Hey guys,
So I've been reading through the forum (going back some months etc.). I notice there's a general hatred/frustration for the Ultra box and special love for PVR box. I'm just trying to understand how bad is the Ultra box? As I'm new to Ultra box, Iām a little troubled at the comments I read, if I made the right decision to come back.
I've been using the Ultra box for about 4 days now... I'm not surprised the HD quality and audio is average, most channels are not great (expected) and the UHD is ok while the box tends to hang quite a bit but I notice nice smoothness with the GUI etc.. Is the PVR box audio/visual quality much superior compared to Ultra?
I don't find the logics in that as the compression is done from the studio level and broadcasted to the set-top box. If Astro fix the compression level, container type for the A/V, then I believe across board we would see an increase in broadcasting quality. I also notice the audio is rather messed up especially UHD 805. While watching replays of EPL, audio is nasty. Somehow only EPL. The ads and replay of an European football match on 805, the audio was fine. EPL on ASSP HD channels, audio is generally standard unlike the UHD channel. Too much pink noise, static especially the commentatorās voice. Only solution I found was to downgrade the audio setting from Dolby Atmos (DD+) to Dolby digital in the Ultra, best was to change it to Stereo PCM. I donāt know if the feed received from England is the issue or Astro.
This post of mine is just to understand the sentiment between PVR box vs Ultra box as I donāt see a correlation in the quality of broadcast vs type of box used. I can understand the way the boxes handle and behave but can the audio and visual quality differ between boxes of the same satellite broadcast?
My current Ultra setup ā Satellite connection
About my overall experience with Astro in the past:
I've used Astro in the past, and used various setup boxes such as the Philips, Nokia, was also the beta HD user during the pilot launch of HD <Byond with and without PVR> and eventually terminated Astro due to the usual obvious reasons <A/V compression, costly and repetitive programs>. I then went on to other sources (You name it, Iāve used) and decided to come back to Astro mainly for sports. I need my football to be live, been in āagonyā for years of people cheering 40sec to 1 min before me, buffers, login issue etc.
Once again, itās good to see the community here active and trying to help each other! Truly appreciate all feedbacks and assistance. Sorry for the rather long post.
This post has been edited by vickno: Aug 3 2022, 06:00 AM