Re: will directv of us ever become a reality in th

[yoda4806]

Being A college football fan(Texas Longhorns), I access the game on the internet via Yahoo and ESPN Gamecast.

I do miss the Directv Gameplan.  Are there any weird satelites available to pick uplive feeds of the games from the US.

I have the UBC in Udon Thani but the sports shown sofar exclude college football.  If DSL technology were more advanced, that might be an option.

Would even travel to a sports bar in BKK for a big game.

Thanks in advance for any advice?

[ChiangMaiThai]

Hi there,

I posted a question a while back asking how we could access Live US TV for the same reason. (Although my allegiance is with Colorado, sorry). As far as sattelite, from the responses I got, apparently we are on the wrong side of the world and because the curve in the earth, all the satellite programming here is Indian, Chinese, Australian etc.

Someone mentioned the TV which the US troops get to watch (Armed Services TV?), but I haven't heard if that's available for non-military people.

One guy mentioned that with fibre optics, in a few years, everything will be available- for a price. I don't know...

Another guy figured out a way to plug his computer back home into his cable box. With some software, he could control his computer back home via the internet and tell it to start recording. It worked no problem. The idea was to then download to his computer here. But with the speed of internet here, I think it took forever. When DSL is available here, then this way would be an option.

So for now it seems the only way is to have friends record and send you DVD's or tapes. Remember, there are different formats so they'd either have to have a muti format recorder or you would have to have a multi format player.

UBC never shows college football. Guess there's not a market for it here. I've got to think that US diplomats around the world do have the privlages of tapping into some American signal to keep them up to date on the happenings back home. I guess we'll never know.

[TizMe]

all the satellite programming here is Indian, Chinese, Australian etc.

With the World Cup Rugby about to start in Oz, maybe its time to change your allegiance to the "real game".