shutting Down 18 Cable Channels In Southeast Asia And Hong Kong From 1 October 2021

Disney is closing 18 channels in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong starting 1 October 2021. This marks the end of an era for the company who has a huge entertainment supply chain in the region.

Geek Culture understands that employees were informed about the closure earlier today in Singapore.

The 18 channels closing down in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong after more than two decades are entertainment channels Fox, Fox Crime, Fox Life and FX;
movie channels Fox Action Movies, Fox Family Movies, Fox Movies and Star Movies China;
sports channel Fox Sports, Fox Sports 2, Fox Sports 3, Star Sports 1, Star Sports 2;
kids channel Disney Channel and Disney Junior;
factual services Nat Geo People and SCM Legend.

The decision to close these 18 channels is so that the company can focus on its direct-to-consumer (D2C) streaming model. Only 4 channels made the cut to D2C: Star Chinese Channel, Star Chinese Movies, National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild.

Whilst the move may not be a shock to many, it leaves some questions for consumers of sports content. Fox’s sports channels include the rights to major sports events including Formula One, Australia Open, U.S. Open, Wimbledon and French Open. It is unclear what Disney plans to do for its sports consumers, though rumours suggest that the company may be working towards a D2C sports environment to address this issue.

Pay-TV platforms, such as SingTel Mio and Starhub, will have a giant hole to fill in their line-up. Likewise, consumers who subscribe to pay-TV platforms for access to these 18 channels may have to revise their subscription.

With many Disney staff impacted by the closure, the company has come up with a new staffing structure and unfortunately, let some employees go including Singapore-based marketing head Daniel Tan, Asia-Pacific head of marketing for studio marketing Shoba Martin and Tom Batchelor. Batchelor previously held the positions of VP of studio operations, theatrical and Disney+ content localisation and live entertainment, and Asia-Pacific VP music Southeast Asia. Disney has yet to disclose how many people will be leaving the company as a result of the closure.

Going forward, Fox Network Group content executive Michael Dick is now put in charge of D2C acquisition for the region as well as channels for Southeast Aisa, including Indonesia. Andy Baek has been tipped as head of media networks for Indonesia/Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan, with a dual role in direct-to-consumer programming business and Karan Paul, who is currently head of business transformation has been named head of D2Cbusiness operations.

“As part of The Walt Disney Company’s global effort to pivot towards a D2Cfirst model and further grow our streaming services, the company is consolidating its Media Networks business primarily in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. These efforts will help us align our resources more efficiently and effectively to current and future business needs,” said Disney in a statement announcing the closure to employees earlier this morning.

The company’s D2Cstreaming platform, Disney+, first arrived in Singapore in February this year.

https://geekculture.co/disney-shutting-down...1-october-2021/

https://www.facebook.com/sookamalaysia/about
It says:
The Malay language used in the description is way too casual lingua franca... For non-Malaysians who are reading this thread, basically this is the rough translation:
- catch the best LIVE sports actions events in one place...
- stream the first episode of series or selected movies for free, and many more...
- lots of free shows but you'll have to pay for sports content...
- promotional price of RM15.90 for VIP...

Backup (in case the post got deleted):
Stream 33 selected matches of the UEFA Euro 2020 for free on Sooka, or subscribe to VIP+Sports to stream all 51 UEFA Euro 2020 matches.

Hmm, what you guys think? 

Hi guys, I can't find sooka on my Chromecast with Google tv. It's not compatible with it?

Astro's minimum requirements for the IPTV Plug & Play mode is 10Mbps Internet for Full HD, which I can safely assume that the bitrate of the 1080i channels on IPTV Plug & Play are below 6Mbps (if Astro uses VBR encoding / CRF encoding for these channels*). They could be using adaptive streaming (which, technically, they put all the stream information into a MPEG-DASH manifest file) - so depending on your Internet speed, the quality will come out worse when you switch to that channel, then gradually increases the quality of the channel.
* Bitrate less than 1Mbps on 1080p feed is automatically applied on scenes / frames with less detail or still images, or mostly black / white color, and bitrate more than 4Mbps is mostly used on scenes / frames with high detail.

What I know about the IPTV Plug & Play technical details is HD / SD channels uses H264, and Astro UHD / Astro SuperSports UHD uses HEVC. HDR / HLG data is decoded through metadata. The UHD channels uses bitrates like Netflix (or other streaming services that uses 4K).
Astro GO's Audio bitrate is 40 Kbps HE-AAC, which I can also assume that they use Astro GO's Audio Stream to save bandwidth. Ultra / Ulti Box uses the same backend application with Astro GO (which is Cisco IVP).

For your information: unifi TV (the playtv@unifi feed) uses 3500Kbps CBR (Same bitrate when streaming) on 1080p live feeds, and 128Kbps Audio (2 times better than Astro), which is quite better than Astro GO. Some channels on unifi TV uses "fake HD" feeds, such as DW English, Star Chinese Channel and more.

Higher bandwidth = more cost
Therefore, the lower the bitrate, the better.

Lesson learned: At the end of the day, it's all about money

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Just realized Awani livestream on the site is much better quality over AOTG and 501 one.