Cable TV Programmes for 2005

[quote=“Satellite TV”]

The feeds for each cable TV provider are different, depending on what they pay for. Most county areas have less English programming than city areas.

In Taichung (Taizhong) you don’t get the ABC from OZ, BBC World, Fox News, DW, TV, CNBC, or Bloomberg AFAIK. Programming in each country is different. ESPN India has 300 days a year of cricket. ESPN Taiwan gets 300 days a year of pool, or so it seems lol.

The main point of satellite TV is to get all your programming in English, without the crap commercial ads.[/quote]

well since content is paid at per view and these local companies probably don’t declare half the number of subs they have… I thought it would never be too expensive for them… unless of course the government is cracking down on this :noway:

What satellite feed can you offer? Do you have South Africa’s DSTV with SuperSport? [/quote]

Of course I have it, otherwise how would I watch the Aussies kick Pakistan in the cricket. I have 8 satellites up & running at home. How many do you want?

Drop me an email with your phone numbers and I’ll get back to you.

DSTV, UBC, Telkom, Sky Perfect Japan, are pay packages and Dream TV you can have without card fees. Other free to air programming available as well.

I miss the old days of cable TV in Taiwan like some 10-15 years ago
when all the cable companies were illegal but you always had 3 different
companies for each area trying to get your business with different channel lineups and they all had free hardcore porn on tv everynight after 11PM. It was always easy to split the lines on the buildings rooftops to access cable for free

Up in Danshui (Taipei County), CNN also completely disappeared.

It used to be at 97, and it should’ve been on channel 5 after the reshuffle, but it has completely disappeared. Channel 5 now has NHK, and CNN is nowhere on the list between 1 and 105-something.

The area is a monopoly for Hong Shulin Cable, which I believe is owned by the ETTV group.

I just paid my monthly NT$550 cable bill (for Xi Jr) and had one of my colleagues ask about the missing CNN channel. Word is that it should be back by the end of February. In fact the very last day of February.

When I cared about cable TV, it did sometimes take a few days longer for some channels to come back. Maybe the agreements took a little longer to sort out. But I gave up caring ages ago, never watch TV now. Same feeling as ICRT I guess.

We found CNN on channel 5 (very bad quality though), but are still hoping for Hallmark to re-appear, mostly for the Sesame Street in English! Anybody discovered it? We’re in the Tianmu area, no idea what the provider is called.

In past years there usually was a similar re-shuffle on Jan. 1st, but then much of it got re-re-shuffled again a few days later, let’s keep our fingers crossed … !

Satellite TV, could you post a typical set up with costs that would grant access to all “standard” English Info, Movie, Nature & Kids channels? Thanks!

dream.com.ph/main.asp?p=programming

This package is NT$26,000 installed ( 1.8m dish ) with no further fees. Please check the channel guides carefully as there are many English programs throughout the whole package.

With the receiver you also get an electronic programe guide which means you can just use the remote to get schedule info for the next several days with details of what each program is. There are othe pay packages available but most want the cheapest and this is it.

Multichoice South Africa DSTV, UBC Thailand, Telkom Indonesia, Sky Perfect Japan are also available. Other free to air programming can be had for those who have languages apart from English.

With so many people not paying for their cable TV is it any wonder the providers cannot afford to pay for the foreign programming you all want to have.

Cable copmanies need to have several large 5 metre satellite dishes to get all the channels that you watch. They per per channel in thousands of US$ per month, which they then have to recover from their subscriber base. The programming doesn’t come free. Then you complain when channels get cut lol

With so many people not paying for their cable TV is it any wonder the providers cannot afford to pay for the foreign programming you all want to have.

Cable copmanies need to have several large 5 metre satellite dishes to get all the channels that you watch. They per per channel in thousands of US$ per month, which they then have to recover from their subscriber base. The programming doesn’t come free. Then you complain when channels get cut lol[/quote]

Listen up! I pay for my cable now so I have the right to complain when
programming gets cut. I was talking about 12 years ago when the companies were illegal gangster outfits and the police would cut the lines now and then and it didnt matter if you were a paying customer. Sometimes the companies disappeared altogether. I had no problem stealing cable back then from illegal outfits who also put xxx american porn on the airwaves illegally also. Actually I didnt really steal the cable. Most places I moved into had a cable in the room and when I connected it to the TV, it worked. :slight_smile:

Anyway, talking about paying subscriber fees, How can Dream TV pay for their programming if some of the viewers in Taiwan use software decoders to view the programming without paying them the subscription fees???LOL!!!

They got millions of customers subsidizing us from the Philipinnes… :unamused:

The signals in the air are free to pickup :laughing:

And as I write the software I gotta get paid lol :smiley:

A few days ago all the programs changed channels. Now I can’t find the Hallmark channel? Which channels is it on? I think it used to be on 94.

It makes me feel happier and happier that I got Satellite TV (since I shouldn’t say his name and got warned last time) to do all the work on the three satellites for me … thanks again!! By the way, Satellite TV, what is the current cost of the Multichoice card for my receiver in the upstairs bedroom? Is it still 30 000 NT or thereabouts? I’m thinking, once ur cable expires in February, to start watching that receiver full-time.

I’m going to make the poor schmucks at the cable tv office sorry they were ever born, starting tomorrow at 9:00 and every day for the rest of their God-forsaken lives unless they get CNN back on the air pronto. :fume: :bluemad: :taz: :grrr:[/quote]
I have been terrorizing my cable company, trying to get a straight answer, and have finally found out the bitter truth - we won’t get CNN until the beginning of February sometime. They like to wait for their contracts to expire before they begin negotiating the new one. When I pointed out that the only people who suffer are consumers, they shrugged. “But you’ve taken my money! How can you in good conscience take away the very service that I paid for?”
Them: Meiyou! Ni wu hui le (No such thing - you’re mistaken.

Me: Freaking out at them for 20 minutes on the phone and saying terrible terrible things… :fume:

Yeah I got warned not to mention my own name as well, funny about that. You can call me Jim now though lol.

I’ll call ya about the card. The US$ has been not friendly by taking a dive in the fourth round.

once your cable expires in February

Actually I don’t have cable so it must be yours about to expire

As it turns out in most areas in Taipei, you can now rent a digital decoder box from your cable supplier for 140NT per month or purchase it for 3,000nt. The decoder provides you with a standard package of extra news channels such as BBC, ABC, and a host of others. Also some channnels such as Hallmark and the porno channels have been moved into this system.

If you want to view some of the other channels not included in the standard package you have to pay per channel and it’s not cheap at 200nt per channel. I can see that is one of those mental Taiwan marketing schemes that will soon fall in a hole. But for most foreigners it is a good thing. The loss leader channels are generally the ones we want to watch and the charge for channels are things like English teaching channels.

Yeah I got warned not to mention my own name as well, funny about that.[/quote]
Who warned you? We ask people not to “out” others, but outing yourself is certainly your own prerogative. And even outing someone like you (Satellite TV) whose name appears in the signature of every post you make. probably wouldn’t raise any eyebrows…