Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Information and Services in Turkey Section => Television & Satellite in Turkey => Topic started by: Carolyn1957 on June 22, 2012, 10:22:17 AM
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Hi.
I'm looking for some advice please from you good folks please!
We've managed with an ordinary free-to-view digibox and two dishes for quite a while now but are getting fed up with the ever decreasing number of English speaking channels and getting more and more "service is scrambled" or "no signal" on channels that were there a few days earlier.
What other options are there please, and what do you recommend? Friends have Digiturk and seem reasonably happy with it. I am a concerned about some of the horror stories when people have tried to cancel it or being threatened with court action if they don't return boxes already returned!
How about dreambox? Is it expensive to install and what about annual/monthly costs?
I am signed up to VPN so can use i-player etc but find the slow speeds and loss of bandwidth at peak times a complete pain!
Thank you
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We have Digiturk which is great for US comedy, sport and some nature programmes. It also shows old US x factor and US got talent etc. We don't watch it much now and of course very little in the summer.
I do download from BBC i player and then watch the programmes through the TV (by plugging in with hdmi cable) this will avoid the buffering problem.
Another option is to download via a torrent download site such as thepiratebay.com or isohunt. We transfer the download onto a media player attached to the TV and that avoids having to plug the computer in. You can get all sorts of stuff that way - films, tv series (The Sheild, Game of Thrones, Desperate Housewives) in fact anything that is on TV really (the more current it is the more likely you will be able to download it quickly)
Haven't gone down the full satellite package route yet to get say forces tv which shows a version on BBC and ITV, but am sure someone has already talked about this on a previous thread.
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If you have broadband you can get TVcatchup will need a site to hide IP address will give you all UK channels
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If you have broadband you can get TVcatchup will need a site to hide IP address will give you all UK channels
Best site for hiding your IP address is UKTV Access at £3.99 / month if you prepay 3 months or £4.99 / month otherwise
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We have filmon. As u dont need a VNP tunnel the speed doesnt slow down. It used to be free but if you want a full size picture now it is 149 pounds for a year. We have been watching it for about a year and have never had a problem with it even. You can still watch it for nothing on a laptop but we want it on our TV screen and you can download onto a player for later viewing. YOu can also pay monthly if u want to.
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We know 2 couples who have bought the dreambox system and really regret it now. Thery wish they hadnt bothered.
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I use bit torent and apple tv. Best media player by far out there and reads from a large hard drive off the wireless network. Together with this I have a "hide my ass" VPN which is around 11 USD per month but gives you UK, US or other country ip addresses so you can watch live TV. I can even use my iphone to watch live UK telly or youtube via VPN and with a touch on the phone screen, it transfers to my big TV via apple TV. Best 99 USD I have spent for an apple device.
I also have 2 digiturk accounts but it is overpriced in my opinion.
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We know 2 couples who have bought the dreambox system and really regret it now. Thery wish they hadnt bothered.
Is it true that you can no longer get ITV anymore on Dreambox? If so it would appear that people who bought the dreambox system wasted their money. Firstly, dreambox stopped BFBS about 2 years ago, and now ITV. I know a few folk who bought this system simply to get British TV (without having to have a huge sat dish) . I know you can get shed loads of channels with it, but, if you can only get channel 4 from the UK it really is a waste of money.
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As someone who enjoys watching sport on TV I consider it to be a bargain. ;D 8)
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Totally agree loads of sport english football sky movies sky sports news channels discovery etc
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We have dream box and get loads of Sky channels, C4, more 4 and lots lots more. Only lost ITV which we can get through our VPN along with BBC iplayer. Through this we also have Digiturk and also got Nile Sat for lots of English language programs. UFUK set us up with a server and if it scrambles we just take the dreambox in for them to re set.
Very Happy so far.
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Jailbroke Apple tv, best thing ever.
I have iphone 4, apple tv and airplay.
I can watch all the content of filmon from my phone to the tv via airplay.
its amazing.
Then, all the content of the jailbroken apple tv box, 75% of which you dont need vpn.
I also have a Samsung smart tv with iplayer app.
