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Offline Jacqui Harvey

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Getting some decent T.V. whilst on holiday
« on: June 18, 2012, 07:34:07 AM »
We have a dish and used to be able to watch quite a lot of T.V. from around the world and even got the Footie.  Now all we get is a couple of English speaking stations and hundreds of Arab ones.  As we only use our place for holidays (at the moment).  Is  there anything we can get to enable us to watch more T.V. stations? 
Hassan has been making more money from us that usual because DVD's are the only thing to watch.   ;)



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Re: Getting some decent T.V. whilst on holiday
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2012, 08:32:03 AM »
If you have a laptop or iPad Jacqui sign up to tv catch up
It's actually live tv as opposed to catchup
You will need a proxy or VPN to be able to watch it, like expat shield or similar

Or sign up to uk tv access, it's less than a fiver a month and you can stop start payments anytime you like, so no need to be paying for it when you're to here.

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Re: Getting some decent T.V. whilst on holiday
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2012, 10:00:44 AM »
Linda that is ok if you have wireless internet at your house, to do it using a dongle would cost a fortune, also Linda try www.filmon4.com that is very good and free
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Re: Getting some decent T.V. whilst on holiday
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2012, 11:06:01 AM »
Thanks Mark, I didn't really think that through did I !!!
Have bookmarked your link.

Whilst we're sharing links have a look at 1channel.ch for free movies online

Hope you have wireless Jacqui, otherwise we're not being very much use
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Re: Getting some decent T.V. whilst on holiday
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2012, 12:33:24 PM »
We moved recently and have Nilesat at our new place (which we had at our other place but we also had a second dish tuned into Turksat). I don't have broadband and use a dongle.

So I had a second dish fitted (cost me 75 TL) supplied and fitted and tuned into Turksat as I knew TRT (the Turkish equivalent of the BBC) had the Euro's on live every night as well as other major events like The Eurovision Song Contest (sad but fun), Tennis, Major Sporting events that Sky have not tied up etc.

Although the commentary is in Turkish they have screened every game and now they are screening 2 simultaneously on TRT1 and TRT3.

I also picked up Carling Cup games on SkyTurk in the winter so for my 75 TL I am very happy   :)   :)

Ps As regards the dongle - I was using the 39 TL a month for 4GB pay as you go package - but I always had some GIG left over so I heard of the 10 GB for 3 months for 79 TL and bought that last month and it is working out  just right for me and 30% cheaper :-)
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Re: Getting some decent T.V. whilst on holiday
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2012, 20:49:14 PM »
Another idea is to but one of these and download movies or complete series onto it, we have something similar although ours is a docking station and we use 2 hard drives out of two broken laptops. At the moment my son uses it whilst he is away at college. He has numerous tv series and movies on the hard drive which then goes into the docking station and connects straight to the tv.
http://www.ebuyer.com/342378-sumvision-cyclone-micro-3-cyclonemicro3

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Re: Getting some decent T.V. whilst on holiday
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2012, 21:43:36 PM »
Thanks for the replies guys, however, as we only come over for holidays at the moment, we don't have wireless, so it seems to be back to square one.  Will speak to Ufuk in September, but not sure we want to get another dish.

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Re: Getting some decent T.V. whilst on holiday
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2012, 08:02:14 AM »
rescan your receiver, you should still be getting a decent number of channels such as the MBC ones with and FX etc.. plus various news channels.

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Re: Getting some decent T.V. whilst on holiday
« Reply #8 on: June 21, 2012, 15:07:39 PM »
Just need someone to get up on the roof and turn it about then?  Will give it a try.  Thanks

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Re: Getting some decent T.V. whilst on holiday
« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2012, 09:03:33 AM »
Turkish Cnbc-e on Turksat has news and finance at daytime , but after 6 pm they show series , films , shows in original language with turkish subtitles.

This is their main webpage : http://www.cnbce.com/

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this is their schedule : http://www.cnbce.com/akis/




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