Cable TV in Udon Thani

[BobHelm]

Anyone that has cable (I don't think it matters which) it is a good idea to do a new channel scan.
Now up to 80 Channels...

Falang channels :
8 Aussie channel
9 Italian
10 German
11 French
32 MM1 Movie channel
39 V Music channel
40 MTV Music channel
41 CCTV English language Chinese news/documentary
43 BBC News
44 Channel Newsasia (English language news, I think out of Singapore)
45 Bloomberg
47 NHK World (news/documentary)
48 Fox News
51 Sports (mainly The Golf Channel)
52 South African Sports Channel
53 South African Sports Channel
54 South African Sports Channel
55 Astro Sports
61 Stream Movies is a Thai station but often have English language movies with Thai sub titles
68 Fashion TV
73 Universal (New to me) Seems to be "American Programs" (House is on at the minute) with Thai sub titles English sound leaves a bit to be desired today though)
76 SciFi Channel - all American Sci Fi programs you can think of. Does repeat a bit through the day/week
79 Zone Reality (new on me) I think American reality programs

I think I have listed all of them....

[DeNuit]

I suppose you also have access to the not very good "TV5" in French... usually more interessting to watch russian tv subtile in chineese lol.

[BobHelm]

AH Yes, sorry deNuit missed that.....

11 TV5MONDE ASIE

I have adjusted my list to include....

[papaguido]

There seems to be a difference between Home & Udon TV (UTV) because along with what you listed I'm getting CNN, CNBC, MM2 & Filmax (out of Pakistan), but not getting SciFi or Channel NewsAsia. The sports channels I get are S5 & S3, have know idea where their based out of.

[pompui]

The sports channels I get are S5 & S3, have know idea where their based out of.

I presumed from Suede Africa but recently S2 has had Sky Sports news during the afternoon which has been good regarding the English football divisions and lately all the transfer talks.

[lassebasse]

What cable company would that be? We still have only the usual 66 channels!

[papaguido]

What cable company would that be? We still have only the usual 66 channels!

There are only 2 to choose from, Home & UTV. I have UTV and only picking up 65 channels. I believe Bob has Home cable judging by the channels he listed. Also, he's suggesting to run the Channel Scan feature in your TV's menu to tune in more stations.

[BobHelm]

Thank you Papa 100% correct in both cases...

From your earlier post, yes Sx are the South African sports channels. There are, I think, 6 different channels. Which ones we see seems to depend completely on Home. So can be any of them, on any of the channels. I have heard it is possible to phone up and 'request' a particular S channel on if there is a particular sport on one of them that you want to watch.

[lee]

It's good to see zone reality and BBC world news are back. Plenty of sports channels to choose from if you like your sport, unfortunately I don't. Oh well you can't complain for 300bt per month. I'll need to do the monthly re-tune to get the extra channels.

[lee]

For some bizarre reason I can't get zone reality, maybe I need to reset the TV and do a retune.

Here's a complete list of channels as shown on their brochure including Thai channels:

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[Roy]

Well thats very annoying
I am not getting any of the channels on Bob's Home Cable list after the Fashion Channel even after trying both Auto and Manual tunes.
What do you mean by resetting the TV Lee?

[BobHelm]

Maybe I am on Udon & not Home.....(The bills are all in Thai ) I know I was on Home at the last place & assumed we were when we moved..maybe we switched to Udon....I will ask TG when she is around.
There does not seem much correlation between what I get & what Lee is showing on his list...
There did not (about 2 years ago) used to be ANY difference between the two. I must admit I thought that there still wasn't - but there pretty obviously is from what Lee & myself are seeing...

[lee]

What do you mean by resetting the TV Lee?

I assume there's a factory reset somewhere. My channels are all over the place so I'm going to look for a reset button and start again.

[Marmite The Dog]

The list that Home Cable gave me was wrong from the start. :-"

[kevin2009]

Hi All.......where in Udon is best to buy a satellite system,dish etc. and what would i expect to pay for a very good system.......i doubt it is possible receive astra1 or 2 in Thailand...am i correct.
THANKS

[rickfarang]

Thank you for the channel guide, BobHelm!

[aznyron]

does any one know were I can buy a satellite dish that shows those channels since i am out in the boonies
all I have is UBC true which only covers a few of those channels I am namely interested in FOX news
I just like hear the B/S they are feeding the American people

[lepidoptra]

Kevin
As ou wll probably know cable TV has nothing to do with satellite tv, although sometimes cable can use satellite feeds but as the picture is retransmitted through the Analog cables quality of reception can vary immensley
There are 2 legal suppliers of satellite programming. PSI and UBC. PSI only invoves buying the equipment without a monthly subscription but I understand from friends that most programmes are chinese or Indian. Not sure whether they have Fox news. You can purchase 'pirate systems' without the need to subscribe to UBC but as an honest man I contribute to UBC ( Actually renamed TRUE visions). There are also steerable systems available but I'm not sure which satellites are within the footprint. Thailand is very sensitive about the content of their programmes and if you're looking for adult movies you can forget it. It is not possible to receive SKY as the footprints do not extend to south east asia. Someone may correct me and say "you can if you have a 50 metre diameter dish)
Anyway we have home cable which although English speaking programmes are limited it seems good value for 350 baht per month. We also have True which for me is not good value(gold package)
Hope my little post helps

[kevin2009]

Thanks Lepidoptra

[Fawn]

Hey Lepi, how you doing? Hope you're enjoying the UK.

Just bump this one up for Uncle Ronnie, anyone know who deals in setting up TV satellite systems in Udon?