Woke up just morning and saw this on the guitar. Arghh.. the D string has snapped~

Now it needs to be replaced.. time for surgery =P

Brace yourselves! bla bla bla~ publicity crap.

Astro HD is coming to Malaysia .. FINALLY. Hmm, if I’m not mistaken HD transmission has already been launched elsewhere around the world since urm.. 5 years ago? Wow.. finally we can have HD transmission here in Malaysia. Worse of all, it doesn’t come for free. Astro has been monopolizing the satellite tv rights here and bloodsucking more than a few million subscribers here with their somewhat below par services by packing more and more channels into its limited bandwidth which causes the poor image quality currently (around VCD quality) to be even worse.

However, this doesn’t really bring much impact to some users as they have already been enjoying HD contents via HDD media players. Hong Kong dramas in HD, TV series.. just to name a few.

I wonder where will they source the decoder from this time. Would it be transmitting at 1080p/i or just 720p? Anyway it doesn’t really matter as long you sit far enough from the screen and its not larger than 42″ . The difference would simply be unnoticable. Make sure it outputs as HDMI and not component outputs. Argh..

I bet Astro would hike up the price AGAIN for this HD “premium” service. They are experts in this field.. more because of them being the monopoly here. Not sure whether I would become one of them to get lured into this premium thing though =P.

The rain issue. Come on, get those tiny satellite dishes out and bring in larger ones! Screw those Ku band dishes. Didn’t you know Malaysia gets rain almost 3 times a week or more?

Anyway, this shall all be revealed this Friday. =)