TrueVisions Launched 17 HD Channels, Blocked Pirate Users Overnight

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TrueVisions Launched 17 HD Channels, Blocked Pirate Users Overnight

Did your TrueVisions settop box fail this morning?

BANGKOK: -- TrueVisions, Thailand’s biggest Thailand's biggest pay TV operator last night converted their broadcast system to the very latest MPEG4 technology, which is supposed to improve picture quality, with the introduction of 17 new HD channels.

TrueVisions subscribers, both satellite-based and fiber optics cable-based systems, was not able to receive any transmission from 11pm last night until 9am this morning.

If you have reception problems today, you can simply try to switch off and unplug your receiver and after a few minutes, plug it in again and turn it on. The receiver will take a moment to reboot and in most cases will function normally.

If you have problems contact TrueVisions Care at 02-725-2525 press 1 then press 4 (between 08:00 to 22:00 daily) Platinum, Gold, Gold Lite and Silver members who have still not swapped to the new HD Plus box, need to contact TrueVisions. Old TrueVisions boxes are not compatible with the new mpeg 4

technology.

Dreamboxes, OpenBoxes and other unauthorized methods of receiving TrueVisions content will not work from today July 16, 2012 as the company now pairs the genuine subscription card with the orginal TrueVisions HD box.

Thaivisa has been informed that the new HD Plus boxes from TrueVisions are temporarily out of stock in some locations and the waiting list is

currently exceeding one month.

10 HD channels included in Platinum package, 10 HD channels in Gold package

New channel line-up promotion video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBvlgZ4v8Qg

Channel line-up from Monday July 16, 2012

-- 2012-07-15

[gbob]

Worked like a charm this morning. No resetting of the box needed. It's about time that TrueVisions finally got around to providing its satellite customers with the promised HD channels. For once I can say thank you, TrueVisions!

[Dirk_brijs]

they have a website with more info?

[thaiexpattv]

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[Lammbock]

Great Updates! Thanks True Visions! A+

[LivinLOS]

Just having a tinker around this morning.. Dreamboxes still receive Thai TV and a smattering of what appeared to be low quality channels. I assume this is the 'knowledge' package ??

The bulk of the premium channels were no signal (not a decryption failure) so will have a tool about with a transponder scan on Thaicom5 and see whats found where.

Before the howls of protest come, I have a full platinum pack and all the a la carte packages fully paid for.. However havent been using the UBC supplied boxes. Looks like I will have to buy a couple of the HD boxes, some hard discs, and have it paired to a new set of cards.

[carra]

hmmmmmmmm my condo has no signal past 109, never has had and despite numerous requests to true I am just told thats the way it is and they will eventually get round to sorting it out with the condo.

That said however I left before 9am this morning so still had no signal at all, will check when I get home and see if this latest upgrade has resolved the problem, but I am not holding my breath.

[YellowHouse]

I don't have satellite or cable TV as yet here in BKK - as I usually get my entertainment from the interweb.

However, I am thinking about getting it.

I heard there was some kind of lifetime subscription or some kind of deal where you only pay 5K for installation etc.

can anyone let me know what the best deal is - ideally one that has free installation, and the rest gets tagged onto my existing internet/phone bill?

Many thanks.

Sausagian.

[manutoo]

I can't notice any quality change on the regular channels, so I guess they lowered their bitrate while swapping to MP4, to give space to the new HD channels, which look great & numerous.

I wonder what happens for customers who were paying 300b / month to get the 3 HD channels prior the upgrade ?

Now, I'd just need to have the subtitles option to choose between English / Thai / Both / Off to be actually working, instead of having forced Thai subtitles all the time, and everything would be alright !

1 last annoying thing though : the oversized & often overcrowding logos ; on some channels, they even adds permanent ads, which can be quite annoying over the time...

[crazykopite]

I am on Koh Samui have the new HD+ box can I get it working have unplugged it taken out card taken out tv aerial at least twice keep getting error 16 plus faint message underneath saying box is rebooting driving me mad true line busy cannot get thru !!!!!! I have a satellite and not cable but thya should not matter !!!!! HELP !!!!!!

[Bagwan]

I was incandescent last evening when True Non-Visions decided to blank out the final stages of the Scottish Open golf tournament at 2300. My excitement had been building over the previous two hours when the result was more and more in doubt and it was becoming a very much nip and tuck affair. At the end of the month my box goes back, with the unpaid monthly invoice, and if they cock up the showing of The Open this week I shall be taking a 4 lb hammer to it before handing it in. Enough is enough.

Anybody advising me that I need a course in anger management can stick his advice where the sun doesn't shine.

[reenatinnakor]

Works great.

Still doesn't make up for the Euro's though. Hope the Olympics is not a broadcasting f...k up.

[Greer]

MPEG4 only results in a better picture quality if the correct bit-rate is used - if a low bit-rate is employed (to stuff more channels in the same space), then you still get poor quality. So it really means that we have to wait and see what they have done in order to add the extra channels - just about to go and take a look (its nearly 10am).

As the extra channels are all HD, they do require quite a bit of extra bandwidth.

