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Sophon Cable - When Is It Enough?


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I am aware Sophon added new channels and upgraded??? their system....For the last 10 days now quality has been from just acceptable to terrible (all day today..), but certainly much worse than before the upgrade. Calling them makes no difference, their manager actually told us today, this might be going on until the end of March!

What is the situation with reception of some other members of this forum. Friends and I live 2nd. Rd. / Soi 10 area and have all similar experience the last 10 days, evnafter frequent re-programming.

Is there still no alterantive to Sophon or UBC?

Thanks for any feedback. CL.

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i'm living in east Pattaya and have noticed a definate improvment on picture quality.. on the downside, the channels are all over the place ..... it only took me about 5 years to figure out where the channels were on the old system unsure.png

Anyway, can't see the point in changing now if they are actually attempting an upgrade mellow.png

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i'm living in east Pattaya and have noticed a definate improvment on picture quality.. on the downside, the channels are all over the place ..... it only took me about 5 years to figure out where the channels were on the old system unsure.png

Anyway, can't see the point in changing now if they are actually attempting an upgrade mellow.png

You got a point there. The manager told us the east side had been fixed, but all below Sukhumvit could take months. Great....Thanks. CL.

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If is any consolation BTV has also been very iffy of late.

Like Sophon, some channels are very clear but others - mainly the news channels I want to watch, like BBC, Al-Jazeera and Fox are bad quality and the sound and picture keeps breaking up. Sometimes you can put down to weather interference to satellite signals but this has been going too long and the weather has been fine.

As you say, its not expensive and there's not much you can do about it.

I just get more and more of my daily news and sport news from the internet (news websites and live radio) and download TV programmes and movies. HD quality and no ads and I can watch whenever I want and pause the programmes when I take a pee....

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Off topic posts and responses to those posts have been deleted. Please stick to the discussion at hand which happens to be actual picture and sound quality coming from your cable provider, thanks

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My main complaint is that // several dire non-English channels have appeared.

Isn't that called selfishness ? dry.png

Many foreigners in Thailand found that there is already way too many English channels compared to others languages. Main lack certainly is for Hispanophones.

As everybody here, I now have more channels available. My TV scan found 81. New channels for Russians, Indians, Arabes, ... About 75 channels have good quality reception. smile.png I am in South Pattaya not far from Tukcom.

My concern is about HBO whose reception is "poor" and National Geo who is very bad sad.png

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Isn't that called selfishness ?

New channels for Russians, Indians, Arabes, ...

Well, maybe the Russians, Indians and Arabs would care to pay more now that they have extra channels and I have fewer? That would perhaps make me less selfish. Or perhaps not.

My concern is about HBO whose reception is "poor" and National Geo who is very bad sad.png

What language are they in? I've never noticed them.

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This is a scan of all Sophon channels (from another Thai-Visa thread) that was done on January 3 -- Neither HBO or Nat-Geo are listed anywhere in the line-up.

1 Thai Channel

2 Sophon English Movies Channel

3 Thai Info Channel

4 Spring News Thai Channel

5 Test Channel (Just static)

6 TGN Thai Channel

7 Fashion TV

8 Russian Language Channel

9 Chonburi 1 (Thai Channel)

10 Sophon Movie Channel (Thai Voice)

11 Next Step Documentary Channel Thai

12 Pattaya People Channel

13 Next Step Music Lifestyle

14 Cartoon Club

15 MV 5 Channel (Thai)

16 Channel 3 Thai

17 Channel 5 Thai

18 Channel 7 Thai

19 Channel 9 Thai

20 NBTV Thai

21 Thai PBS

22 Sophon Info Channel & Thai Movie Channel

23 Russian Language Channel

24 Rai Italia (Italian Language Channel)

25 BBC World

26 Aljazeera

27 Channel News Asia

28 Fox News

29 English Movies

30 Bloomberg

31 Russian Language Channel

32 Russian Language Channel

33 Astro Supersport 2

34 V Channel (Music Channel)

35 Austrialia Network

36 Euro Sport

37 Golf Channel

38 Astro Supersport

39 English Movies (Thai Voice)

40 Pattaya Channel

41 Zee TV (Indian Language Channel)

42 Test Channel

43 English Movies

44 Cartoons

45 Universal Channel

46 Kids Co

47 SyFi

48 DW-TV (German Language Channel)

49 BVN (Dutch Language Channel)

50 NHK World (Japanase Language Channel)

51 Sophon Sport Redio Channel

52 Russian Language Channel

53 TCI Channel (Thai & Chinese Language Channel)

54 ASTV (Thai Info)

55 Fan TV (Thai Music)

56 Voice TV (Thai)

57 DNN Channel (Thai)

58 Asia Live (Thai)

59 Health Plus Channel (Thai)

60 Arabian Language Channel

61 CCTV 4 (Chinese Language Channel)

62 Russian Language Channel

63 TV 5 Monde (French Language Channel)

64 ACT Channel (Thai)

65 Pattaya City Radio Channel

66 Money Channel (Thai)

67 Euro Sport (Most of the time not Working)

68 Grand Prix Channel (Thai)

69 ASN Sports

70 Test Channel

71 Loekteung Channel (Thai Music)

72 DMC Channel (Religious Channel)

73 Live Dude TV (Thai)

74 Live Miti 4 (Thai)

75 Live Pop Culture (Thai & Asian Music)

76 Live Thai Chai Yoo (Thai Music)

77 Zaa Network (Thai)

78 Miracle Channel (Thai)

79 TV Pool Channel

80 Channel ! (Thai)

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"Bloomberg channel seems to be gone"

Bloomberg is channel 30 on the list above, but appears on channel 29 on my Sophon feed on one TV -- the video quality is good. On another TV, Bloomberg appears on channel 44.