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I have the Dreambox setup with a motorised dish loads of English speaking channels including Sky Sports 2,3,4 + F1 + Sky Movies and still get BFPS 1-10 .
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I've got a SATP37C Samsung decoder using VPN and a USB Sateliite hooked up to a large bandwith dongle on my iPAd II and my Blackberry which receives 76 different channels including USA (both coasts) and China without any signal degredation or streaming.
Total bolllocks of course - I just wanted to impress you techies for 30 seconds ;D
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I've got a SATP37C Samsung decoder using VPN and a USB Sateliite hooked up to a large bandwith dongle on my iPAd II and my Blackberry which receives 76 different channels including USA (both coasts) and China without any signal degredation or streaming.
Total bolllocks of course - I just wanted to impress you techies for 30 seconds ;D
I was almost impressed until I saw 'dongle' and ipadII in the same sentence! LOL
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I've got a SATP37C Samsung decoder using VPN and a USB Sateliite hooked up to a large bandwith dongle on my iPAd II and my Blackberry which receives 76 different channels including USA (both coasts) and China without any signal degredation or streaming.
Total bolllocks of course - I just wanted to impress you techies for 30 seconds ;D
I was almost impressed until I saw 'dongle' and ipadII in the same sentence! LOL
I didn't buy it at all.
It's a iPad 2 - not ipadII and bandwidth not bandwith
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And it did it without streaming!
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If you have a Dreambox or Tecnomate with a dish big enough to get Sky you would be able to get the full Sky package and all free to air UK channels from a card sharing company based outside the UK for around £100 a year
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Steve - I didn't buy it either ;)
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[Trigger from Only Fools and Horses Voice] "I'll take one"... :D
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Is there a particular person or shop who can set it all up for us when we get there as we are pretty rubbish at anything remotely technical? A few British channels would be good.
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contact Echostar on here. He should be able to help
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Thanks Anne. We shall certainly do that when the time comes. I presume you contact him by sending a message via this forum and just typing in "Echostar" and it will get there? So sorry about being so unfamiliar with how this works but computers and things are all very new to us.
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yes Sandy, you can contact him via his profile
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UFUK in Fethiye are excellent and set us up with everything needed....
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yes Sandy, you can contact him via his profile
Thanks Anne
Hi Sandy
Follow the link
http://calis-beach.co.uk/forum/buy_sell_forum/iptv_uk_tv_terrestrial_channels_bbc1_itv1_and_all_others_48375.0.html
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Thanks Echostar. We will be in touch during October I think. We are expecting to exchange contracts on our sale here in the UK next week with completion before the end of October. We are coming out w/c 23 September to view properties in Calis so hope to have somewhere to live in Calis by the end of October and will contact you as soon as we have. I can't go too long without some British TV!
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I remember being convinced that one of the free boxes with a 1.5m motorised dish was the way to go - turn the dish to face all the different satellites and there are no end of English channels.
We spent the next 3 months watching cheaters, the ITV News Channel, and Cartoon Network in French.
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They were the days keith shows you how things have moved on no dish and most of the uk terrestrial channels so it can be chucking it down now with out lost of signal and things have improved as most of fethiye has fibre optic cable now
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Cant get naff all on my sat now 99% scrambled or no signal bulgarian sat too.
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just had dreambox installed, Brilliant!!! BFBS, bbc entertainment, sky sports discovery channels, we havent watched anyting, due to channel hopping!! lol!
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How much TV do you watch? we tend to watch a little in the Summer months and a lot more in the Winter. We still have enough with film on. you can record the programmes u want and still watch the main uk channels plus a lot od others. I really dont see the need for paying for dishes. boxes and the like. My mates paid a huge amount of money. They are stuck with a dish and not even ITV. and it still relies on how good your internet is and quite honestly it is a pain in the A""""s. Who wants to go and keep getting it reset..... We do however have Sky player which is free. We have my daughters password from the UK for her Sky package. We can watch everything on her package and we dont have to watch what she is watching at the same time.. and she has all the sports channels. lol. So do we ...