The comment that pirate reception has been blocked is pretty silly - they missed adding "for now"...

[pkspeaker]

also I didn't see ASN on the channel list, is that still only on Grammy?? so Truevisions will again feature no american football?

[Ferangled]

Happy days! Well done True, finally we're getting into the 21st century with Thai sat TV!

A decent selection of HD channels, looks and sounds great on a decent AV setup.

[philiplaos]

I live in Vientiane, Laos and along with many expats here have had Thai Visions for several years through a local dealer, for which we have paid the full rate identical to what people pay in Thailand.

Now True Visions have upgraded their signal to HDTV and installed software to prevent people pirating their signal. I suspected that was what our 'agent' was doing since I couldn't take the a la carte BBC Entertainment option and emailing True Visions in Bangkok produced the response: "We have no agent in Vientiane."

Now we have no TV. What to do?

Philip

Edited July 16, 2012 by philiplaos

[dominique355]

Dreamboxes, OpenBoxes and other unauthorized methods of receiving TrueVisions content will not work from today July 16, 2012 as the company now pairs the genuine subscription card with the orginal TrueVisions HD box.

Why would they claim the use of a Dreambox is unauthorized?

It is not, at least not if you are a regular subscriber to Truevisions and simply insert your decoder card from Truevisions into the Dreambox.

There is no law or contract stipulation which forces you to use the hardware supplied by Truevisions.

The reason why Truevisions doesn't want people to use the Dreambox is because the Dreambox can record and Truevisions cannot charge an additional fee to recording, as they do now with the new box (99 THB per month).

Edited July 16, 2012 by dominique355

[Baerboxer]

I was incandescent last evening when True Non-Visions decided to blank out the final stages of the Scottish Open golf tournament at 2300. My excitement had been building over the previous two hours when the result was more and more in doubt and it was becoming a very much nip and tuck affair. At the end of the month my box goes back, with the unpaid monthly invoice, and if they cock up the showing of The Open this week I shall be taking a 4 lb hammer to it before handing it in. Enough is enough.

Anybody advising me that I need a course in anger management can stick his advice where the sun doesn't shine.

Know what you mean Bagwan! Just got to the exciting finale of the film I was watching and suddenly replaced with a sign apologzing for inconvenience ! Having screwed up on EURO 2012, cutting all programs for 10 hours to "upgrade", let's see how wonderful the Olympic coverage is, if at all. Mighr need my lump hammer too.

[LivinLOS]

Dreamboxes, OpenBoxes and other unauthorized methods of receiving TrueVisions content will not work from today July 16, 2012 as the company now pairs the genuine subscription card with the orginal TrueVisions HD box.

Why would they claim the use of a Dreambox is unauthorized?

It is not, at least not if you are a regular subscriber to Truevisions and simply insert your decoder card from Truevisions into the Dreambox.

There is no law or contract stipulation which forces you to use the hardware supplied by Truevisions.

The reason why Truevisions doesn't want people to use the Dreambox is because the Dreambox can record and Truevisions cannot charge an additional fee to recording, as they do now ith the new box.

And the fact that for years they would sell the subscription cards without any equipment rental also.

[Ferangled]

I was incandescent last evening when True Non-Visions decided to blank out the final stages of the Scottish Open golf tournament at 2300. My excitement had been building over the previous two hours when the result was more and more in doubt and it was becoming a very much nip and tuck affair. At the end of the month my box goes back, with the unpaid monthly invoice, and if they cock up the showing of The Open this week I shall be taking a 4 lb hammer to it before handing it in. Enough is enough.

Anybody advising me that I need a course in anger management can stick his advice where the sun doesn't shine.

You need a course in anger management!

True had advertised this change over and when it would take place for bloody months, frequent banners across the bottom of the screen and they even marked it on the TV guide so no one could have any excuse for not knowing when it would happen.

They had to take the service off line at some point to enact the changes and a IMHO a few disgruntled late night golf viewers is a fair price to pay for the vast improvement to the HD channel line-up!

[LivinLOS]

I live in Vientiane, Laos and along with many expats here have had Thai Visions for several years through a local dealer, for which we have paid the full rate identical to what people pay in Thailand.

Now True Visions have upgraded their signal to HDTV and installed software to prevent people pirating their signal. I suspected that was what our 'agent' was doing since I couldn't take the a la carte BBC Entertainment option and emailing True Visions in Bangkok produced the response: "We have no agent in Vientiane."

No we have no TV. What to do?

Philip

I am sure the same agent will be able to supply you an 'imported' box and card pairing.

I am in cambodia in a few days and I bet the bars there will be howling for boxes. I bet someone could make a nice little earner out of being first in line with 100 UBC HD boxes and HD paired cards. Some of those sports bars need the feed to keep trade alive.

[Ferangled]

Dreamboxes, OpenBoxes and other unauthorized methods of receiving TrueVisions content will not work from today July 16, 2012 as the company now pairs the genuine subscription card with the orginal TrueVisions HD box.

Why would they claim the use of a Dreambox is unauthorized?

It is not, at least not if you are a regular subscriber to Truevisions and simply insert your decoder card from Truevisions into the Dreambox.

