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Polish TV

  • 17-12-2007 01:21PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 800 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I want to get Polish TV in the house. What do I need to do. I do not have a satellite and only have the NTL basic package.

    Regards,

    Michael


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭tapfit2004


    you'll need an 80cm dish pointed at 13e hotbird and a satellite receiver (not a sky box). if you want polsat or c+ poland you will need a subscription card and a receiver that the card can be used in. there are a few free channels on 7e eutelsat but more on 13e


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 800 ✭✭✭Michael O Leary


    tapfit2004 wrote: »
    you'll need an 80cm dish pointed at 13e hotbird and a satellite receiver (not a sky box). if you want polsat or c+ poland you will need a subscription card and a receiver that the card can be used in. there are a few free channels on 7e eutelsat but more on 13e

    Thanks, so tell me what I need to do. Where do I get a dish and receiver and subscription card? How do I install it? Can I just ring someone and get them to do it for me?

    Regards,

    Michael


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭teetotaller


    so
    the thing is that polish radio and tv regulation doesn't give permission to watch most of the polish channels outside Poland
    but becouse companies ( cyfra +, polsat ) want to get better incomes they are selling it to polish people living abroad. U get contract from cyfra+ let say and one of point says that u can't use it outside Poland.

    so u need to be registrated in Poland and have polish adress used for correspondency etc.

    then u can buy receiver , card , etc - it look like official way is mission impossible for you.

    <snip>

    best way to watch some programs

    is

    www.itvp.pl

    ***************************************


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Discussing the use or supply of counterfeit cards is not allowed on this forum.
    Many of the streaming sites are also illegally re-broadcasting copyrighted material.

    @ teetotaller I would advise you to revise your post further before I can check out the links.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭teetotaller


    Hagar wrote: »
    Discussing the use or supply of counterfeit cards is not allowed on this forum.
    Many of the streaming sites are also illegally re-broadcasting copyrighted material.

    @ teetotaller I would advise you to revise your post further before I can check out the links.


    understood, links revised. One that is still there is 100% legal as it is polish tv's channel website.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Sound man. Thanks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭Ulsterman 1690


    13 deg east is the main satellite for Polish TV/radio (some stuff on 19 east too but most of it duplicated on 13 east)

    Quite a few Polish channels are FTA but the better ones all require a sub (having said that a sub to Polsat is only a fraction of the cost of what us monolingual English speakers have to pay if we want $ky :mad: )

    There are satellite installers advertising in magazines like Glosik who do FTA and Polsat systems

    Alternatively one can subscribe to Polsat from an address in Poland and then take the reciever/dish/card abroad (Ive seen Polsat branded dishes on houses in Belfast but quite frankly Id imagine the owners would have been better leaving the dish (but maybe take the LNB) in Poland and buying an 80cm dish cheap in somewhere like Maplin

    Trying to get an 80cm dish in ones flight luggage is probably expensive/awkward


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭teetotaller


    13 deg east is the main satellite for There are satellite installers advertising in magazines like Glosik who do FTA and Polsat systems


    this info give directions to the same kind of people I mentioned about in first post and it was removed, so this link above shouldn't be here as well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭Ulsterman 1690


    Nothing wrong with linking to a magazine website surely.:confused:

    Glosik (free magazine aimed at Polish expat community in Ireland/Northern Ireland) is widely available and the items/services advertised therin are perfectly legal (well as far as I can make out not being a Polish speaker)

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055109597&highlight


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,461 ✭✭✭✭watty


    There are some quite good Polish channels free, but the main one most people want seem to be on the Cyfra+ susbscription.
    Many people in Limerick have the legal Polish subscription, and if there is nothing to watch, there is always the Polish Pub in Henry St.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭teetotaller


    it is illegal to sell polsat or whatever outside polish borders, so installers can't have original legal cards.
    u gave link to forum where u can find people who sell illegal cards and are thiefts

    that's why it should be removed - I was told the same by Hagar.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Technically you have a legal right to view any channel that any other EU Citizen can view. Service providers try to restrict your rights in line with their marketing rights but they legally can't and they all know it. That is why most will have the good sense to sell their product/service to anyone who "seems" to comply with their marketing agreements. We can discuss such arrangements here as the supplier is paid in full for his services. Nobody is being defrauded of anything. Counterfeit cards are a whole different matter and are illegal in all EU states.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭teetotaller


    it is more tricky than it looks like

    it is good business for companies that provide paid channels, but polish law says, that u need to pay tv licence if want to watch polish tv. and u can't pay tv licence if u don't have polish adress and the round is closing.

