bobby12 0 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 In the UK you can buy a satellite dish/reciever and pick up spanish/german/albanian etc channels - in this way you can watch premiership football and hollywood movies either for free or much cheaper than on Sky (by buying an annual viewing card for say the albanian provider). Is this possible in Japan? Is anyone doing this? Surely you are in the same satellite footprint as Thailand and you can get their channels... The channels on SkyPerfect are quite poor anyway really, theres only really Fox, BBCNews and Discovery worth watching besides the footy/movies. I imagine Thailand would have a better range of channels too. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted February 24, 2006 Author Share Posted February 24, 2006 just looked into this a bit, seems you can get a better selection from UBC in Thailand, for only 6000yen, but I'm not sure whether you can subscribe to it from outside thailand or not, and how good the signal would be in japan (its inside the footprint but you might need a big dish). UBC thailand footprint of UBC satellite BBC Prime Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Not sure about what you are asking. I have a cable TV connection so I just only use it. Some houses around seem to have that "dish" anntena thingy though. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 You can watch a lot of football on Internet streams out of China. All you need is broadband. Bitrates of 400kbps plus are common. The killer is the time difference. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted February 24, 2006 Author Share Posted February 24, 2006 is the quality of the streams close enough to TV quality wiggles? Link to post Share on other sites
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