There seems to be some issue with the TV1 feed that Starhub has been receiving, for a couple of days already, all we see are the below, lol

The last time checked, TV2 is 1920x1080, interlaced, 25FPS, average 3.5Mbps.

Thanks AV 2018 & Shaun, I read Hong Kong TVB transmit at around 14 Mbps .... but that was quite some time ago .... not sure if they have lowered the bitrate ....  interesting how Hong Kong can go so high, haha.

These are the DTT frequencies after frequency restacking is being carried out for Mux 1 and Mux 2.

Source (as of 6 Dec 2019): https://www.mytvbroadcasting.my/pdf/Lists-of-frequency.pdf
Original PDF for archive purposes: [attachmentid=10370434]

In conclusion, the total frequency range they'll use after frequency restack is between 546MHz to 682MHz.
682MHz (678-686MHz), just right enough to prevent interference from upcoming 700MHz 4G/5G band.

Although I do hope that they would use 470-610MHz frequency range for DTT instead...

So far MYTV only announce there'll be 5 transmitters to complete the frequency retune exercise by end of this year.
The rest are still haven't announce...
That could mean the one that they just uploaded to their website, is still subject to change then? 
Will see how... 

Astro is vulnerable to satellite failure and Netflix etc depend on the international cable actually working.
Both depend on foreign governments to function.
Terrestrial TV is actually a reliable fallback

It's all about that video bitrate.

For all Mux 1 channels, you can see that they use the same constant bitrate for its SD and HD channels.


A closer look on the 3 HD channels on Mux 1.

Mux 2: The 5 RTM channels in HD quality.

Mux 1 (TV3, Al Hijrah, Go Shop):
4.14Mbps per HD channel
2.09Mbps per SD channel

Mux 2 (All RTM channels):
3.6Mbps per HD channel

So, do you find that the video bitrate is "enough" based on what you see on myFreeview's HD channels?

Guessing a rescan is required?

does this affect all areas?

Seems that MYTV never learned their lesson during when RTM channels changes MUX or removing channels in the past. Just add, moved or delete channels as they wish abruptly without placing any holding slides for a while informing the move. Expect some complaints to them during frequency restacking in the future. Not everybody is tech savvy nor everybody has a set top box/TV who do auto tuning. The technical team of MYTV is incompetent and unprofessional by allowing avoidable issues happening for many times. Please do everybody if you see this, do a complaint to MCMC regarding this awful situation.This gives more space to MUX 1 though for new channels (unlikely) or allowing all channels moving to HD (also an unlikely scenario) as Media Prima cannot even settle down 8TV in HD due to their tight financial situation.

There's no change in both video and audio bitrate even after Al Hijrah and Bernama has moved to mux 2.
So the picture quality on all channels especially, are still s**t as usual.

HD channels (except from RTM): 4Mbps
HD channels from RTM: 3.5Mbps
SD channels 2Mbps

Mux 1:



*filtered to show Video track only.


*filtered to show Audio track only.

Mux 2:



*filtered to show Video track only.


*filtered to show Audio track only.


*filtered to show Audio tracks for both TV and radio channels.

The audio bitrate for the radio channels are higher than the audio bitrate used on TV channels. 
RTM pay more money to MYTV Broadcasting for higher bitrate, or simply because MYTV Broadcasting sees that since it's a radio channel, so bitrate put higher? 
Haiz, no eye see 🙈🙈🙈

What'd you say to MCMC? "MYTV uses lower video bitrate on all DTT channels, causing poorer video quality"? Or how?

As expected, the video bitrate still remain unchanged even after today's frequency restacking exercise.
Well, for a company like MYTV Broadcasting, I don't expect them to increase the video bitrate soon anyway.





I hope RTM would negotiate with MYTV to increase the video bitrate, cuz 2.5Mbps for a Full HD channel is seriously too low, and the compression artifacts will become obvious especially when there's a fast moving scenes. I guess because if see it from far, picture quality looks "sharp", but when there's a fast moving scenes, pixelation (lots of small boxes) appear on image due to compression artifacts of the use of video bitrate that is too low.

And if you think this is signal issue, that means you are not a technical person. 
Yes, I'm referring to those MYTV customer service agents.     

However, it's worth noting that the audio bitrate only for RTM channels are 48kbps HE-AAC v2, while the rest of the channels are still 32kbps HE-AAC v2.
Yea, a slight improved audio quality, but reduced video quality compared to other channels.