    of course u can gat few free channels on astra, eutelsat, hotbird. but they are private tv stations and are not under public tv regulations


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭Ulsterman 1690


    Ummm Polish law can say what it pretty much well likes. When one goes outside the borders of Poland it doesnt apply. I cant imagine them interrogating returning expats over their TV viewing habits even if they have been trying to shaft them with things like double taxation


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,461 ✭✭✭✭watty


    The BBC won't accept TV licence payments from outside UK either. (Strangely some people from UK living in Spain think they ought to pay UK tV licence).

    If you watching Polish TV or UK TV in Ireland, you pay only the Irish TV licence. The Netherlands have a Annual paid basic TV viewing card for Satellite. You can get it here via a Dutch shop (Netherlands Social Security Number Required). Irish TV licence needed.

    Because Switzerland is NOT in EU, they can charge for a viewing card (like Dutch Scheme), but only for Swiss Citizens, but will send it directly to Ireland. Irish TV licence required. The Dutch card as they are in EU, has to be for ANY resident of any EU nationality. Like the UK FTV card they won't post it abroad directly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭kmurph


    There are loads of the cyfra + & polsat branded dishes all over the place here in Wexford town.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 348 ✭✭John Dough


    kmurph wrote: »
    There are loads of the cyfra + & polsat branded dishes all over the place here in Wexford town.

    Yeah and most of 'em don't have official subs;);)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,461 ✭✭✭✭watty


    You have checked personally?

    Read the Charter! That borders on Libel.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭teetotaller


    John Dough wrote: »
    Yeah and most of 'em don't have official subs;);)


    so.... can u tell me why do they have original cyfra+ and polsat dishes if they don't have official subscriptions? can u get just a dish without sub?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 SatelliteServie


    Because they have illegal cyfra+ card .. Cost is 180€ for card and 1 year watching this TV all chanels like HBO HBO2 Discovery.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,461 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Note. Only information about legal cards is allowed. Other information can be a criminal offence.

    Discussion of illegal reception is also against Boards Rules


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭tony231974


    Hi all,I have polish channels and was wondering if there is ant site that I
    could use to view the programme listings in english.Thanks


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,080 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nowso


    tony231974 wrote: »
    Hi all,I have polish channels and was wondering if there is ant site that I
    could use to view the programme listings in english.Thanks


    For canal + channels



    http://www.canalplus.pl/program


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭tony231974


    Nowso wrote: »


    That's in Polish...In English please.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭cluelez


    tony231974 wrote: »
    That's in Polish...In English please.

    try google translate


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,080 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nowso


    cluelez wrote: »
    try google translate


    yes use chrome and u can translate the page into english


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭EireIceMan


    I use Google Chrome browser and at the top a drop down bar appears offering to translate the site. Handy tool.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭jpsr


    I found when searching for viewing cards for other european countries, that suppliers can charge huge money, I have a total tv card for 16e.

    Some suppliers where charging between 500 + euro, but i managed to find the total tv website and and get a sub for 120 euro for the year, even though im irish they still gave me a subscription.

    I advise doing the same with other packages


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    jpsr wrote: »
    I found when searching for viewing cards for other european countries, that suppliers can charge huge money, I have a total tv card for 16e.

    Some suppliers where charging between 500 + euro, but i managed to find the total tv website and and get a sub for 120 euro for the year, even though im irish they still gave me a subscription.

    I advise doing the same with other packages

    And where was the card/decoder posted to?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    tony231974 wrote: »
    Hi all,I have polish channels and was wondering if there is ant site that I
    could use to view the programme listings in english.Thanks

    For mobile devices i use this app (Also has an alarm to remind you when a program is starting):

    Android:
    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.wp.programtv&hl=en

    Windowsphone:
    http://www.windowsphone.com/en-ie/store/app/program-tv/5148f645-13e9-4354-9f90-15befbd900e2

    In Polish but usually the original name of the film is in brackets in the infomation.


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