For years I haven’t watched TV…

that is until this little fella came along.

It started off with me getting an additional Astro subscription to Baby TV for background noise for when Fighter is playing. Yea I know TV isn’t supposed to be good for babies but I believe in everything in moderation. Plus Fighter doesn’t seem too interested (not to say addicted) to the screen yet so it’s all good.

Anyway we recently got the new Astro B.yond decoder with PVR capabilities and built-in wifi connection!  Yep now can connect to your home wifi already!

To connect your PVR to wifi, just go to Home – Setting – Network – Network Preference. Then pick your preference of wifi and which network.

With wifi, there’s a whole set of new functions and capabilities.

Record your favourite programmes, with a large hard disk space of 500GB capacity for over 290 hours of SD and up to 100 hours of HD recording.

Ehehe the first program I recorded was Glee.  Because Fatty don’t wanna watch anymore, I have to record it and watch myself.

Series Link: With just one click, all the episodes of your favourite TV programmes are queued and set to record automatically.

Hehe that’s what I did with Glee.  Recorded the whole season 5 to watch at my leisure.  Also some episodes of How I Met Your Mother which I hadn’t watched yet.

Pause and rewind as you wish. Catch instant replays of missed action, or simply pause and resume watching whenever it’s convenient.

For times when you watching halfway and suddenly diarrhea strikes you in the butt! Hehehe don’t need to tahan until the commercials, simply click pause and run to the toilet.  Then continue later when you’re ready.

Dual tuner lets you record 2 programmes simultaneously while watching a pre-recorded show.

This is one of the coolest, most high tech sounding features. To me la ok! *feels my age

Basically you’re allowed to record up to two different shows, and then open up one of your other previously recorded programs and watch that, all at the same time.  I don’t watch thaat much TV la so I haven’t really utilized this function.

Remote Record

With Wifi now you can record programs from anywhere – just use the Astro View App or website, choose your program, then click record.  You can opt to record one episode or the whole series like Series Link. Can even record up to 7 days in advance.

Wi-Fi enabled

And if you still forgot to Remote Record, you can still catch TV shows you missed! Once you connect your home internet to the PVR, you can use it to download Video on Demand and Catch Up TV. For busy people, it means that we don’t need to wait for the time the program is running to catch it but can just download them to watch.  Our TV consumption habits are so different now from 20 years ago so it’s wonderful that Astro caught on to that.

OMG classic Disney!! Come to mama!  Uhhh I mean this in a pure motherly sense and it’s really for Fighter. *lying

There’s over 6,000 movies and TV shows available!!!

Super simple la just click on VOD button on your remote control and select a title.

And just key in your PIN to purchase the movie.

More Disney favorites!

Be our guest! Be our guest! Put our service to the test!

The clawwww.. it moves!

The seaweed is always greener, in somebody else’s lake~

Besides Disney, a lot of other genres and languages too of course.

vi) An updated TV Guide

TV Guide is now multilingual, plus with an enhanced Video On Demand (VOD) catalogue (better browsing and search capabilities). and an improved recording experience meaning you can now manage and browse your PVR recordings and VOD purchases, all from one place.

Some of my PVR recordings.  Yea I quite like trashy TV shows hahaha.

I’ve been having a lot of fun finding shows to record and watch since I’m home most of the time. (hello auntiedom here I come).  I think it’s made me like watching TV all over again! It’s nice to have something play in the background while I go about the daily duties with Fighter. 🙂

For more info on Astro B.yond PVR, go here.