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a recommendation for a satelite tv please

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kiskidee · 03/10/2006 21:13

i want to get french and spanish telly. what is available out there? and do they service the whole country as i am in the NE. what sort of costs etc?

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MrsSchadenfreude · 03/10/2006 21:34

I'd like to know as well, please. Am missing the German Ooompah bands on Prime Time TV on a Saturday night and the webcam of all the Flemish towns in the rain!

lucy5 · 03/10/2006 21:39

On the sky package that I have we only get one Spanish channel. Will have to check what it is.

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kiskidee · 03/10/2006 21:41

yes, i have the sky package but TVE is quite blah. would like a bit more choice - even if its got loads of novelas i have to wade past. (funny how you can get nostalgic for the most gawdawful things)

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lucy5 · 03/10/2006 21:50

I have british tv in Spain, so surely you must be able to get it in reverse. Not quite sure how though. Sorry, those novellas are pure cheese but highly watchable.

annasmami · 04/10/2006 10:27

You can get a lot of German and some other European channels by getting a satellite dish which needs to be directed towards the ASTRA satellite. No running costs, only the one off set up cost.

JoannaArcher1 · 04/09/2007 23:25

Have just installed an 80cm diameter dish pointing at two satellites: Hotbird and Astra 1.

Managed to get Rai due which has almost wall-to-wall children's programmes called 'Random', sort of like CeeBeebies.

See www.latvdeiragazzi.rai.it

In German I think I'll be able to watch www.tivi.de and www.kika.de and there's www.nickelodeon.nl...still looking for others.

These are ALL free channels.

kindersurprise · 04/09/2007 23:42

Oh, sounds interesting. We have just ordered, and are impatiently awaiting, a sat dish for watching British TV in Germany. We might have to move to England next year, I assume we can use the same dish to get the German channels in UK?

The grass is always greener... and all that

JoannaArcher1 · 06/09/2007 12:23

Check out [http://www.digitalsat.co.uk].

It's not the dish that you need to worry about, as far as I can gather, but the slots for the cards if you decide to subscribe to a package. I have a 'standard' UK slot and a place where I can put a CAM (conditional access module) which is a sort of adaptor so I could subscribe to a non-UK Satellite TV provider.

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