If you would to recommend a portable and small size antenna, yet has a powerful signal reception capacity, would you recommend antenna like this one:

https://shopee.com.my/Digital-TV-Antenna-UH...38079.313253815

...or something else?

It should work. Yagi are odd antennas. To get a bit more gain requires a LOT more elements and a much bigger antenna

Also the updates fixed the non-local E-016-0 error message.

Any way to force update for the MYTV decoder?

https://www.budiey.com/8tv-kini-disiarkan-s...-di-mytv/?amp=1
Let's see.

Hmm, we could expect another bitrate check from joshhd then?

It's 99% likely be same like TV3 one, so it be like that.

Yes, do expect a bitrate check from me from time to time. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

4Mbps is pretty much their standard for its HD channel.

Unless they want to fork more bandwidth...

...which is unlikely. Based on MYTV Broadcasting's pattern.

The long awaited thing had happened. 8TV is now in HDTV (1080i) instead of SDTV (576i). Rescan TV set/Set top box if there is transmission loss.

This post has been edited by shaun_kok: Feb 12 2021, 01:00 AM

Bitrate check from joshhd to be followed i guess?

ps: Apologies if my ping causes problems with you, but it'll be interesting to see how much bandwidth they left after this conversion to HD.

This post has been edited by surrodox2001: Feb 12 2021, 12:56 AM

Malaysia Digital TV Bitrate Check
12 Feb 2021
Latest changes: 8TV channel is now in HD effective 12 Feb 2021 midnight

MUX 1: 666MHz (Channel 45)

Video bitrate:
HD = 4.1Mbps
SD = 2.1Mbps
Audio bitrate for TV & radio channels: HE-AAC v2 32kbps Stereo

MUX 2: 650MHz (Channel 43)

Video bitrate:
HD = 3.65Mbps (CBR 3.5Mbps, according to MediaInfo)
SD = 2.1Mbps

Audio bitrate for RTM TV channels: HE-AAC 48kbps Stereo
Audio bitrate for RTM radio channels: HE-AAC 112kbps Stereo

This post has been edited by joshhd: Feb 12 2021, 01:28 AM

Weird, I cant see the table for some reason...

So if you wonder:
- How many more SD/HD channels that MYTV Broadcasting can offer on its existing muxes?
- If they would to increase bitrate to improve overall A/V quality, would it be possible now?

Use this table and you can self-imagine:

Looks like Mux1 has already filled up quite well, if they wanna open up another new channel/do a HD upgrade for an existing channel, i guess Mux3 is coming soon then.

According to Utusan Online: https://www.utusan.com.my/berita/2021/02/12...disiarkan-mytv/
The way I see it, they focus on quantity more than quality

And based on available bandwidth for Mux 1 and Mux 2, it is for sure that Mux 3 is coming very very soon (because obviously the bandwidth is not enough).

MUX 1 : Enough bitrate for with some extra radio stations + just 1 extra SD channel/1 channel to be convert into HD
MUX 2 : Enough bitrate for up to 3 SD channels/1 HD channel + 1 SD channel plus some radio channels.

Both MUXes are almost full now (1 MUX has around 34Mbps bitrate). So, MUX 3 is expected to coming soon (that will require advance information for rescan STB/TV) or cause chaos like before, where RTM channels move MUX, moreover with possible addition of channels.

Gone were the days where even MUX 1 is half empty due to lack of interest from TV operators.

This post has been edited by shaun_kok: Feb 12 2021, 02:46 AM

That's because TV operators those days aren't so "confident" about MYTV Broadcasting yet. Plus there's a few other new TV operators, where it is largely unknown by the public, yet no official launch date is announced.

Btw based on the figure earlier, how about increasing bitrate to improve A/V quality? 😆

This post has been edited by joshhd: Feb 12 2021, 02:48 AM