The Best Options For Tv

[OxfordWill]

Does anyone have any good tips to share about which TV service is best and provides most channels? All I hear about is True Visions- is this basically the only choice?

[Richmah]

well for me, Astro is still the best, compare to true. Astro even hv more HD channels. Try it.

[astral]

True is the only legal service in Thailand, as they have a monopoly.....

Astro is Malaysia and you my have difficulty getting the cards to receive it.

[Phil Conners]

Astro can not legally be used here hence why it is against the forum rules to discuss it.

[geovalin]

TRUE has NO exclusivity at all.

There are 500 small cable operators in Thailand. In any city.

In Bangkok, you can take the "cable next door" which will be small, cheap and with a so-so quality.

Nowadays, there a big cable operator in Bangkok:

http://www.charoencabletv.com/EN/

80 channels.

Of course it depends on which channels you wish.

Edited May 10, 2010 by geovalin

[astral]

TRUE has the only government licence for satellite services.

No other companies are permitted to sell their services in Thailand.

Viewing FTA satellite services is OK, but not very inspiring as most of the good channels are encrypted.

I suspect that the cable operators are technically illegal, but they help the low end of the market

who cannot afford the offerings of TRUE, so they are not a threat.

IME cable operators do not offer stereo sound either, so the film experience is diminished.

Looking at the 80 channels from Charoen Cable I do not see much that would inspire me to subscribe.

For a start there are no International News channels like BBC, CNN........

[Khutan]

....Looking at the 80 channels from Charoen Cable I do not see much that would inspire me to subscribe.

For a start there are no International News channels like BBC, CNN........

They have Fox news for what that is worth. It also looks like much of their content if from Free to Air feeds such as Channel News Asia, Gang Cartoon Network etc.

[jfchandler]

Actually, in their full channel list, I'm seeing:

Universal Channel

Sony Channel

Fox News

Sci Fi Channel

Al Jazeera News in English

NHK Japan

Sun Cinema

and Euro Sport and Euro News....

[jfchandler]

Charoen, although limited in its service area, does appear to cover the Sukhumvit corridor...

And they're showing on their web site an offer of cable-delivered internet from CAT, 599 baht per month for 4 MB and 999 baht per month for 10 MB connections.

I can't tell from looking at their web site whether a customer can subscribe to their internet only, without also taking and paying for their cable TV package... It says they have a sales office on Sukhumvit Soi 13...

Anyone have any experience with them....

Back in Los Angeles, cable tv delivered Internet tended to have much better speeds than DSL... though cable Intenet here seems to be pretty small right now.