Looking to subscribe to cable/satellite, used to be provided by DIC but have move out of their jurisdiction (Etisalat "world" now).
What's best choice in your opinion(s).
Thanks in advance.
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Concord wrote:Looking to subscribe to cable/satellite, used to be provided by DIC but have move out of their jurisdiction (Etisalat "world" now).
What's best choice in your opinion(s).
Thanks in advance.
1. DSTV from SA, but go direct through Joburg instead of locally from the rip off Jinglies. I still can't understand why some people keep on handing over thousands of dirhams to these assholes everytime the tv stops working
fayz wrote:The best really is peasent vision, showtime, orbit, evision all aren't worth it imho and fricken expensive, with free to air, you get BBC world, Al Jazeera English, One TV, MBC 4,2 and their new action channell. You get local news as well as international and not great but pasable entertainment,when you factor in the price (free) it is the best way to go.
My two fils. better to spend your money on a better internet connection and download what you want to watch.
sauron wrote:Yeah, I don't see Etisalat being too happy. Do you know anyone who's actually managed to set one up?
Coops wrote:fayz wrote:The best really is peasent vision, showtime, orbit, evision all aren't worth it imho and fricken expensive, with free to air, you get BBC world, Al Jazeera English, One TV, MBC 4,2 and their new action channell. You get local news as well as international and not great but pasable entertainment,when you factor in the price (free) it is the best way to go.
My two fils. better to spend your money on a better internet connection and download what you want to watch.
Fayz, quick question - how do you get the free to air TV? Is it a simple matter of plugging into the wall aerial and away you go?
We don't have TV at the moment (but have aquired a truckload of DVDs since arriving) and am starting to miss the 'background noise' tv can provide.
fayz wrote:Coops wrote:fayz wrote:The best really is peasent vision, showtime, orbit, evision all aren't worth it imho and fricken expensive, with free to air, you get BBC world, Al Jazeera English, One TV, MBC 4,2 and their new action channell. You get local news as well as international and not great but pasable entertainment,when you factor in the price (free) it is the best way to go.
My two fils. better to spend your money on a better internet connection and download what you want to watch.
Fayz, quick question - how do you get the free to air TV? Is it a simple matter of plugging into the wall aerial and away you go?
We don't have TV at the moment (but have aquired a truckload of DVDs since arriving) and am starting to miss the 'background noise' tv can provide.
hahahaha, surprisingly my DVD collection has grown since moving here as well
Do you live in an apartment or a villa? assuming you're in an apartment then chances are there is a satellite on the roof of the building, at least one of those will be your free to air ones. We did exactly that in our old place, plugged the cable into the TV and then ran a 'search' and found all the channels,
When we moved to our current place though the connection at the house was disconnected so we had to just reconnect it, somebody just never connected it, just ran a search and again we were good to go. the first place we did it directly to the TV, the second we used a reciever. I'm not really sure if a reciever is required but we're using one.
Good luck
fayz wrote:hahahaha, surprisingly my DVD collection has grown since moving here as well
Do you live in an apartment or a villa? assuming you're in an apartment then chances are there is a satellite on the roof of the building, at least one of those will be your free to air ones. We did exactly that in our old place, plugged the cable into the TV and then ran a 'search' and found all the channels,
When we moved to our current place though the connection at the house was disconnected so we had to just reconnect it, somebody just never connected it, just ran a search and again we were good to go. the first place we did it directly to the TV, the second we used a reciever. I'm not really sure if a reciever is required but we're using one.
Good luck
Concord wrote:Where do I get a receiver and what is it called "a satellite receiver" or ...
fayz wrote:Hmmm sorry to hear that. The brand we have is OpenStar, Ours do not have a card slot.
When you ran a search on it did you find any Satellites, i.e. Nilesat, Arabsat, Hotbird?
What I don't mind doing is lending you one of our recievers to see if you can get it going, call me after work and maybe together we can figure out the problem. I should be home by 6pm