Please be very very careful about downloading.I have 10 invites available for thebox.bz but I was caught donloading by HADOPI as downloading and I got a serious warning .meaning the second time round one gets an important fine and no access to any internet for 2 years .This was the only way I was able to watch english t.v. as I'm not able to install a satelite dish on my house.There is another one calles Uknova which you have to request an invite and they aren't as strict about their downloadin ratio
Despite the deluge..."absorbing" match in Paris yesterday...Draw seemed to be the fair result...But difficult to understand why the English ref didn't yellow card Gordon D'Arcy and Cian Healey? Interestingly (?) the BBC had 2 Welshmen and an Englishman on the commentary team and ex-Irish hooker Keith Wood on the inside...Balanced? Hmmmm....Tut! Tut!
We had a new TV with a USB connection. We downloaded shows to an external Hard disk and plugged into the TV. You can try and get an invite to thebox.bz for UK shows or https://torrentzone.net/index.php you will need a Torrent client on your pc. A good free one is Utorrent (for windows) http://www.utorrent.com/ . It is a little bit of work but well worth it for your favourite shows. Watch out on the box for your ratio. They are very strict. Download free stuff to get your ratio up in the beginning.
Hi Terry. That would be my biggest problem. We have several Irish teams in the Heineken cup, including our own team Leinster, so I'm guessing Canal+ would only carry games when French teams were playing. IN fact, we have 3 Irish teams in the quarter finals, with only 1 team from each of the other participating countries, with the exception of Italy.
Canalsat has a specialist rugby channel called Rugby+ but I don't know if it carries anything but French Top 14 matches. Canal+ has its own rugby channel which carries Heineken Cup games and matches from down under but very much doubt they will have Irish rugby.
Hi all. Hope it's okay to add my query here re TV. We brought our Sky+ box with us from Ireland to France, mainly for the rugby - we are complete rugby nuts. The main reasoning is that whilst I think we would get all the Six Nations games on French TV, we would not get our home games in the ERC as Sky have the right to all ERC games in Ireland. Also, the French teams don't compete in the Rabo Pro 12 league (it was formerly called the Celtic League and had teams from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, and recently the Italian teams joined), so I'm guessing French channels would not show Rabo Pro 12 games. We currently have the Sky+ package (Irish platform) for which we pay a lot via monthly direct debit. We don't watch any other channels on Sky except for the French channel, TV5. We have phone and internet from Orange at €38 and €21 respectively.
My question is: what would be the best package for us? I would love to have more French channels but must have the rugby! Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance. Sheila
Hear, hear!
humax boxes off amazon or big electro chains online. couple of years back of course, but I paid £60 on the nose. so allow for inflation (seven million, eight hundred thou..... - just joking). with postage it was not even a €100 budget for that.
orange's deal gives the main french channels plus a bit like bbc news channel in english. solidly dire except for the gems on french tv but then ALL of our French friends seem to have tvs for their kids' wii, etc and more than a few do not have receiver, my wife, my children and I are French speakers and would happily use if quality matched or surpassed UK tv. as said elsewhere our other receiver for me to get german (bilingual since my infancy) and OH her first lingo italian also gives us as many things like csi miami in english (subtitles galore for umpteen countries we are receiving) plus a few 'leak' usa, canada and so on channels 'allowed' to be picked up over here then the whole thing is ideal for people who like wallpaper tv at the very least.
Yes! I saw the French version here and was impressed by how Arthur made it funny and interesting. I couldn't believe how bad Noel Edmonds' version was in comparison. What I found even harder to believe was that this had relaunched his career. I must have been away too long.
If you ever saw 'A prendre ou à laisser' hosted by Arthur on French TV you wouldn't believe that the English version 'Deal or No deal' hosted by Noel Edmonds is the same program!
The funny, sexy and dynamic Arthur developed such a close rapport with the participants (who were generally young and gorgeous) they could sometimes end up emotionally moved to tears. Incredible when all they were doing was choosing between two boxes. He got them dancing and revealing interesting life stories inbetween making their choice.
Even though I've always liked Noel Edmonds, his version was cold, mathematical and (yawn) boring in comparison!
@Shirley...We have French TV and hardly ever watch it, it's just so bad!The same goes for French radio. I didn't come to France to watch and listen to their media ; same goes for the majority of UK programming, but my missus would go mad if she didn't get to watch the execrable " Strictly ......" Ooooh that odious Brucie and the gaggle of effeminate dancers and camp judges! Ugh! BUT, I need my weekly fill up of MOTD , The 6 Nations , TMS , F1 GP etc etc when they come round...Really pleased tho' to be able to easily avoid Bojo's / Seb Coe's Londoncentric Olympics! >{;o))
Hi
We bought a cheap sky digibox from ebay uk (cost less than £60) and paid the localTV guy to put up a dish pointed at the correct satellite. This enables us to watch all free to air UK channels.
