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| Pauline |
I don't think that it's dubbed as the flemish TV put subtitles like in Holland. In wallonie, all the foreign language programmes are dubbed but I prefer subtitles. What different language channels have you- Afrikaans, English (British and South African) I suppose, but what more? We've those British channels, walloon RTBF 1,2, flemish 1,2 & VTM, holladn 1,2,3, France 1,2,3,4,5, TV5, Rai 1,2,3, Spain TVE International, Germany ZDF, and another one, CNN and more!!! |
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| Benjamin [inactive] |
I have five channels — BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4, and Five.
We also have digital, which apparently includes a number of other channels, but I never watch it because I don't know how to use that television. I know, I'm really lazy — I've never bothered to learn how to use the digital box. 
And when I move to Scotland, I will literally have access to only four channels — BBC1, BBC2, STV and Channel 4. And no option of having digital, cable or satellite either. Not that I actually watch much television though, so I'm not really that bothered. |
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| Pauline |
During the last about 2 years I didn't watch television at all, but before I watched and some things are worth it to see. It's very nice to have the different languages TV.
Only 4 channels!!!??!!! But of course the most important is that the programmes are interesting, and one channel can be sufficient if it broadcast good things. Our digital channels are frm the WiFi and the decoder. It's *very* simple so I suppose your system's another one. Probably soon I will watch TV again. In Scotland is there a channel in Scots and/or gaelic? Here there's not a channel in walloon. |
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| Porthos |
You poor Europeans..... 
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| André in Zuid-Afrika |
Four free-on-air channels, three run by the state broadcaster (South African Broadcasting Corporation) and one private channel (e-tv). SABC1 and SABC2 broadcast in all eleven official languages (each in five or six) and SABC3 in English. e-tv is mainly English as well. We also have DStv, which is satellite (not cable) television with about 60 channels (including CNN, Sky News, BBC World, BBC Prime, Travel Channel, History Channel, etc, also a wide range of movie channels, one channel each in Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, Greek and a few other languages, and a number of local channels). DStv also has two Afrikaans channels. Its fairly cheap, works out at around €40 per month. A second satellite television service will be launched in the next year or two. |
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| André in Zuid-Afrika |
Still in an experimental phase, but the biggest cell phone company has already started with TV broadcasts on cell phones (mobile phones). We're switching to digital TV completely next year, dropping analog. |
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| Benjamin [inactive] |
STV make a few programmes in Scottish-Gaelic. I don't think that there are any programmes made specifically in Scots, although it might often be sort of merged with English. |
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| Lazar |
I have digital cable, so I get a huge range of specialized cable channels. Unfortunately I don't really have access to much foreign-language programming - just a couple Spanish networks, plus "HBO Latino". | ||||||
| Loic |
Over here, we have a few terrestrial channels that are free to all who pay their annual licence fee: Channel 5 (English language programmes), Channel 8 (Chinese language), Channel U (Chinese language), Suria (Malay language) and Central (plays a dual role of both a children's entertainment channel as well as a platform for Tamil and Hindi programmes).
On top of that, we also have a channel dedicated to news around the clock in English: Channel News Asia. I have cable TV and the cost depends on the sort of programme package which you have signed up for. I have HBO, Cinemax, CH95 (Zee Sports Cricket Channel), TV5 Monde, DW-TV, CH 96 (an Australian channel which I forgot), ESPN, Starsports, AXN, etc. It is not too expensive but there are quite a number of channels which are actually surplus to the programme package such as the cricket channel which costs me around SGD 80 a month alone. ESPN and Starsports cost me an additionao SGD 20. That makes 100 dollars (or roughly 50 euros) more in additional costs alone. |
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| greg in noord-frankrijk |
I don't know how many channels I have access to. Languages available : French, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Arabic, Berber, Russian, Polish, Armenian (and perhaps some more). | ||||||
| Lazar |
Wow, that is impressive. I'd love to have such a variety of foreign-language channels. | ||||||
| Akoni |
I have digital cable TV as well, loads and loads of channels
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| Wanderin |
All this western tv thingies always impress me. How come that you can have channels in so many different foreign languages? OK, you have sattelite TV, but here with sputnik, i can watch again mostly Russian channels.
