My 2 cents : i went to msia last march to attend this symposium called, "Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)" that talks about this things where big big countries share their experience with regards to dvb-t/s/h/sh and digital radios. and im part of the "Asean Digital Broadcasting (ADB)" specialist group, in other words.. i am "in the loop" about this topic.. so basically ive seen/heard presentation from skmm and rtm on this and i can tell u rtm is still in the trial stage. why they start with the olympic is cuz its the first fullhd signal being broadcasted but about the 15mbps thing, i dont remember msia going the mp4 route.

about why its faster than astro? well, if u look at ure astro box u can read "DVB" which means digital video broadcasting. actually astro = dvb-s which is over satelite. the one RTM is doing is called dvb-t. t=terrestrial. in terms of going digital, astro is first. but in terms of dvb-t, astro cannot do it before rtm as astro does not have the spectrum right from skmm to do it yet. u can tell its a digital signal when the picture is either good or off.. no such thing as not clear signal for digital as its either 1 or 0

this is the same almost everywhere in asean. which was why ADB was formed to gather all the public broadcasters (free to air channels) (which have spectrum right) and their regulators to decide on a common broadcasting standard, common devices (for cheaper manufacturing and import). all accept vietnam though, they were awesome enough to force the tv makers to install all new lcd tvs with built in dtv tuner. the choice whether to simulcast or not (broadcast both digital and analog at the same time), if yes for how long?

the ultimate end to this will be the ASO (analog shut off date) which means the date when all analog transmission will be stopped.. i think msia is some time in 2015 or was it 2012.. cant remember. and too lazy to open up my files lol.. meaning u have to make sure that u got the dvbt setup box before that date or no fta channels for u! haha

hopefully they release setupboxes with hdmi out.. as the ones released here does not have hdmi out.. only component eventhough its mpeg4 quality...

This post has been edited by callmevil: Aug 11 2008, 06:36 AM

yes digital for transmission.. but as for source.. its not a matter of it being analogue or not, its a matter of compression. their source is using sd compression.

u notice when it rains astro just cuts off.. this shows that its digital because if its analogue, ull just get noise on ure screen.. but digital its either all or nothing.. astro can definitely fix this though by just increasing the length of their transmission longer to that of a raindrop's diameter..

haha cuz with or without it, customers still come mar.. thats the problem with monopoly.. no incentive for QoS.. u can voice to SKMM to make a new policy for this though.. lol

same as brunei.. the issue with ASO is making sure everyone (even rural area ppl) are aware of it and have migrated to digital.. quite hard for msia since still alot of areas are rural.. unlike singapore where new tech adoption is very good..

1080i is a dirty word.. and of curz it can have hdcp...

http://www.hktdc.com/sourcing/company_prod...int=2&locale=en

check out that setup box... it all depends on the broadcaster... if they use mpeg2 then no need loo hdmi.. but that would be a waste.. mpeg4 or nothing! lol