Satelite dish

[Marcel1]

So many people have them, big fancy houses or self build shacks, doesn't matter. I assume most of them are for tv but, how does it work?

I pass by a local shop who sells used ones, can you just buy them and hang the. up to enjoy wordwide channels or you have to subscribe somewhere?

anyone who knows more about these things?

thanks

[RichCor]

There are already hundreds of threads on ThaiVisa discussing the Satellite TV options in Thailand. You might want to look those over first, then come back and ask a more specific question. PCI, CTH, GMMZ, TRUE Vision // Free-to-Air and Subscription Service // C-Band (Big Dish) or Ku-Band (Small Dish) // Thai Soaps or Football/Sports

[Lite Beer]

Most Thais will buy a fixed dish system that has around 300 Thai channels.

A one off price of a few thousand Baht and free from there on.

For a price of around 1,000 Baht a month you can get CTH or GMMZ that has all the English Premier league football, English Championship football. Plus other sports channels that have German,Dutch etc. football.

Plus F1, Golf, Tennis etc.

Sky News, Fox News, Nat Geo, etc.

PSI also has the Premier League plus Spanish league.

True Visions has the usual collection of Movie channels plus Nat Geo, History etc. for 1,500 or 2,000 Baht a month.

It all depends on what you want.

[Marcel1]

There are already hundreds of threads on ThaiVisa discussing the Satellite TV options in Thailand. You might want to look those over first, then come back and ask a more specific question. PCI, CTH, GMMZ, TRUE Vision // Free-to-Air and Subscription Service // C-Band (Big Dish) or Ku-Band (Small Dish) // Thai Soaps or Football/Sports

didnt mean to make you angry, I typed satelite dish in the search field and found only 3 old not specific topics. but Ill search further

[lopburi3]

For free content you want to check Thaicom 5 (being phased out by replacement but still active and at same location). So yes most people pay the 3-4,000 baht required for an antenna/receiver to obtain good TV viewing - for those willing to pay more additional channels/options are available but most involved having a dish of some type.

[worgeordie]

Check out ilikehd its IPTV meaning you dont need a dish,i have

several dishes and boxes,and there is nothing worth watching on

them now.

For 200bht pm, get ilikehd (google it) stream lots HD channels

from your pc to your tv,you dont have the expense of buying dish

or box.

regards worgeordie

[astral]

I search with Satellite TV produces 16 pages of entries

[RichCor]

Your initial post was so broadly worded I could not infer your current level of knowledge, or even what you're actually interested in. This level of question is best handled in person, as a quick question/answer session could bring you up to speed in minutes. Otherwise I/we are just guessing at what you're asking (how it works, technical vs practical, initial costs, what channels, Thai/English/Other languages, politics, black market, the competitors and their subscription packages... etc, etc)

See this 2012 ThaiVisa thread for a great but short discussion on satellite TV in Thailand

Direct Broadcast Satellite

Once a satellite is launched and parked in high orbit, a group of television and radio channels can be digitized and "uplinked" to a satellite and rebroadcast over a broad area (known as a footprint). The capacity of the satellite to carry multiple, even encrypted/scrambled channels is pretty large and allows government sanctioned and even competing commercial companies to have their signals carried and rebroadcast.

People in Thailand can purchase a hardware package (consisting of a medium or small size reflector dish, microwave frequency Low-Noise-Block downconverter, a short run of coax cable, a converter-box and a Audio/Video cable to connect to a TV or amplified speaker system. If they want to receive certain 'Pay' programming (PSI, CTH, GMMz, TRUE Vision) they need to buy a special converter-box tied to the subscription company to decode encrypted 'pay' programming.

Installation of the hardware is relatively easy, with the most difficult part mounting and pointing your elliptical parabolic satellite dish antenna to the correct spot in the sky to receive the desired group of satellite signals.

Also, if you read the 2012 link I posted here you'll also see that there are other satellites available for additional programming choices.

[Marcel1]

Ok thnx for the replies so far guys, ill continue my search from the information you posted

[patongphil]

Little bit off topic but if I purchase a CTH satellite dish and box in Phuket but then go to Isaan for a few months can I take the box with me and then connect it to another satellite dish there and receive the full CTH package as I do in Phuket?

[wayned]

The box doesn't care where you are as long as you pay the bill but you have to take the box.

Until True upgraded to HD their smart cards were not tied to the box so when i went to my place in Bangkok that i only paid for the "knowledge" package i took the smart card that was premium. Can't do that anymore as the card is now tied to the box.