Cheap TV service

[Negita43]

I need to have a basic (probably Thai only) TV reception. The house is located near Nakhon Ratchasima and it does not have (and I do not want) an internet connection.

I guess that I need to get the free to air service but I am not sure what the best set up would be.

Advice greatfully received.

Thanks

[MJCM]

Get a Sat Dish

PSI is the one to talk to all the Thai Channels you desire

http://www.psi.co.th/

[stoneyboy]

Buy an ariel if you really want to be cheap.

[lopburi3]

Basic Sat antenna and tuner should cost less than 4,000 baht installed. Go for the larger C-band antenna as you will get a lot more stations and much less issues with rain fade. PSI is likely the best system to use and well known everywhere. This will provide all the normal stations within the 200 or so available and new tuners provide HD capability (just be sure tuner is marked as HD).

[Negita43]

Hi Lopburi3

Thanks

An atenna and not a dish?

Also I can see many set top boxes between 650 and 1200 baht and dishes for around 500 in Amorn - are these any good?

I reckon I can install myself the only problem will be direction of signal but looking at other peoples usually gives a good idea of where to point.

[Crossy]

If you go here http://dtvservicearea.nbtc.go.th/webpeople/ you can see the location of all the DTV transmitters, if you're fairly close to one (60km or so) one of the 700 Baht set-top boxes and a simple yagi antenna will get you 30 odd channels, some in HD.

Click the blue pointy thing on your location and it will distance and direction to your nearest / best transmitter.

Some programming is dual language so you can get stuff in English.

[lopburi3]

Yes box should be fine in that price range but also need LNA to go with the dish. Highly advise having crew install - very cheap as package and they have portable tuner. Dish must be exact.

[MJCM]

Yes box should be fine in that price range but also need LNA to go with the dish. Highly advise having crew install - very cheap as package and they have portable tuner. Dish must be exact.

LNA ? Not LNB ?

+1 on the crew install.

Edited May 19, 2016 by MJCM

[lopburi3]

Oops age defect showing. Was thinking of the hours spent aligning dish 40 years ago when posting. Indeed he wants what is called LNB for these high power broadcast satellites of today.

[Negita43]

Thanks everybody,

I have installed dishes before in Spain there I had a signal gismo but I can't find it, anyway I guess it's out of date now.

I went to the url given in post but everything is in Thai. Can any one tell me what the attachment means

Thanks