Comments on: HD MyStar by end of year

By: ADRIAN

ADRIAN — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:56:20 +0000

I have a mystar box not the HD box. Only weeks after it was delivered foxtel started broadcasting adds for a HD box. So i instantly rang austar to ask when I’m going to be able to watch these channels on my existing mystar box, I was told this would not happen for up to 2 years and the first mystar box launched is apable of displaying high definition channels! Now look what has happened to a corporate commodity with no competing broadcasters in this country. Australia is the only country in the world that a telecommunication company owns a broadcasting company . This results in every single Aussie paying ridiculous prices for inferior products and extremely poor services! To Foxtel/Austar your a brother sister company pull your finger out!

By: austar

austar — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:27:50 +0000

I won’t be upgrading to Austar HD until they give me the option to upgrade without their s****y $14.95 MyStar HD which I don’t even need. I already have a DVR and I doo not want to pay $14.95 extra for something I don’t need or want!!!

By: mikey

mikey — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:03:03 +0000

I truly hate Austar and their crappy box, It is the buggiest piece of consumer hardware I have ever seen. I’ve had all the above problems and many more. Anyone try to watch the Obama inauguration speech? If you have Mystar you will have missed most of it as the ‘blue screen’ popped up. Its like Microsofts blue screen but with godawful music added!

I cant get FTA rception so I had no choice when it was released, but my god what a different mob Austar/Poxtel would be if they had any competition! Every time they claim they will give you something, it means they will actually take something.

We got it because they had two AFL channels. It was great. I could work all night and watch Footy instead of infomercials. Then there was only one AFL channel. please or thank you, in fact one employee even denied they ever had two AFL channels!!!! Then there were none! Never been so disappointed, but at least they replayed the games half a dozen times. Not even that now. 1 replay on a Tuesday…thats it. Usually in the middle of the night.

Clearly Rupert has invested in soccer, yeah that’s right mate, we callt soccer here! every 2nd show on their 12 sport channels is bloody soccer, either that or the East Bulgarian Women’s knitting finals!

“I hate my Foxtel!……..”

By: Kat

Kat — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:03:09 +0000

A HD MyStar seems pointless for me because our setup is fully SD. Having said that, if that means we get BBC HD and it is viewable on an SD TV (in SD quality of course) then I might consider it.

So when are we getting BBC Knowledge? I emailed Austar in February after the announcement of 111 coming and their reply was that they were not interested in pursuing it at the time. I wouldn’t mind so much but they advertise it like mad on UKTV and I’ve seen a lot of things I’d like to watch being advertisied

By: ted

ted — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:55:47 +0000

Hi all i had my star installed today it has been too a black screen i unplug it and plug it back in then i got a picture and now it cuts out and start rescanning for the channels my is this happen if it does keep happing i will just buy a sattelite set top box

By: Troy

Troy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:06:00 +0000

I’ve had My Star now for awhile an i had no problems with it
but if you want bug free My Star or My star HD you wont get it

By: jason dinalt

jason dinalt — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:46:54 +0000

We have two mystars, double the trouble!

One hardly ever fails, except it wont display prime newcastle off mt sugarloaf, just gives a black screen. Plug in a STB or digital TV into the same outlet and prime is fine, signal is strong so its the POS mystars problem.

The other however, is a POS! Consistent recording failed messages, black screen recordings, slow response to the remote, when fast forwarding it can take up to a minute to respond to the remote, delete a recording in the planner and it just changes to “viewed”, delete the second time and it goes but often so does the recording in the list below it! And it to refuses to show Prime Newcastle, but only after 6pm! in the daytime it does show Prime, and same as the other plug in a STB to the same outlet and Prime is fine.

I for one cant/wont believe that the HD Mystar will be any better, its taken them years to bring out the first mystar and its been one bug after another!

By: Karlston

Karlston — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:08:41 +0000

After experiencing the SD MyStar for the last 18 months, no thanks! The current one is so full of bugs, it’s staggering. Series Linked bookings disappear overnight, ignores remote, first 2 minutes of recordings cut off, previous show added in full or part to front of recordings..

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:49:25 +0000

Shane, I’ve never had that problem but occassionally if I have been watching one channel for over an hour and then pause it, when i try to resume it it goes back an hour and instead of resuming at “-2 mins” it resumes at “-62 mins”. There are quite a few bugs with the mystar.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:59:06 +0000

At home we have had Mystar for about 2 years. We are already on the second box as the 1st one blew up after about 3 months.

We constantly record programs only to find a black screen when we go back to view them. Anyone else have this problem?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:18:37 +0000

Tom, I asked Austar about that once and they told me they couldnt broadcast the FTA networks due to TV licensing issues. Foxtel can broadcast them because they only cover the same areas as the metropolitan FTA networks whereas Austar covers everywhere else which has many different regional FTA networks. The FTA networks are not allowed to broadcast outside their licensed area.

Although, they could get around it by using the same concept they use for the ABC. ABC1 is on 196 in QLD, 197, 198, etc. for other states. However with atleast 2 or 3 networks in each license area and many license areas, channel numbering could get confusing.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:32:10 +0000

I understand they don’t currently deliver those channels but i hope Austar eventually does. Yes i’m not holding my breath! It would be a godsend for people who live where i live.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:39:41 +0000

No Tom, it doesn’t carry the FTA channels, only ABC1, ABC2, SBS1 and SBS2. Austar does provide the EPG for the FTA channels but doesn’t broadcast the channels. If you currently don’t get a decent reception with a digital tuner then the Mystar will not change that.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:02:43 +0000

So will it actually carry 10,9 & 7?

Because i don’t get a decent reception via free to air methods, digital or analogue, we are in a country blackspot. The Govt. has spent $200,000 trying to deliver them and they still don’t work well. I would kill to get them via Austar.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:12:29 +0000

Tom, It will only change ur reception if u dont have a set top box. its just a digital tuner.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:02:07 +0000

If it brings a watchable reception of 10,9 & 7 to country blackspots then I will get it, cause right now i can’t watch 10 or 7 becasue the reception is no good. Fingers crossed.