Satellite TV as an option to TMN or BTV on Darkside

[ROBINPATTAYA]

Hi all,

I have TMN & have had BTV television previously.

I am getting sick of the crap they are now showing, 92 channels & about 6 worth watching.

I know the companies have a set top box for about 6,000 baht that gives more channels, does anyone have this installed.

Is there a satellite option to the normal TV companies & what costs are involved.

I am not a techno genius so keep it simple. an installation or plug in & go would be the best option.

I have done a search but didn't find any real answers, I am sure there are many unhappy customers out there.

Cheers

[juliusk]

I have TMN and the normal package sucks indeed, just 6 or 7 channels watchable. They just changed a English movie channel to a Thai one as well.

3 months ago i purchased the set-up box from TMN for 5.5k i believe, it have 14 channels with the Swedish,Golfchannel,Korean TV which are already on the normal 92 channels. I do like the Astro sport channels so i can check out the PML and Spanish football games. It also have AXN,Fox Movies Premium and my favorites National Geographic and History Channel. Its only a purchase of 5.5k and no monthly costs, just the 300 baht per month for TMN. I also moved to a different area of Pattaya in these 3 months and they moved it for free as well.

I cant speak about the satellite as this works out for quite well. Have to say, when i will purchase a different TV i will get a SMART LED TV which enables me that i can stream my online TV even better so imo its better to focus on streaming TV then buying a satellite tv set-up.

[pattayadingo]

I currently use GMMZ box on a true satellite dish. You will find very little of interest on there either. Pay 1000 Baht for the box and the rest is free to air.

The GMMZ box is mainly for the g/f who watches Thai soaps, National Geographic and music channels.

GMM Sport does not have a lot to crow about either - maybe the U21 football.

I did subscribe to the movie channel at 200 Baht a month but find that is not much better.

Seems to me little point in subscribing to the extra sports, for me at least at extra cost.

Maybe CTH is worth waiting for?

http://www.cth.co.th/package-599/

^^^ Has a list of CTH channels incl 6 HD Premier League channels (currently cable) but with their satellite boxes (1800 Baht) available sometime in July according to my favourite satellite shop on Sukhumvit road.

The lack of decent television is why so many of us use torrents. Watch what you want, when you want. I transfer my television to a USB stick and watch them on my 600 Baht dvd player.

edit.... fat fingers & small keys = typos

[Barack]

Do you have a a fast Internet connection? If so, you may want to explore the TV Internet forum for more options including IPTV.

[ROBINPATTAYA]

Do you have a a fast Internet connection? If so, you may want to explore the TV Internet forum for more options including IPTV.

I had looked at IPTV but it is expensive from memory.

The CTV seems to have a lot of football that I would never watch & has no Australia Network with real football...haha.

It may be that the best short term option is the set-top box from TMN.

Thailand really needs a farang based TV network, there must be more than a million farangs that live here plus the tourists.

This is a huge singular market for some smart entrepreneur to access.

Thanks everyone for the input.

[Phil Conners]

After years of watching satellite TV from the neighboring countries I finally gave up partly due to the increasing cost of it, partly due to poor programming (relative to my taste of course) and partly due to more and more problems due to better encryption. In the end I bought a satellite kit for Mrs Conners in one of those Thai satellite shops that are on every corner, 2000 baht all incl., FTA (no subscription costs) for 70 or so Thai channels. For myself I mostly watch TV from back home now, over the Internet. The bandwidth is improving every year and these days I usually can watch streaming TV with no buffering at all. My country's TV companies all have websites where all their own programming are FTA worldwide. I have an old laptop wired up to my big screen LCD TV, controlled with something like this. No more satellite TV for me

[cooked]

well, what satellite TV can you get here?

[Gone]

I use Netfix here when there is nothing on. All you need to do is sign up, pat $7.99.00 per month and just use a VPN when you use it

[Phil Conners]

You don't even need a VPS - check out http://hola.org/

[stoli]

I could not agree more. TMN really is a system just built for hotels where you have people moving in-an-out every few days, and not spending time in their rooms. For someone that lives here, it is terrible. Now that they changed channel 36 movie channel to a Thai language channel, and channel 37, National Geographic to Thai, TMN is worthless. Probably going to force me to move when my lease is up. Have to get away from TMN.

[Gone]

You don't even need a VPS - check out http://hola.org/

Phil I mean a VPN. I think you mean hulu.org isn't it? If it is the same as I am thinking WAY to many commercials etc.

[ace]

I think he means Hola which does this:

The Hola Unblocker is a free, configurable VPN service, similar to many such services that exist on the Internet. It is useful for seeing how a web site looks like from a certain geography

To stop this:

Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only, but all BBC iPlayer Radio programmes are available to you.

[blackman]

why not True?

i know there are many dissenters of the True service but i have a x4 receiver / x4 platinum card package that costs less than 3000 a month

17 HD channels, free install, 2000 baht deposit per receiver

good customer service, very few problems

[ROBINPATTAYA]

why not True?

i know there are many dissenters of the True service but i have a x4 receiver / x4 platinum card package that costs less than 3000 a month

17 HD channels, free install, 2000 baht deposit per receiver

good customer service, very few problems

Thanks but a bit exxy for me just to watch TV. I am away a far bit so I wouldn't get the full value from it.

[johng]

Are true still blurring out the " naughty " bits ?

[blackman]

Are true still blurring out the " naughty " bits ?

on some Thai programming and Thai films

some explicit bits on western films

normally they fog out drinking and smoking but beating women, gang attacks that involve groups of Thais kicking people to death , knife attacks , carving up rivals with machetes, shooting, stabbings etc

even though the programs are screened between 5-8 pm when children are watching

that's all OK

is there any wonder that Thai society is like it is ?