Our TV set (bought in France) has a build-in TNT decoder, so we can watch French TV (through an old-fashioned TV aerial) .... once you get into it some of the programmes are quite watchable (especially if you use the subtitles for the deaf - ok they're in french but we find that it helps to see the words as well as hearing them) plus several of the french channels broadcast the programmes in their orginal languages (as well as french).
Ian
It's cultural. French TV reflects French culture in the same way as does British, German etc.
It's interesting for example to watch Un Dîner Presque Parfait and compare it to Come Dine With Me.
On the French version it's about food, mostly. The British version has the food rather lower down the list and usually done with less flair, but the guests wander round the host's house and search their underwear drawers! I couldn't believe it the first time I saw that. Wisconsin Tourist Federation, if you see what I mean.
That's pretty much our set-up. Orange gets us internet, phone, and French TV over ADSL. We have a somewhat clunky switch box into which are connected the SCART leads from our little Nokia satellite decoder and our Livebox, so it's just a case of pushing a button to select the source.
Morning Viewers.
A couple of pointerettes.
French TV is Dire. Rear side viewing to be recommended. We too, subscribed to Canal Plus on arrival. From memory there were 4 basic programmes.
1. French News. All news about French things, in French, by the French.
2. La Météo. A programme about floods and drought
3. Some sort of Game show that seemed to be on 24/7
4. And always, but always, what we called the 'French being French' show. Which was some 'Über-titled' guy in a field proudly clutching the biggest 'marrow-sized' frick off courgette you have ever seen being interviewed. With him banging on about La Terre, le Soleil, Qualité de l'eau etc.
Sure, some 400 other Channels were available....Tele Maroc...Tunisa Today, and many other reports from other war-torn hot spots. We don't have TV anymore, for entertainment we simply gather round the PC, and wait for 'Catharine's Quirky Quips' always good for a ROFL.
Not wishing to dampen anyone's fireworks, but do be careful! IP masking in itself is not illegal..maybe even a sensible move for security reasons. However, if it transpires that a user is using such cloaking devices to infringe copyright, flaunt International Regulatory Guidelines, defraud a Broadcastsers or Service Providers, Licencing Bodies etc, this is more serious.
Heaven forbid! who wants an exemplary 10 year custodial sentence in the USA, watching re-runs of Baywatch before 'lights out' and cuddle time with your cell mate 'Big Bubba'. No, no, as much as none of us would give a toss about Rupert's bear coffers in the event of a collapsing Media Giant, the Leur is the Leur.
So assuming some of the 'dodgy suggestions' herein are merely observations, and not recommendations, then all well and good. But remember this Viewers that PC or TV, Big Brother is watching, at least if there's not a Storm on the go, in which case he won't see anything that doesn't look like a screen shot from 'Weather on the Piste Today'
You have been warned. Have a nice day...Lights out.
I can only find a Humax box at John Lewis for £200. Any other ideas would be welcome. As we need the internet too, I thought I'd get Orange's deal for 33 Euros a month with TV, phone, internet and free Europe calls and then switch to the Humax box for my "Sporting" fix. Does this sound like a plan? Can anyone see any flaws?
Just fyi that site is blocked by Spyware Doctor, my antispam, antivirus program. The link shows as pagesperso-orange.fr or crosschanneltvpagesperso-orange.fr which seems to suggest someone's hacked it.
Just to agree with Mark here....Gordon Ellis is one of the best for installing your TV etc. Very polite and efficient.He is conscientious,so recommend highly.
Regards
internet timidity is the tool of the subscription portals. there are so many free shield launchers, portal busters and so on available that paying seems a bad joke to me. go out looking yourselves, forget all of our reccos and get used to the electronic age. Perhaps having had silicon fen around me for all those years has made me less timid, but if I want I search and find.
Catharine, 'wälliser leckerbißchen' does the same for me - we should start an international welsh tart archive!
actually I am with you and wonder what and where some people are going to? In a generation no choice, via choice of two for years and now hundreds and people cannot be easily contented... naaa, does not figure, more their loss if they really must pay murdoch through the nose to see what they can see on free to view plus a lot of extra repeats. mind boggles at where people who leave the uk really are. as for band changes and sats, hardly expensive actually... compared to a couple of years of sky cheap actually. some people are born to moan about everything under the sun .... including too much of the latter????