What Astro did with it's streaming side of thing is actually quite amazing if you're doing live streaming and video compression. 3.8Mbps target for 50FPS 1080p with picture quality to be at least similar to their broadcast (satellite) 1080i counterpart is nothing to scoff at. Combined with using Amazon's AWS for distribution, it's certainly not cheap.

Depends on the hardware they already invested in. Most likely it's an off the shelf encoder that it's easily accessible but not really optimised in term of quality (hence their higher bitrate still looks not as good as Astro's). But then again most of the live content provider in the region is using a similar setup. RTM, Vidio, MNC Vision, MeWatch(which brute force the quality by setting the bitrate to 8mbps, but still looks not as good as Astro's 4Mbps) and Thailand's AIS. They likely all invested in the same solution.

Once you've invested in this, you're likely locked in for decades as management would want to use money to invest in other areas of the company instead of upgrading something "that still works". And besides, these are targeted towards mobile users first and foremost, which would mask the quality deficit of these streams.

But unlike Astro which have different qualities for mobile (Astro OTG - max 720p @ 1.5mbps) and Smart TV, these providers are using the same stream for both so people notice the quality drop when it's viewed on a bigger device.

This post has been edited by linkinstreet: Aug 23 2024, 07:31 AM

Eh salah. I checked again and now it's 4.3mbps. i swear last year was 8mbps

Too many people trying to activate it at the same time I presume. Try again tomorrow.

It's a chicken and egg problem due to Unifi TV being available only if you're subscribed to a Unifi account. They want more channel, they need more subscribers, but they can't get any more unless more people subscribe to a Unifi ISP, and they (Unifi TV) rely on Unifi to offset their pricing to the consumer.

At least with Astro, they have Sooka which does not require one to have an Astro account.

Ah, I based it on it's FAQ page


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

can also use MUSE Asia and AniOne youtube channels