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Offline pauline

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« on: April 07, 2011, 10:03:37 AM »
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.
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« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2011, 10:19:58 AM »
From what I know, Freeview boxes will not work in Turkey

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« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2011, 10:38:12 AM »
A FreeSat box might work if you have a large enough dish.

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« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2011, 10:57:43 AM »
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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« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2011, 13:51:15 PM »
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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« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2011, 09:28:08 AM »
Hi Pauline I have the same system as above and i too am very happy with it.  :)

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« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2011, 10:10:28 AM »
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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« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2011, 11:13:43 AM »
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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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« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2011, 11:44:07 AM »
quote:
Originally posted by posleeds

quote:
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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« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2011, 17:49:14 PM »
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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