There is no law or contract stipulation which forces you to use the hardware supplied by Truevisions.

The reason why Truevisions doesn't want people to use the Dreambox is because the Dreambox can record and Truevisions cannot charge an additional fee to recording, as they do now ith the new box.

And the fact that for years they would sell the subscription cards without any equipment rental also.

I don't believe that they have made these encoding and encryption changes purely to stop people using 3rd party hardware recording functions. While a minority of people might use the Dreambox for this, the vast majority do so to gain illegal access to Truevisions content.

Clearly it is the latter that they are trying to stamp out as the lost revenue from recording is insignificant compared to the lost revenue from piracy.

[Sampattaya]

Just my opinion, but True is crap! I've had it for over 15 years and have never been satisfied with it, service, content or quality. If ever another legitimate satellite company is allowed to do business here I'll sign up. I can hear people now, "Why would you have it for 15 years if it's crap"? Two phrases come to mind "the only game in town" and "the best of the worst".

[pianoman]

Can anyone explain to the Technologically Challenged Old Guy how to put channels into the "News" / "Movies" / "Sports" sections???? Seems that all I can do is put everything into "Favorites"....

Appreciate any and all Help / Suggestions....

Pianoman

[dighambara]

I was incandescent last evening when True Non-Visions decided to blank out the final stages of the Scottish Open golf tournament at 2300. My excitement had been building over the previous two hours when the result was more and more in doubt and it was becoming a very much nip and tuck affair. At the end of the month my box goes back, with the unpaid monthly invoice, and if they cock up the showing of The Open this week I shall be taking a 4 lb hammer to it before handing it in. Enough is enough.

Anybody advising me that I need a course in anger management can stick his advice where the sun doesn't shine.

You need a course in anger management!

True had advertised this change over and when it would take place for bloody months, frequent banners across the bottom of the screen and they even marked it on the TV guide so no one could have any excuse for not knowing when it would happen.

They had to take the service off line at some point to enact the changes and a IMHO a few disgruntled late night golf viewers is a fair price to pay for the vast improvement to the HD channel line-up!

HMMM - logic be damned - convert during prime viewing, instead of 0:30AM - 10AM, when nothing much is happening...

Edited July 16, 2012 by dighambara

[kiwiinasia]

No matter what they do someone will figure out a way to crack the system and make some money.

[philiplaos]

I live in Vientiane, Laos and along with many expats here have had Thai Visions for several years through a local dealer, for which we have paid the full rate identical to what people pay in Thailand.

Now True Visions have upgraded their signal to HDTV and installed software to prevent people pirating their signal. I suspected that was what our 'agent' was doing since I couldn't take the a la carte BBC Entertainment option and emailing True Visions in Bangkok produced the response: "We have no agent in Vientiane."

No we have no TV. What to do?

Philip

I am sure the same agent will be able to supply you an 'imported' box and card pairing.

I am in cambodia in a few days and I bet the bars there will be howling for boxes. I bet someone could make a nice little earner out of being first in line with 100 UBC HD boxes and HD paired cards. Some of those sports bars need the feed to keep trade alive.

If that's the case, then it renders True Visions' latest blocking tactic pointless, doesn't it?

Philip

[chuckd]

Just having a tinker around this morning.. Dreamboxes still receive Thai TV and a smattering of what appeared to be low quality channels. I assume this is the 'knowledge' package ??

The bulk of the premium channels were no signal (not a decryption failure) so will have a tool about with a transponder scan on Thaicom5 and see whats found where.

Before the howls of protest come, I have a full platinum pack and all the a la carte packages fully paid for.. However havent been using the UBC supplied boxes. Looks like I will have to buy a couple of the HD boxes, some hard discs, and have it paired to a new set of cards.

MY RECEIVER AND SMART CARD ARE NOT PIRATED VERSIONS.

I am in the same shape you are. I have been a gold subscriber for five years and my receiver gets no signal on anything except the free channels.

My receiver is a Humax IR-H100S and was purchased by me five years ago from the True office in Nong Bua Lamphu. My smart card would only work on that receiver and still works, except the reception has now been blocked.

Can anybody tell me if I have to drive 60 kilometers to the nearest True office and get one of their receivers and, if so, what is the thing going to cost me? I have paid 1,413 Baht every 30 days for those five years, providing my own legal receiver, and now True pulls this crap on their customers.

I live between Udorn and Loei and would quite happily drop True if there was anything else available. I am NOT a happy camper!

[aussiebebe]

None of the new HD channels make me regret cancelling my subscription with True. If I wanted to pay to be brainwashed, I'd join Scientology. Moronic commercial breaks for 40% of the time aren't any more palatable in HD.

[Pib]

I'm on cable TrueVisions and have three HD boxes. At around 8:35am this morning I had sound on all three boxes but could only get a brief flash of a picture when changing channels. First tried powering the boxes off and on...didn't help. Then tried resetting the subscription cards again...didn't help. I then did the System/Signal reset on the boxes as decribed in the Thai language video clips on the TrueVisions web site...that fixed the problem on the boxes...boxes now fully working again.