Anyone Has Tried South African Multichoice Sat?

[xty]

Found in satthai.net, seems Multichoice has good English channels. Anyone has it already? Would it be possible to use small dish only?

[Norrad]

I have it, but then again, I am in South Africa.

You need a dish, size doesn't matter, and a decoder.

[Twin]

I'm in BKK and bought a movable satellite dish ( 7.5 feet ) from JSAT. That is the smallest dish you can buy to receive the signal from South Africa.

http://www.jsat.tv/

During installation, they will recommend a guy in Pattaya who provides the DS-TV subscription card. I paid around B32,000 for the dish, including installation in 2 points in my apartment. I paid B52,000 for the annual subscription to DS-TV, which is about a 40% premium to what you would pay if you lived in SA. Maybe Norrad can confirm this.

Since then, I have learned there is someone who may be selling the cards for B40,000, but I have not investigated this as my card is good until next April.

Here is where you can find info on all the channels available through the subscription.

http://www.dstv.com/

I bought the card mailnly for the sports.

http://www.supersport.co.za/default.asp?id=11827&des=content

As a bonus, with a movable dish, we now get the Philippine satellite channels unscrambled right now, It is basically a mirror of the UBC channel offering.

http://www.dream.com.ph/programming/progra...ed.asp?npage=12

Hope this helps.

Twin