Astro HD launching this Friday

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. =)

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6 comments

  1. hermmmmmm….i thought the hd will be in 720p? the newspaper gt report about it few days ago~

    and the new decorder will be having the plug n play function?

    bt nt all the content will be coming in HD..only selected ..

    correct me if i am wrong :roll:

    • youliang
    • December 10th, 2009

    @sie khai
    i saw 1080.. anyway 720 is fine with me as long as the prices are ok. lol.
    if only they allowed me to use my pc as the decoder.. ahhaha it would be so much more powerful than what they use for that price.
    yup only some content

  3. wow!! the price are ok ahh? astro never come cheap~

    you mention that, [ Anyway it doesn’t really matter as long you sit far enough from the screen and its not larger than 42? ]

    the living room, the size of the living room? should be hw big? for to be less than 42″?

    • DeVaL!aN
    • December 11th, 2009

    @sie khai, this admin told me before there is a measurement. hypothesis is : the larger your screen, then further minimum distance of ur eyes from the surface of the screen.

    u google it a bit la.. haha…

    i luckily not a astro fan boy.. tak minat n dun even bother to look at it even is HD soon..

    • youliang
    • December 11th, 2009

    sie khai :

    wow!! the price are ok ahh? astro never come cheap~

    you mention that, [ Anyway it doesn’t really matter as long you sit far enough from the screen and its not larger than 42? ]

    the living room, the size of the living room? should be hw big? for to be less than 42??

    if my memory still serves me correctly, 42″ should be 12 feet to 15feet away../

    • youliang
    • December 11th, 2009

    anyway did a quick google search and saw this site.. you can try keying in the numbers.
    http://www.dtvcity.com/lcdtv/lcdscreensize.html

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