Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Information and Services in Turkey Section => Television & Satellite in Turkey => Topic started by: Rimms on April 26, 2012, 12:49:57 PM
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Over the years we have tried a number of satellite based systems including pay monthly from Digiturk and free systems with loads of channels, mainly Arabic, these seem to be OK but tend to change and stop broadcasting channels regularly,often the English ones we watched.
Now with the Internet and VPN connection, we have been using Filmon.com to stream live TV which has a good selection of UK channels but seems to freeze once a high demand for any particular program occurs, both champions league semi final games for instance became impossible to watch.
So now confused between internet stream or a satellite system.
What works for you?
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If you are able to stream then try paying for flash sports streams. You can try one day for £2.95 and a year is £36 I think.
With it being a paid service it tends not to get overloaded for big events. I watched the CL on Tuesday without any problems.
It gives you Sky Sports 1,2,3&4 plus some of the HD sports channels through the VIP section.
Eurosport
ESPN
Sky F1
BBC1
ITV1
Fox USA
Fox Oz
Fox Canada
You can always pick up the Prem games if they are being shown anywhere in the world and basically anything else, fottball wise that is sold abroad.
It will play on your PC, Ipad, Iphone and Apple TV so it's pretty versatile.
Worth a punt for the sports but it won't get you all the freeview channels.
Have you tried TV Catchup? That has all the freeview channels but might have the same problems at peak times.
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Wwitv is also worth looking at but it has lots of foreign channels that you might not want - and not that many UK ones. Crap really ;-)
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look at a slingbox.
it's a little set top box left in the UK and broadscasts your home TV package (SKY, Cable or Freeview) to you anywhere over the internet.
As it is a private stream it's dependable.
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That Sling Box system looks good, has anyone tried it?
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I too am interested in getting TV in Turkey, at home we have:
Full SKY package
SKY broadband
and am considering a Slingbox or Dreambox or Apple TV or Viewtvabroad web site
Over in Turkey I have
40" LCD TV
Laptop (wifi enabled) with hdmi connection
Turkcell 4G Dongle 3G
Sony Playstation 3
The big problem I can forsee is the Turkcell Dongle not being up to it. As anyone got experience of using a Dongle to view TV, over the internet? If so can you give a rough estimation of how much viewing time I could expect per 1GB.
Cheers
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I've a slingbox at home and it works great.
The only problem is that a reliable broadband connection is required, so really ADSL and not via 3g dongle.
It also consumes lots of data, so you need unlimited downloads.
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Dongle won't cope you need ADSL line with fast speed and unlimited downloads.
We use a dream box and have done so for 2 years and are very pleased with it.
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Thanks superpp and Firo. I suspected as much, probably go for a satellite dish, does anyone have any suggestions regarding SKY TV. this way. Do I have to take a reciever and card out with me? What is the smallest dish required? Any information would be most gratefully accepted.
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Check with Gary
He can answer all your questions
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are you moving over or just holiday stays? If just holiday stays get nilesat on a free to air package, would be about £100 installed. only go for a dearer option if staying longer
digiturk also starts at £10 a month and removes the internet problem.
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You would need a 1.5m dish and yes you would need to take a reciever and card with you for Sky