Basic Free Channels

[ubonrthai]

What is the best way to get the free channels (3,5,7,ThaiPBS) clearer? I have some "rabbit ears" next to the TV but they don't work very good nor look very good. Most of what we watch is online and we just hook our laptop up to the TV. I just ended my True service because we hardly used it and they left the dish and line into the house. I guess they don't want it back. Is there a way to use that? I plugged straight into my TV but its still not clear. Is there a cheap satellite or something we could buy?

[Lite Beer]

You can get a satellite system for around 3,000 Baht that will get around 250 channels. Mostly Thai.

Most towns and villages have these installers now.

[ubonrthai]

I don't need 250 channels nor want another box next to TV. Just want the few basic channels. I talked to a guy who says he can do a 600b satellite for that. Just curious what others have done though.

[stoneyboy]

Modern technology hey.

[BuddhistVirus]

Since you already have the dish and cable installed, get a receiver.

RS sunbox, GMM-Z (and maybe DTV) would work on the same sat position that the true dish is aligned, provided you have not tinkered with the dish. I think the box costs around 1590. Or get a True Life box.

[jsat]

I don't need 250 channels nor want another box next to TV. Just want the few basic channels. I talked to a guy who says he can do a 600b satellite for that. Just curious what others have done though.

Yes he is right, a cheap plastic fantastic set top box will do the job. Plug it into your old ubc dish and off you go .. but get him to show you what you are getting before you buy it ..

[Pujun]

where do you live?

the problem with TV reception in Bangkok metropolitain area is due to poor transmission planning.

VHF 9 and UHF channels are transmitted from Baiyoke II tower

VHF 5 & 7 are from another location (Bangsue)

VHF 11 is from another location.

It's difficult to get perfect condition whether you use indoor or outdoor antenna.

if you are living in a house, install your own antenna.

you can try those antenna installers who have experiences in getting better signal

check yellow-pages.

[sysardman]

You can get a satellite system for around 3,000 Baht that will get around 250 channels. Mostly Thai.

Most towns and villages have these installers now.

You can buy a basic box by PSI for around 500Baht and gives you 65 free Thai channels, should work OK with your True dish and LNB. If you give us an idea where you live (is it Ubon as in your monicker?). I had the same problem with bad pictures in Chiang Mai, it turns out that the Thai system is a bit mish-mash in the fact that different channels come from different transmitters because of way stations are owned in Thailand. Therefore if you point your aerial at one transmitter then other channels go fuzzy and vice versa. I worked in the aerial business and the only way out of that is multi aerials and a signal combiner box so it was just as cheap to buy the PSI system (box, dish, cable etc self installed for just over 1000 Baht and a very happy wife with all those channels of rubbish to watch)).

[Rome]

I think even True nowadays has a dish which costs around 2-3,000 baht as a one time payment so no monthly fee. You can purchase this dish and ask them to remove the old one. Or else, you may consider to have a local cable called Happy Home TV which has no box and it charges just 100++ baht per month.

[elwood]

Modern technology hey.

Worked well for me when we lived in a village; two small aerials needed to pick up all the free land channels available at that time.

And our next-door neighbour here in Ubon used the same method before buying a Psi dish.

[sysardman]

I think even True nowadays has a dish which costs around 2-3,000 baht as a one time payment so no monthly fee. You can purchase this dish and ask them to remove the old one. Or else, you may consider to have a local cable called Happy Home TV which has no box and it charges just 100++ baht per month.

Don't know if you're still following this but I'm having a problem understanding how a cable TV setup can work without a box?? In my experience there has to be some kind of box to decode the incoming signal.

[petedk]

I think even True nowadays has a dish which costs around 2-3,000 baht as a one time payment so no monthly fee. You can purchase this dish and ask them to remove the old one. Or else, you may consider to have a local cable called Happy Home TV which has no box and it charges just 100++ baht per month.

Don't know if you're still following this but I'm having a problem understanding how a cable TV setup can work without a box?? In my experience there has to be some kind of box to decode the incoming signal.

I think even True nowadays has a dish which costs around 2-3,000 baht as a one time payment so no monthly fee. You can purchase this dish and ask them to remove the old one. Or else, you may consider to have a local cable called Happy Home TV which has no box and it charges just 100++ baht per month.

Don't know if you're still following this but I'm having a problem understanding how a cable TV setup can work without a box?? In my experience there has to be some kind of box to decode the incoming signal.

I'm not sure how this works either.

I have a friend who uses Happy Home and is very pleased with it. Seems there is no box just a cable.

[petedk]

You will need a decoder to use the sateliite signals.

I saw that GMM Grammy have put their price down to 999 Baht today. I haven't a clue how their programs are but I am considering buying one and setting up in the spare room so that when friends from Europe come and stay they will have something to see.

[JamieP]

Don't know if you're still following this but I'm having a problem understanding how a cable TV setup can work without a box?? In my experience there has to be some kind of box to decode the incoming signal.

If it's a similar setup to the cable I've got in Khon Kaen, the signals are standard UHF / VHF Tv signals through a co-ax cable. So you just plug straight into the TV.

[sysardman]

Don't know if you're still following this but I'm having a problem understanding how a cable TV setup can work without a box?? In my experience there has to be some kind of box to decode the incoming signal.

If it's a similar setup to the cable I've got in Khon Kaen, the signals are standard UHF / VHF Tv signals through a co-ax cable. So you just plug straight into the TV.

It's a bugger then if you have a manual tuning TV cos I understand there's 80 channels