Centralised Astro dish used by selected High Rise Buildings
Some of the building managements of high rise buildings such as apartments/flats, condominiums, offices, are not allowed to install Astro dish at the balcony of your unit, otherwise the building block will be filled with satellite dishes installed by residents, hence affecting the overall outlook of the building and making it look ugly. You wouldn't want the building to look like this picture below, isn't?
Picture for illustration and reference purposes only. Source
Therefore, your building management uses SMATV (or known as Single Master Antenna Television, or Satellite Master Antenna Television), where a centralised satellite dish for Astro and an UHF antenna for terrestrial TV is installed on top of the building to supply/distribute TV signals to every household of the building, internally. This also solves the problem when a particular unit is not possible to install individual Astro satellite dish as the dish are unable to face west (for Peninsular Malaysia) to the sky. For example your balcony is facing east but you are unable to receive satellite signal from Astro as your satellite dish needs to be facing west.
My building is not fully supports HD? Astro PVR requires 2 cables but my unit only has 1 satellite port from the wall point, yet I want to enjoy both HD and PVR services?
Astro did some satellite frequencies adjustment to allow all buildings that uses centralised satellite dish where previously does not fully supports HD to be able to watch all HD channels without "No Signal" issue. The HD channels reception issue for centralise dish users, has been solved.
Only has 1 satellite port available from the wall point? No worries. Previous solutions such as laying another cable to your premise or SatCR is no longer available as Astro now uses dCSS LN to eliminate the need of requiring 2 separate cables to be connected to Astro box (including customers that uses individual satellite dish in landed properties), as well as solves the issue of having only 1 cable/port from wall point.
Here's a statement from Astro:
Only has 1 satellite port available from the wall point? No worries. Previous solutions such as laying another cable to your premise or SatCR is no longer available as Astro now uses dCSS LN to eliminate the need of requiring 2 separate cables to be connected to Astro box (including customers that uses individual satellite dish in landed properties), as well as solves the issue of having only 1 cable/port from wall point.
Here's a statement from Astro:
We regret to inform that LNB and SatCR is no longer in our production. However, DCSS and Splitter will be provided for free of charge for standard installation type (surface cabling with 15 meter satellite cable) for PVR installation. Additional charges will be applied should the installation is require more than 15 meters of satellite cable or any other additional supporting device.
This is how the dCSS LNB supplied by Astro look like
In conclusion, the HD and PVR issues you faced on your high rise buildings has been solved.
- No more signal conflict between SD or HD channels.
- No longer need to connect 2 satellite cables to your Astro box.
- Building's centralise antenna system needs to be upgraded to the dCSS system for it work, and customer just have to change the Input Type setting.
- It is backward compatible if the Input Type is set to "Universal" especially for Astro HD boxes or Njoi boxes.
- Astro Ultra Box users can use only either dCSS or customer's existing SatCR LNB (if have). You will not be able to receive any signals for UHD channels if your LNB is the common Universal type, regardless of single, dual or quad outputs.
Contact your building management or Astro at this number +603 7490 8000
to identify if your building's centralise antenna supports the latest dCSS system.
to identify if your building's centralise antenna supports the latest dCSS system.