Question: Why satellite disc is illegal unless it is provided by Astro
I still briefly remember those days when we did not have Astro, we paid rm25 per year, if we were honest enough to own up that we had TV, or play hide & seek with RTM inspectors to find out.
Well, in those days, if you don’t need external antenna, you could probably get away with it.
But anyway, our government, those days were not really interested in catching you.
What was more important, was the information/propaganda that they could dish out. Eventually this gave way to 'free for all' and a few more channels were added, those were the ‘golden era’ of RTM and Malaysia broadcasting.
Those days, the shows seemed to run longer between advertisements, in fact I think just about 3 minutes of ads between show, with more up-to-date movies/entertainments and less repetitions.
Like everything in Malaysia, all good things must come to an end, it is just too tempting for creative entrepreneurs, not to take advantage of it.
Inevitably, then came Astro, packaged it up with tax payers’ paid stations and other free stations, threw in some extras and priced it at minimum rm37.95, and payment on monthly basis. A far cry from those days when we paid only RM25 per YEAR and later free.
The days that we had 'free and good' entertainments were over or at least partially curtailed. One may argue, we can still get it free from those broadcasted from ‘local originals’.
But there is no longer any improvement, the transmission is so bad & weak that you just have to give up. Because Astro is making all the money, it is just like a free for all scramble, you get more advertisement-time programmed, cheap & outdated entertainments with lots of repeats, just like the Astro.
It is just so typical with Malaysia's so-called entrepreneurs, get the tax payers to pay for it then package it up and sell it back to them, nothing beats such 'creative business'.
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