In what numerical position the various channels appear seems to vary with the TV being used. You will probably need to do an auto re-scan of all the channels so that your TV can find the channels that have recently been re-shuffled, one of which is Bloomberg.

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I'm in Jomtien and I can't find the Universal channel at all. Anyone else find that? Also, the SyFy channel seems to have turned into the Ghost Whisperer channel. Is that the only show they have?

All in all a lamentable lack of channels in the only widely spoken international language. I have customers from countries like Norway, Germany, France and the Czech Republic. Channels in Arabic, Italian or Taiwanese aren't much use to them, are they?

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"can't find the Universal channel at all. ... Also, the SyFy channel"

In a scan that was done on January 3, those channels showed up as number 45 and 47 -- If your TV isn't receiving them, you should do an auto-scan of all channels -- after that they should be available.

Here's the list from January 3:

1 Thai Channel

2 Sophon English Movies Channel

3 Thai Info Channel

4 Spring News Thai Channel

5 Test Channel (Just static)

6 TGN Thai Channel

7 Fashion TV

8 Russian Language Channel

9 Chonburi 1 (Thai Channel)

10 Sophon Movie Channel (Thai Voice)

11 Next Step Documentary Channel Thai

12 Pattaya People Channel

13 Next Step Music Lifestyle

14 Cartoon Club

15 MV 5 Channel (Thai)

16 Channel 3 Thai

17 Channel 5 Thai

18 Channel 7 Thai

19 Channel 9 Thai

20 NBTV Thai

21 Thai PBS

22 Sophon Info Channel & Thai Movie Channel

23 Russian Language Channel

24 Rai Italia (Italian Language Channel)

25 BBC World

26 Aljazeera

27 Channel News Asia

28 Fox News

29 English Movies

30 Bloomberg

31 Russian Language Channel

32 Russian Language Channel

33 Astro Supersport 2

34 V Channel (Music Channel)

35 Austrialia Network

36 Euro Sport

37 Golf Channel

38 Astro Supersport

39 English Movies (Thai Voice)

40 Pattaya Channel

41 Zee TV (Indian Language Channel)

42 Test Channel

43 English Movies

44 Cartoons

45 Universal Channel

46 Kids Co

47 SyFi

48 DW-TV (German Language Channel)

49 BVN (Dutch Language Channel)

50 NHK World (Japanase Language Channel)

51 Sophon Sport Redio Channel

52 Russian Language Channel

53 TCI Channel (Thai & Chinese Language Channel)

54 ASTV (Thai Info)

55 Fan TV (Thai Music)

56 Voice TV (Thai)

57 DNN Channel (Thai)

58 Asia Live (Thai)

59 Health Plus Channel (Thai)

60 Arabian Language Channel

61 CCTV 4 (Chinese Language Channel)

62 Russian Language Channel

63 TV 5 Monde (French Language Channel)

64 ACT Channel (Thai)

65 Pattaya City Radio Channel

66 Money Channel (Thai)

67 Euro Sport (Most of the time not Working)

68 Grand Prix Channel (Thai)

69 ASN Sports

70 Test Channel

71 Loekteung Channel (Thai Music)

72 DMC Channel (Religious Channel)

73 Live Dude TV (Thai)

74 Live Miti 4 (Thai)

75 Live Pop Culture (Thai & Asian Music)

76 Live Thai Chai Yoo (Thai Music)

77 Zaa Network (Thai)

78 Miracle Channel (Thai)

79 TV Pool Channel

80 Channel ! (Thai)

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I've got SyFy on 46 but no Universal anywhere. 44 and 45 are cartoons. 43, is movies but i've seen all of Sophon's DVD collection by now.

I think it's kinda quaint when the movie stops half way through and the screen says "Insert Disc 2'. It's like early cinema when someone had to change the reel on the projector. On rare occasions, late at night, the DVD guy seems to fall asleep because a movie will come to an end and then start over again.

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"I've got SyFy on 46 but no Universal anywhere. 44 and 45 are cartoons."

The actual numbers assigned to each channel can vary slightly from one TV to another -- If you do a complete re-scan of ALL channels, you should be able to receive Universal -- on my TV, Universal is channel 43 and the video and audio are both good.

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  • 2 weeks later...

There are at least three russian channels now. Aparently Sophon wants to attracts the russians here more than the other nationalities, because it is getting not better. I live in Thepprasit, have already reprogrammed but on many channels, like the m0vie channels quality is worser than before. A friend of mine lives in south Jomtien and he gets National Gegraphic, but here on Thepprasit NO way!!

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