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Basil

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I was having trouble sleeping so was up at 3:AM watching Fox News when all of the sudden I was watching some Pakistani Talk show! What the...? So I start channel surfing and discover that every other channel is some foreign show. CNN is in Japanese, MSNBC is in, I don't know what. Many of them appear to be in Arabic. Very strange! Even CSPAN is some foreign programming.
 
MWUHAAHAAHAA!!!!!

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!

:devilgrin: :jester:
 
DrEntropy said:
MWUHAAHAAHAA!!!!!

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!

:devilgrin: :jester:
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Well, "Doo-doo-doo do-ter-tum" right back at ya!
 
same thing happened here. International feed?
 
I got an email this afternoon from them stating they were doing some routine maintenance and some of the programming may have been temporarily messed up.
 
I've had the same thing with cable-the feeds get swapped, suddenly I have ten History Channels (all showing the same thing) and no Comedy Central, everything's in Swahili, and so on.
 
William said:
I've had the same thing with cable-the feeds get swapped, suddenly I have ten History Channels (all showing the same thing) and no Comedy Central, everything's in Swahili, and so on.
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Have you considered the possibility that that IS Comedy Central? :whistle:

seriously, one of my great satellite TV disappointments is that I always wished there would be more international TV instead of 27 versions of the same thing. I'd love to practice my dutch, french, or just BBC or Australia or whatever.
 
JPSmit said:
seriously, one of my great satellite TV disappointments is that I always wished there would be more international TV instead of 27 versions of the same thing. I'd love to practice my dutch, french, or just BBC or Australia or whatever.
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If you have Firefox browser, there is an add-on (free) you can get called TV-Fox which streams TV programming from all over the world. It works pretty well.
 
Our camper in the Poconos has free cable, but the cable company gets its feed from the Dish Network. So periodically we have searching for satellite screens instead of channels when the weather is stormy in the area...but it is free.
 
Brooklands said:
Our camper in the Poconos has free cable, but the cable company gets its feed from the Dish Network. So periodically we have searching for satellite screens instead of channels when the weather is stormy in the area...but it is free.
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Years ago we lived in a village where they brought in cable by pointing three satellite dishes in the air. Thus, we had 2 super channels from the US south, a movie network from the East Coast City TV from Edmonton, CBC from the arctic - local news in Inuit - it was a hoot! we never knew what was on and no TV guide could cover it.
 
Basil said:
JPSmit said:
If you have Firefox browser, there is an add-on (free) you can get called TV-Fox which streams TV programming from all over the world. It works pretty well.
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I may have to try that out-does it get any of the UK networks?

-Wm.
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Our summer house had no regular TV.

Just a local Korean station (via our roof antennae) that played the news (in Korean) and Korean soap operas. I thought it was great. Linda was not so enthused about it. :rolleyes:

When the digital signal came in, we lost it (and didn't gain any new channels).

For those looking for "free cable TV", you can always buy an FTA dish and make sure it's aimed properly (or get a rotator for it). Under $200 with a rotator and cheaper if you use a fixed one.

~FTA Television Signal~
 
I'm not necessarily looking for "free cable", but I'd like to be able to watch some of the shows I only get to see sporadically, like TG or Being Human, which I only get to watch when I'm at someone's house that gets BBCA (or when Dish is offering it as a freebie for a week at a time, which happens once a year, usually when I'm not home of course!).
 
My wife figured out away to record every NCIS episode on USA Network. For some reason it also recorded the SVU shows too. I was intending to watch one episode hadn't seen before- I haven't seen it yet. It was replaced with a what appeared to be a south Asian show- Indian. Interesting.
 
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