Where can I find a company that offers Satellite TV?
Does anyone know if it offers the UPN network, cause we want to watch the new show,“Enterprise” (Star Trek).
Please email me if anyone knows of a good company.
We are located in Hsin-tien.
Satellite TV in Taiwan is little different to the regular cable offered here – in Hsin Tien on satellite, you’ll probably get CNN, HBO, maybe Cinemax, and a bunch of local channels. If you’re very lucky (?) you’ll get Star World or something like that. You don’t even get Discovery or National Geographic.
My friend sprang for satellite TV a couple of years ago and it was OK (but still nothing special).
However, the marketing was crap or non-existent, hardly anyone signed up, they lost money and guess what? All the decent stuff was cut.
Don’t forget, the satellite system doesn’t mean you can pick and choose your preferred channels. Just as with local cable, the provider company gets “packages” of channels that are typically one movie channel, a few local soap channels and a whole lot of home shopping. The better channels, of course, cost the provider more, so you won’t be seeing them on your screen.
I would suggest that you save your money.
I went to a local shop the other day and found out they have a TV showing Indonesian local channel.
I hate TV shows in Taipei. I miss the wide range of channels like it was back in Jakarta. I get to watch MTV India and Cool ka lang at GMA, or English subtitled French movie at CFI.
Does anyone know where to get a Satellite dish (first or second hand) at a decent price that enable me to channel surf the multilingual world?
regards,
ax
I have had satellite TV for the past few months now. I got it for the news channels mostly and Star World. Many of you get all of these channels already, but in the suburb I live in, I do not get much in English besides movies channels, CNN and Discovery and National Geographic.
Here is the company I go with http://www.satgo.com.tw
I choose the following plan: http://www.satgo.com.tw/dbs/146Dream.htm
You have to get new cards each year. If possible buy it in the Philippines and bring it back. Buy the dish here in Taiwan and just bring home the receiver. Not sure if this is easy to setup. I recently moved and I am trying to reinstall the thing in my new place without calling them over.
I would think most people do not need this, but if you do and you have more questions, post 'em here and I will try to help.
What is this “card” that I need to get every year and how do you get it. Can I buy this card anywhere else? Like perhaps ask my bro to send it from Indonesia and use it here? Can I also buy cheaper and smaller dish from China and install it here?
I heard there is an indoor satellite dish available. Will that work for me if I want world channels?
regards
ax
The card is one year subscription. Costs about NT$11,000 I think, but in the Philippines it is about 8,000 Peso. Much much cheaper. The whole package is cheaper in the Philippines.
The dish is already pretty small and easy to install. Why get it from China? China doesn’t have any good satellite services? Do you mean getting a cheap dish or the service? Cheap dishes can be found in Taiwan. About US$100 or cheaper I think. You need a lot more though and the URLs I gave you a whole package deal with installation.
Indoor dish? Never heard of that? What world channels do you want exactly? There are many different packages from Satgo.com.tw but you have to be able to read some Chinese to figure it all out.
Does anyone know if the satellite (or cable) operators in Taiwan offer any of the networks that are readily available in Hong Kong? Such as: BBC World, CNBC, TCM, Pearl TV, and Star World. Thanks!
Yes, I have BBC World, CNBC and Star World, but no Pearl TV. If TCM is Turner Classic Movies, then I have that one and several more. A lot of cable operators have these too so you don’t need to pay extra to get hook up with a satellite dish and receiver.
It’s odd, but I found the cable operators in north Taipei and Tamsui tend to offer the worst cable I have seen, mostly just talking heads channels.
I think I need real TV, so I’m going to look at the dream package…
Thanks for the recommendation.
Kenneth
All I want are channels like MTV India and Indian soap opera channels, GMA Philllipines, all Indonesian channels, Canal France International, CNBC Asia, and other local channels, I don’t know if I can get singapore local channel:) that will lovely. We don’t live in a perfect world:)
regards,
ax
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It’s odd, but I found the cable operators in north Taipei and Tamsui (Danshui) tend to offer the worst cable I have seen, mostly just talking heads channels.
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You have to think of it from the cable operators point of view. Why allow those channels to take up bandwidth when only a few people will appreciate them. A channel like Star World has no Chinese subtitles.
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You might get something like MTV India and India soaps with the UBC package from Thailand. When I use to live in Thailand the MTV feed I received was from India and I assume there were a lot of people from India because I had other channels from India as well as channels with Indonesian subtitles. I doubt that you can get everything you want from one package. I think you will need to either pay a lot to set something up like this privately or learn some basic satellite technology to be able to set this up yourself.
By the way, here is the link to the UBC setup http://www.satgo.com.tw/dbs/785ubc.htm
This is the same setup that the Tavern has, so if you wanted to open your own Sports bar or you were pissed off by the attitude of the Tavern’s owner, or upset he won’t open in the moring to see the sports you want to see, here you go. You can set this up yourself and watch at home or set up a place across the street from the Tavern. I think he choose this package because it has more sports channels, although the Dream package is already pretty good with its English ESPN among others.
I’m still considering purchasing it, but I need to confirm line of site, I think.
Can you tell me if Dream has all these channels!
TECH-TV
BBC World
CNBC Asia
Bloomberg
Star World
CNN Financial Network
Fox News Channel
I am so used to the chopping and changing of cable operators that I don’t want to fork out 37500 for it to find out there’s only one channel worth watching!
Thanks, Hobart!
Kenneth
TECH-TV : YES
BBC World : YES
CNBC Asia : YES
Bloomberg : YES
Star World : YES
CNN Financial Network : YES
Fox News Channel :YES
Your small dish must have line of sight between 10:30-11:00AM.
Thanks, then it looks like I’m in it for it, but probably after chinese new year…
I gave lots of Karma!
Kenneth
Sorry, I forgot to include that the line of sight for the small dish is meant to be a line of sight to the sun. Where the dish will be located it must be get direct sun between 10:30-11:00AM.
Thank-you for the Karma points Ken!
CNS and EMC are two providers that are promoting digital TV at the moment. This has more to do with the transition to digital as against offering a better bouquet of channels.
They have loads of these English-speaking learning channels, but beyond this and the porn channel there is no great selection. I guess they just can
I saw BS HI demo in Taipei the other day. It is Japanese HDTV digital TV provider service that can be picked up in Taiwan. The picture was amazing. Better than DVD, however, there were only Japanese language channels.
Can you give me the URL of the website for these other digital TV providers as I want to see their channel listings? Is this the same thing as HDTV?
There are tonnes of websites out there that discuss both Digital TV and HDTV… here is one… just do a search in google
CNS
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