Checking out Hypp.TV – Local Video Content Finally!
I recently found out about a new initiative from TM called Hypp.TV. Basically it’s a new site delivering free and premium video content on a local platform, which is great for people who are into the whole rich media scene of Web two point oh. I managed to get a free trial and checked it out.
With everyone addicted to Flickr and Youtube, Malaysia needs more local content as our International peering is slow, loading from US or European sites is troublesome and sometimes nearly impossible. Even accessing specialised IPTV services such as Joost can be tough.
This is where Hypp.TV hopes to come in, it's starting off by offering content focused on football, mainly from the EPL (Barclays Premier League) where subscribers can log on and watch match highlights, exclusive round up videos, special themed clips and such.
The site layout is pretty standard, quite graphics heavy, but that's expected for a rich media site.
You can find the news channel here:
And free content from the local scene here:
The premium content such as the football media is very affordable at RM9.90 for Streamyx subscribers and RM14.90 for non-subscribers per month. You can find the full rates here. With the cost of registration at only RM89.90 for a year, that’s a measly 25 cents per DAY!
The videos buffer fast and the picture quality is definitely better than Youtube, it seems to have some problems streaming the high quality version though.
They also currently have a contest going on where you can win a 3-month subscription for top Barclays Premier League Content absolutely FREE!
All you need to do to win a 3-month subscription to top BPL videos is answer two simple questions and complete the slogan, you can find out more and enter the contest at:
Fans get it!
No commentsTmnut again
Ah so many posts to write, Tmnut is playing silly buggers the last few days.
Most of the time I can't access Flickr, can't access any sites hosted on blogspot, sometimes can't connect to any Google services, can't connect to MSN..
And when it's all working it's so terribly slow, even surfing is a pain.
This is what we get when we pay for broadband eh?
I wish they would stop selling and marketing and start investing back in the infrastructure, let's upgrade the international links PLEASE.
Let's get regular trans-atlantic pings of less than 300ms please!
I've noticed recently they are super efficient when it comes to cutting your line too, if you don't pay by the day stated on the bill they really cut you off within a few hours and you have to pay the RM10 reconnection charge.
They are really rather organised when it comes to collecting the money for their half-arsed service.
If only they paid so much attention to the actual service they are supposed to be providing, customer service orientation is not something that is prevalent in Malaysia anyway.
I guess things might change if Streamyx is not the monopoly, if they eventually unbundle the local loop things might change...
Might I say, with great trepidation.
At least it with allow for some smaller guys to come in and run service based companies rather than just sell sell sell, typical of any monopoly.
It was the same in UK when British Telecom held the ADSL power-card, until they unbundled the local loop, the service and pricing was much the same as Streamyx.
Legislation forced them to surrender the monopoly though and now UK is a country with extremely affordable, very high quality ADSL. Most of my friends are using 8mb ADSL, which really gives 8MB internationally...economically they pay around RM120 per month for the service.
And here we are paying RM88 for a 1MB line which only gives 1MB into the Tmnet network, perhaps on a good day getting 300-500kbps internationally.
When is the last time I downloaded something on my Streamyx at over 100k/s? I don't even remember.
1MB should give downloads of around 115k/s ideally.
I doub't I'll get the TMnet CEO coming to my house, but still...
16 commentsStreamyx Sucks AGAIN
AHGRH!H!H!
Meant to post some more pics over the weekend, got lots to do...but Streamyx was down since 11am Saturday morning.
Until now.
I called them twice, apparently they are having some major nationwide outage...I wonder what happened I really do.
There's nothing on the Streamyx site about this either, it's out of date.
Can't they just keep us informed?
Is it too much to ask for a stable connection? I've given up dreaming of decent latency and a good ping time for gaming as they continue oversubscribing.
Can't you buggers work on the weekend too? If you call at the weekend the earliest they can look at is Monday..
Gee thanks, I happen to be most productive at the weekends, especially for my online business..
That means I'm losing money and many hours of productivity due to your unforseen downtime.
I ended up playing a lot of Call of Duty 2 though, which was cool!
And finished a bottle of Glenfiddich 12 year old, cheap crap.
It's the same story during holidays as well, if your net happens to be down during Raya, good luck, might get it back in 10 days time..
What exactly is it we are paying for?
I saw a new promotion for RM77 aswell, so new subscribers are getting a cheaper deal than us existing customers? Why don't we cancel and subscribe again? Get another free modem and shit?
Doesn't make any sense to me really.
The Malaysian Internet Exchange is supposed to be coming up soon, which will introduce cross-ISP peering..this might really help the net problems we have. I'll get more info about that soon, I'll publish what I have now on Monster.
9 commentsStreamyX Goes From Bad to Worse..
Unsuprising, look at this, looks like the International link has been replaced by a single 56k dialup line..
Restarted the connection, even got onto a different IP block..still the same urgh.
Broadband or narrowband? The answer seems obvious.
The only thing that's transparent about TMnut is their blatant disregard for quality of service and the importance of customer satisfaction (and not overloading their international links).
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