The irony that official Sirius lowyat account is still on Probation period.

Just realized...
U also senior.... Got many stars....
Was thinking some newbie when reply the previous post... Didn't see it....
Sure u would know what's the "P" tag about... Members been talking / know like 1 year already....

And Nope.
Not related with anyone/parties...
Whatever you heard is fake news / out to spoil my name 😡😤

Anyway...
Good to have some staff from Sirius TV.
Can clear our doubt....  Direct information 👍

Seems that Sirius TV admin is a long time fan of Lowyat Forum       

Has Sirius TV already started their services yet, like started broadcasting to homes?

I want to install Sirius TV on my second TV in my house. I already have a Pensonic MYTV Myfreeview decoder (comes with Teletext, VOD and OTT like RTM MyKlik and Media Prima Tonton and interactive functions through HbbTV) and another DVB-T2 decoder with OTT, VOD, video sharing platform, video library, video streaming and video database including Teletext and interactive functions on my second TV in my house.

What is Sirius TV's telephone number to call for installer to come and install the decoder and dish?

According to Sirius TV website, it uses 60cm size of satellite dish.


Sirius TV I remember previously the website stated that you guys will be using 75cm. Now appears to be 60cm? Could you explain what is the reason behind that change?

Hi..with the 3.7m Ku-Band Earth Station in Cyberjaya and the 400w TWTA , the Link Budget Analysis requires 60/65cm dish for West Malaysia +  Indonesia and 70/75 cm dish for East Malaysis/ Kalimantan. Our dish is elliptical in shape,  thus the 60/65cm and the 70/75cm sizes.

The channel lineup looks promising, especially Da Vinci & TechStorm. Also, Outdoor Channel is back in Malaysia.. thanks, Sirius! Looking forward to subscribing to your service soon.

Hmm... What if standardise them to 75cm in both West and East Malaysia?
Or do you mean that even if 75cm dish is used for West Malaysia, there won't be any signal improvements at all, compared to 60/65cm dish?
The LPF requires to delay the feed by few minutes too?

But..... Is this business model sustainable though?
I mean, how'd you guys ensure able to gain profit to offer more channels in the future?

From consumer point of view, the concept of prepaid basis, start and stop anytime, and no contract, is indeed a plus point.

But how about practicing the similar method as those OTT subscription?
Example let's say Sirius TV from 13th month onwards, if customer is interested, an auto reoccurring option is offered, where RM20/month would deduct automatically through debit/credit card monthly on time.
That way, viewers no need to headache about "forgot to pay", and ensure uninterrupted viewing, and only initiate to cancel the service as per request (whenever you want), similar like Netflix.

Unless if customer prefers other manual payment methods, then can go ahead with topup basis through cash or PIN voucher (e.g. Buy at convenient store or online).

only 8 channel?

Inb4 it's in SD only.

I just wondering how the Sirius work after 1 year?
Assuming after 1 year, then I dun wan go for subscriptions RM20/mth..

So is it I cannot watch any single TV channel at all? Coz I dun find which channels under category free channels and which channels are under pay per month channels?

Thanks for your explanation..

That means it is like pre-post paid plan.
After top up, scramble channels unlocked.

Once the timing is over, again scramble channels.

Sound like telco yoodo plan pre-post paid plan..

Sirius tv now on air (picture from fb post)

Technical Suggestions/Opinions
Video
It is pretty obvious to me that Tech Storm has better HD picture quality compared to others, as it uses constant bitrate of 5Mbps.
The video compression artifacts for Outdoor Channel and especially GEM, is more apparent... 
Sirius TV shall consider standardise the bitrate for HD channels too, at least 5Mbps (H.264 video codec) on all HD channels?
I hope the broadcast tech team in Sirius TV would explore further ways to improve picture quality while maintain same 5Mbps HD bitrate, by making some technical adjustments on the video encoder settings, such as larger GOP size (Group of Picture).
These 3 channels (Tech Storm, GEM, Outdoor Channel) are considered to be "premium channels" to some extent/people, hence I believe that Sirius TV should have just make all 3 in HD quality instead... 😅
Or better still, use HEVC video codec   

Also, I notice that Sirius TV offers Outdoor Channel in original video frame of 29.97fps (NTSC) instead of converting it to 25fps (PAL).
Maintain original video frame rate. Nice   

Audio
On the first impression, the TV channel's audio quality seems okay to me, not until I tune to GEM channel, where I start to notice the bad audio quality artifacts only on GEM.
And I check, hmm, it uses MP2 audio codec, and the bitrate choice of 192kbps seems okay to me, but why is it only 96kbps for GEM channel?  :confused:
The audio quality of 96kbps for a MP2 audio codec, are very bad actually. Unless if Sirius TV proceed with HE-AAC audio codec (patent-required) of 96kbps, then it is a different story.
But if it's MP2, nah... 
I would suggest that if Sirius TV will be using the royalty-free MP2 audio codec in the long run, consider standardise the audio track bitrate on all channels as 192kbps Stereo...

Conclusion
Anyway, it is still testing phase, and some things may change from time to time... I wish all the best for Sirius TV 
And yes, I will continue to monitor from time to time 😁

It's my pleasure... 
Btw why is it only 3-4 channels on air right now? I thought there would be up to 15 channels to be included in the test broadcast begins on 15 March?
Perhaps could you share on what are the technical challenges faced right now to uplink/provide the temporary FTA broadcasts to the viewers?
Because I do encounter occasional picture freeze, pixelation and blackouts on all channels as well, yet I see my satellite signal readings remain pretty constant... So it seems that some issue coming from your side?

Oh yes, I'd love to... HAHAHAHA    

Also, would like to ask:

Does the final official box is limited to just Sirius TV reception like Astro or just a normal receiver with encryption decoder to decode Sirius?