Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Information and Services in Turkey Section => Television & Satellite in Turkey => Topic started by: pauline on April 07, 2011, 10:03:37 AM
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Hi All,
I understand these are available at a one-off cost. Does anyone have any experience of these, do they have any english channels and if so what are they like? Currently have Digiturk but (apart from them keep reducing the available channels)its a bit expensive for the 10/15 weeks a year we are currently there.
Any information would be much apprecated.
Thanks
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From what I know, Freeview boxes will not work in Turkey
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A FreeSat box might work if you have a large enough dish.
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I think the question is about a free to view box rather than Freeview as we know it in the UK. There is a topic about this here: {A Link to an old CBF topic was here - no longer available}39605
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Hi Pauline, are you looking for channels which broadcast in English or for specifically English programs?
We have a system called NILESAT, which gives us hundreds of channels about 15 to 20 of which are in English most of the time, i.e. BBC World, CNN, Aljazeera, Press TV, MBC 2 & 4, MBC Action, Fox Movies, Fox Series, Dubai 1, Infinity, Panorama Action, and more. Adds up to about 4 news channels and the others are mainly films. Not all the film ones are English ALL the time but it gives you a pretty fair choice.
We DON'T get Corrie or Eastenders or anything like that, but you buy the sat dish and box for a one off payment and that's it. We've had ours for over 3 years and are quite happy with it. No idea how much it would be now, I think it was about 450TL when we had ours.
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Hi Pauline I have the same system as above and i too am very happy with it. :)
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For Nilesat free to air channels you only need a standard decoder and standard dish this would get the channels above if you wanted Showtime TV also broadcast through Nilesat you would need a subscription.
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Originally posted by LeeGlo
We DON'T get Corrie or Eastenders or anything like that.
www.calis-beach.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=40487
Take a look at the link above....currently BBC1, ITV & CH4 all available for free via your laptop...if you miss the soaps :)
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Originally posted by posleeds
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Originally posted by LeeGlo
We DON'T get Corrie or Eastenders or anything like that.
www.calis-beach.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=40487
Take a look at the link above....currently BBC1, ITV & CH4 all available for free via your laptop...if you miss the soaps :)
Thanks Posleeds, but to be honest we haven't missed them in 3 years and probably wouldn't recognise any of the characters now.
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Thanks Posleeds, but to be honest we haven't missed them in 3 years and probably wouldn't recognise any of the characters now.
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No, me neither but never really was a soap buff!
Some other interesting programmes on though....if you like Jeremy Kyle ;)[xx(]
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My neighbours recently bought a free to view box from Kipa & called Ufuk to install the dish, around 400tl in total. They have a good number of English language channels & no monthly subsciption.
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we had nilesat installed last week in Ovacik from the place next to 4 Seasons. 230TL for dish, box and installation.
Here are the main channels (plus a few hundred others), all free:
BBC World News Channel English
CNN News Channel English
Bloomberg Business News English
Euronews News Channel English
Al Jazeera News Channel English
MTV Music Channel English
Fox Movies Movie Channel English
Time Movies Movie Channel English
Top Movies Movie Channel English
MBC Max Movies / General Entertainment English
MBC Persia Movies / General Entertainment English
MBC Action Movies / General Entertainment English
MBC 2 Movies / General Entertainment English
MBC 4 Movies / General Entertainment English
Kanal 4 Movies / General Entertainment English
Panorama Action Movies / General Entertainment English
Fox General Entertainment English
Dubai One General Entertainment English
Kuwait 2 General Entertainment English
City 7 General Entertainment English
Nile TV News Channel English
Press TV News Channel English
CCTV News Channel English
Asia Business Business News English
JSC Sports 1 Sports Channel Arabic / English
JSC Sports 2 Sports Channel Arabic / English
JSC Global Sports Channel Arabic
Dubai Sports 1 Sports Channel Arabic
Dubai Sports 2 Sports Channel Arabic / English
AD Sports 1 Sports Channel Arabic
AD Sports 2 Sports Channel Arabic
Gear One Motor Sports Arabic / English
Dubai Racing Horse Racing English
Modern Sport Sports Channel Arabic
Saudi Sport 1 Sports Channel Arabic
Nile Sport Sports Channel Arabic
Arriadia Sports Channel Arabic
Auto One Motor Sports Arabic / English
DW TV News Channel German / English
TV5 General Entertainment French
TRT 6 General Entertainment Turkish
Nickleodeon Kids Arabic / English
Cartoon Network Kids Arabic
Spacetoon Kids Arabic
Al Jazeera Kids Kids Arabic
Sat 7 Kids Kids Arabic
Baraem Kids Arabic
NDTV Imagine General Entertainment Indian
Zee Aflam Movie Channel Indian
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Thank you all for your comments and information. Nilesat is looking quite interesting.
Very helpful. :)
Pauline
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Hi again,
Can you give me a bit more info on Nilesat location. Are they actually in Ovacik? Where abouts please. Thanks very much
Pauline
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Nilesat is the satellite you point the dish at there are lots of installers in fethiye someone will tell you the best one i am sure.
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Originally posted by pauline
Hi again,
Can you give me a bit more info on Nilesat location. Are they actually in Ovacik? Where abouts please. Thanks very much
Pauline
In April 2009 the satellite has been repositioned to 16° East as Eurobird 16. Orbital slot at 7° West has been replaced with the new Hot Bird 10, known as Atlantic Bird 4A:D:D:D: :) ;)
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Nilesat is the name of the satellite package (basically it is the middle east version of SKY).
We got our system from the satellite shop next to the 4 Seasons in Ovacik. He came and fitted it straight away.
If you're not in Ovacik any satellite shop will be able to sort you out, the whole package cost 230TL (so you know if you're being ripped off)
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Thanks again for all your help. Now have Nilesat fitted - looking good!! Now all I need is programme guide and we would be cooking, do they have such things here??? Meanwhile its random selection and hope for the best. Still good though.
Pauline
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Originally posted by pauline
Thanks again for all your help. Now have Nilesat fitted - looking good!! Now all I need is programme guide and we would be cooking, do they have such things here??? Meanwhile its random selection and hope for the best. Still good though.
Pauline
Be popping eound later for the low down ;)
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No probs Liz, pop in whenever you like.
:)
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don't think there is a program guide (possibly online?).
my installer moved most english popular channels to the front of the list, then I slowly went through what was available and moved the rest as I wanted from channel 246 to 28 for example.
work out how to move channels and arrange as per my list in a previous post is a good start.
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thanks superpp, yes they did move them for us which I thought was very helpful. They were brilliant and very prompt. Haven't worked out how to get programme guide up yet but will persevere, we are currently just scrolling though with up arrows!! Dont wont to mess the settings up.
Very pleased with the whole set up though so thanks to everyone for their assistance.
Digiturk also took cancellation very well (I was surprised!!). :)
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Originally posted by pauline
Digiturk also took cancellation very well (I was surprised!!). :)
Be careful Pauline...solicitors (on behalf of Digiturk) often come calling for money months/years after you have cancelled the contract with them!!Oh and you have to pay the solicitors fees too!! Commonly known as 'the Dodgeyturk scam'.
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Thanks for the warning, good to know these things. Once again the Forum is a font of all knowledge, would be lost without it.
Thanks a lot.