blackrobe;212130 said:WEiii...Uncle XXX, u the one who wrote ur complaint in the Online Consumer Forum arrrr.....??
Anyways, I think it boils down to arrogance and CORRUPTION..... why isnt there any competitor? Shot down and taken out?
blackrobe;212130 said:WEiii...Uncle XXX, u the one who wrote ur complaint in the Online Consumer Forum arrrr.....??
Anyways, I think it boils down to arrogance and CORRUPTION..... why isnt there any competitor? Shot down and taken out?
fabianyee;212155 said:I can understand why there is no competition. Not because of corruption. Anyone can start a competing company but ARSETRO has aledi been established with big customer base and the necessary infrastructure. For a 'competent' competition to jump in and fight for the pie will not be easy and cheap. Remember the time when ARSETRO was charging so much more for the dish and decoder? Now they can literally give you the dish and decoder FOC and earn from the monthly subscription.
And bear in mind that the good programmes has aledi been bought or signed by ARSETRO, so the 'newcomers' would not have much choices of quality programmes to offer as alternatives. So now, if you can come up with a proposal for an alternative station to rival ARSETRO with guaranteed returns in 3 years' time, you can be a very very rich man cos there won't be short of investors.
BTW, is MiTV still around??? I guess with VT behind, it still lacks the competitive edge...
fabianyee;212155 said:I can understand why there is no competition. Not because of corruption. Anyone can start a competing company but ARSETRO has aledi been established with big customer base and the necessary infrastructure. For a 'competent' competition to jump in and fight for the pie will not be easy and cheap. Remember the time when ARSETRO was charging so much more for the dish and decoder? Now they can literally give you the dish and decoder FOC and earn from the monthly subscription.
And bear in mind that the good programmes has aledi been bought or signed by ARSETRO, so the 'newcomers' would not have much choices of quality programmes to offer as alternatives. So now, if you can come up with a proposal for an alternative station to rival ARSETRO with guaranteed returns in 3 years' time, you can be a very very rich man cos there won't be short of investors.
BTW, is MiTV still around??? I guess with VT behind, it still lacks the competitive edge...
535i;213779 said:4:00 pm + Sunday 13/5.
Here I am - watching channel 78 ...
It was raining, lightning, thunderstorm ... everything ...
damn ..... what a way to spend my Sunday ...
hey .. wait a minute ... !! I am watching ARSETRO !!
I did not get 'Service Not Available' ......
Am I dreaming ... ?
535i;213779 said:4:00 pm + Sunday 13/5.
Here I am - watching channel 78 ...
It was raining, lightning, thunderstorm ... everything ...
damn ..... what a way to spend my Sunday ...
hey .. wait a minute ... !! I am watching ARSETRO !!
I did not get 'Service Not Available' ......
Am I dreaming ... ?
LCP;213784 said:It is possible, as the rain clouds may not be thick enough at that particular direction facing the satellite from your home.
I learnt that if you really really aligned the dish till it is very very optimised, it will be harder for the reception to be disrupted by rain.
viewfinder;213985 said:I've fixed up my satelite dish on my own. No matter how I adjust the direction, the reception signal strength as shown on the Astro decoder is never 100% (green bar). What other tricks are there?
fabianyee;213979 said:Maybe it's bright and sunny at the broadcasting center... If my understanding of how-it-works is correct, I deduced that the signals has to come from the ground to the satellite before it gets beamed to your satellite dish... So the signal disruptions would occur if the weather condition is bad between the line-of-sight from the broadcast center to the satellite and from the satellite to your house...
flash;213992 said:The best I can get is around 68%, no matter how I twist and turn the dish. But as long as I can watch ARSETRO, no issues. I have got colleagues who cannot even get a decent signal....