I have access to about 17-20 channels in Russian (well it's normal thing for everyone), if i buy sattelite tv, then probably i'll have about 30 channels in Russian together, like o2tv (teen's channel, RuTV - only russian music, channel with only Russian films, sport, etc.), even if i choose channels like Discovery, it's dubbed in Russian, Euronews, Eurosport are also in Russian...you can watch CNN of course but it's expensive as hell 
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| André in Zuid-Afrika |
While looking for something else, I came across these pics of early television sets... 
USA 
Britain 
France (1929) 
Russia (1934) 
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| André in Zuid-Afrika |
Germany (1960) 
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| Swede33 |
I´ve got digital cabletv with aprox. 50 channels.
Here in Swdeden we swiched over completely to digital tv last year. Sometimes when my friends comes over and we´re a bit drunk we watch the pornchannels and have a laugh. Hmm 
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| Uriel |
I've had no cable or satellite service for months. Can't say that I've missed it, either. I live with a guy, so when we had TV reception, it was always tuned to a sports channel ... sadly, I never saw any porn. Just the occasional boob shot on Skinemax. | ||||||
| Deborah |
I haven't had cable for many years. Unfortunately, the programming on the standard channels has greatly deteriorated over the years. After midnight, there's hardly anything but infomercials on the English language stations, and primetime TV seems to be mostly cop shows or reality shows. I mainly use my TV for watching videos, but I also watch DW-TV, BBC World news, programs on Chinese language stations when they have English subtitles, and as much as I can stomach of the Spanish language stations. They don't have great programming either, but I can tolerate the news and movies...well, some of them. | ||||||
| Didier69 |
I get many French channels on ADSL tv. I also get many German channels, one Dutch BVN tv, some Spanish and CNN, BBC World and Sky news via a dish aerial. | ||||||
| Tiffany |
I don't have a TV. | ||||||
| Deborah |
Un-American! |
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| Benjamin [inactive] |
I don't have a television either, and effectively haven't had access to one since September. I can't say I miss it at all, to be honest.
The house I'm living in next does have a television though. I'm assuming that it will have four channels — BBC 1 Scotland, BBC 2 Scotland, STV and Channel 4. |
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| Loic |
Say, I was wondering if advertisements are shown on cable channels like HBO in your country.
In the not so distant past, adverts were the sole domain of the terrestrial channels. In recent years however, adverts have launched a creeping invasion of my beloved cable channels. It is especially worse for the cricket channel when an advert would be shown every 2 or 3 overs. It's dreadfully annoying. Nobody goes off for a commercial break in a Uefa champions league match, do they? |
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| Uriel |
If memory serves, there are plenty of commercials on regular cable. Not sure about Cinemax and HBO, as those are premium channels (you pay even more for them) and I haven't had those for years.
I think in the beginning there weren't any commercials on cable, since your monthly fee was the main source of revenue for those channels, but once cable became so common, commercials were inevitable -- revenue or not, advertisers still need to reach their target market. |
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| JGreco |
I think on cable television in the states that they advertise shows that air on HBO to entice someone to ordering a premium channel. I nearly ordered showtime because it has one of my favorite shows on television "Dexter". Though instead I was able to download all the episodes to watch but nearly got in trouble at the end because the movie studio promoting the show sent me aa nasty e-mail stating that they would sue me unless I remove those shows off my computer. I felt a little exposed at that moment. 
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| Uriel |
Big Brother is watching you. And NBC, CBS, and possibly MGM. Hmmm. | ||||||
| Rio |
Provided you are in an Australian capital city or nearby:
TEN - commercial (rubbish) NINE - commercial (rubbish) SEVEN - commercial (rubbish) SBS - foreign language broadcaster (quite good) ABC1 - government broadcaster which mostly produces interesting shows and broadcasts a lot of BBC stuff (quite good) I got digital a month ago because the analogue signal at my place is pretty terrible. I get everything on digital except seven which does not emit signals too well here. Digital also had two more stations: SBS news - news service of any foreign language thinkable ABC2 - repeats and other extra shows which is quite good If you want to see what's showing on Aussie TV: http://www.yourtv.com.au |
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