Just out of curiosity what worth while channels would you get?

Console

so what channels would you get off foreign satellites that would be of use since they are in another language?


I see some football games are shown that wouldnt be shown over here / or unless you have sky. but is there anything else?

Minstrel27

Lots of continental channels do include an English language soundtrack

banie01

+1 on the English Audio across lots of providers!
Also if your interested in learning a language the immersion offered by foreign tv is great!
I watch of Spanish Canal+ to help me hable spic :P And the football total package is great too!

Pal

New release movies are well in advance of Sky.

Same for top shows. Boardwalk Empire, Desperate Housewives etc.,

All Premier League games live.

Unrivalled choice of European football.

Plenty of Sky Box Office events free, especially the boxing.
(Wrestling seems to be the exception)

Then there's a huge choice of HD channels.

Free MTV and other premium music channels.

Obviously tons of Foreign language stuff.

And some viewers might even find the naughty stuff a bit stronger than the Sky offerings - ahem !

Anything worth watching usually has an English language soundtrack.

For me its a no brainer. Problem is often that there is too much choice.

JaneAusten

But how much of this is FTA?
From my experience very little English Language is FTA, other than stuff you can already see on 28E

Pal

JaneAusten wrote: »

But how much of this is FTA?
From my experience very little English Language is FTA, other than stuff you can already see on 28E

OP never said anything about FTA.

For what its worth, there are approximately 6,000 channels possible over Ireland. I have no idea how many are FTA. Maybe 25% at a guess.

Console

Pal wrote: »

OP never said anything about FTA.

For what its worth, there are approximately 6,000 channels possible over Ireland. I have no idea how many are FTA. Maybe 25% at a guess.

So how many out of the channels you listed above would be FTA?

banie01

Console wrote: »

So how many out of the channels you listed above would be FTA?

Well to hazard a guess at what would be FTA based on the post you quoted, I would guess at @1500....
based on the 25% of 6000 that Pal gave as a ballpark.

Console

But is there any FTA decent movie channels or other channels that are in english?

Minstrel27

You wont get any decent movie or sport channels FTA from Hotbird or Astra 1. FTA English language channels consist of mostly news.

Pal

Console wrote: »

But is there any FTA decent movie channels or other channels that are in english?

.
English language free movies are on Astra 2.
If that's what you want, get Freesat.

Apogee

Console wrote: »

So how many out of the channels you listed above would be FTA?

If you have a dish of about 1M-1.2M you can get a number of US Series/Movies in English on Badr 4 26East e.g. MBC2, 4, MBC Max, Action, Dubai One,
www.mbc.net

thomasking22008

for me go for al jazeera sport 150euro and and cyfra package just just film and sport for under 200euro one year subscribe or can use tring subcribe 250euro a yeah lot good movie and sport for premier league english commitry

irishchris

thomasking22008 wrote: »

for me go for al jazeera sport 150euro and and cyfra package just just film and sport for under 200euro one year subscribe or can use tring subcribe 250euro a yeah lot good movie and sport for premier league english commitry

Just renewed my jsc sport 1-8 for only 65 .euro paid 125 last year so shop around

SomethingElse

irishchris wrote: »

Just renewed my jsc sport 1-8 for only 65 .euro paid 125 last year so shop around

Wow, where did you get that??

Pal

yes where please ?

mightybashful

irishchris wrote: »

Just renewed my jsc sport 1-8 for only 65 .euro paid 125 last year so shop around

yeah tell us please Chris