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[astral]

samtam, on 2012-03-27 14:47:05, said:

I find myself watching TV less and less, including  the news and financial channels, and have been considering cancelling the whole caboodle, so we are perhaps moving one step closer to that.

I have to agree with that
I only watch news channels, in the early morning and lunchtime
The rest of my viewing is from torrents on a hard disk.

[pattayadingo]

astral, on 2012-03-27 20:04:12, said:

samtam, on 2012-03-27 14:47:05, said:

I find myself watching TV less and less, including  the news and financial channels, and have been considering cancelling the whole caboodle, so we are perhaps moving one step closer to that.

I have to agree with that
I only watch news channels, in the early morning and lunchtime
The rest of my viewing is from torrents on a hard disk.

Add to that the sport on a weekend and I do not watch the rest.
Torrents for me and they are so easy to watch using a USB stick on my DVD player. Now I download, copy and watch. No burning nowadays.

[samtam]

astral, on 2012-03-27 20:04:12, said:

samtam, on 2012-03-27 14:47:05, said:

I find myself watching TV less and less, including  the news and financial channels, and have been considering cancelling the whole caboodle, so we are perhaps moving one step closer to that.

I have to agree with that
I only watch news channels, in the early morning and lunchtime
The rest of my viewing is from torrents on a hard disk.

Same. I need to move on to the USB into my DVD player, to eliminate the DVD burning.

[overherebc]

Told today I will get the new box next week-ish. I have also been told that my Infrasender box will no longer work with the new box which would mean I have to go back to the TV room to change the channel I'm watching in the second room.
Anyone got any news or experience of this ?

[BlackJack]

can someone tell me what box i have
its an ALLSAT 2009a - says HD digital cable receiver

my question is do i plug a satellite dish into it or the RF from the wall

I live in Jomtien and our condo has Jomtien cable - I thought if i plugged the RF into this box i could get the channels and maybe more - but it scans and then produces nothing

It also has a Lan cable and when i connect this it has an IP address - but wont connect or download or nothing.

I looked at the manual and it just says plug it into the wall socket - referring to the RF

anyideas please

[nellyp]

Just for general info. When I started reading this thread months ago, people were worried that they could only have true on one TV due to the one output. This is not true as I know that it is possible to watch 2 TVs through the box. As for splitting the HD into 2 TV's? That I haven't had a go at yet because I can't find a splitter any where near me yet. My misses said that the guy who installed our box told her that part of the reason for the box exchange (even if not wanted) was to stop people splitting the signal to another TV. This is my 4th month on HD, but though I love HD I will not be paying for the couple of channels I receive through satellite. I will miss the HD football, but being a Liverpool fan it will just mean me seeing rubbish results not so clearly

[PattayaParent]

I'm still waiting for them to deliver the box they told me would arrive on the morning of 24 October.

Maybe they meant 2012??

[jaapk]

Well, I got my boxes last week.
What a disappointment. Many years ago I started to use Dreambox. Just the idea that it can be customized is for me a big plus. When I moved to Thailand 2 years ago I got not get the True Vision card working, but after searching the Internet I discovered a post which suggested to add some extra lines in the cfg file. After that I could use the card.

Anyway, now I am stuck worth the HD box of Truevision. Only 20 favorites and you have to scroll through the whole list.

I will see how it goes, because I do not see anyone getting the new card to work in the Dreambox anytime soon. Another option would be to aim my dish to another satellite and say goodbye to True.

[tx22cb]

overherebc, on 2012-03-30 10:14:37, said:

Told today I will get the new box next week-ish. I have also been told that my Infrasender box will no longer work with the new box which would mean I have to go back to the TV room to change the channel I'm watching in the second room.
Anyone got any news or experience of this ?

It is possible to run a "slave" 2nd TV (where one can change the channel from the 2nd room), but it depends on the Technician.
Got new HD boxes installed at 2 residences.
1st residence - Technician said that the old room extension to 2nd "slave" TV in another room is not possible, and lobbied to install 2nd HD box for 500 Bht/month, to which I reluctantly agreed
2nd residence (a few weeks later) - (different) Technician happy to install, unofficially, lines & small box to 2nd "slave" TV for once-off fee - both TVs display the same channel, but channel can be changed from either room

[2unique]

overherebc, on 2012-03-30 10:14:37, said:

Told today I will get the new box next week-ish. I have also been told that my Infrasender box will no longer work with the new box which would mean I have to go back to the TV room to change the channel I'm watching in the second room.
Anyone got any news or experience of this ?

my old set up still works but had to buy a 2nd remote..

[Pib]

A few days ago we got a call from TrueVisions saying they needed to upgrade our two standard cable boxes to HD boxes.  Today they showed up and replaced our boxes with the HD boxes.  We get one month free HD viewing before we would have to start paying to continue seeing the HD channels.

I wanted to know what that magic date was when the old boxes (the boxes I had were issued Jun 11 when we switched from DSTV to CATV) would stop working supposedly due to TrueVisions switching off the older encryption and only transmitting on the newer encryption.   Although the two techs spoke little English and my Thai wife understands little technology-wise we did appear to reach a clear communications link.  The techs said the old date was Oct 12 but the new date is now Feb 13.   And IMHO that Feb 13 date will probably slip further.

[Pib]

Here’s somethng that may be of interest to some of you on "cable" TrueVisions service. Saturday night when doing some googling I came across an English language listing of current True promotions for 1 Apr 12 onwards. And on page 38 there was a cable TrueVisions HD promotion for folks on the Platinum and Gold packages.  I'm on the Platinum package and when the dust settles each month I pay 2,592.78 which includes all taxes/fees for two settop boxes…my current monthly bill matched the promotion info to the stang.  

Basically, the promotion says for folks on the Platinum package there is no additional monthly charge (no monthly package fee or equipment rental fee) for a 3rd outlet point/box, a B2,000 box deposit fee (you get that back when you turn in the box) and no installation fee was listed...total monthly cost for 3 boxes would be B2,592.78 (just like the total cost for 2 boxes).  And if a person wants a 4th outlet/box then there was a 50% monthly package/equipment rental fee reduction and the total cost per month for 4 boxes would be B2,811.60.   Kinda like only paying for 2.5 boxes but having 4 boxes.  For folks on the Gold package the 3d box is not free but it is at half price and so is the 4th box.   See the attachment below for the promotion/exact pricing by package/number of oulets/boxes...and this particular promotion says it's for 1 Mar 12 onwards so it's been around almost two months now (maybe longer).

The Thai wife and I swung by the True Service Center in Pinklao (Bangkok) on Sunday and they confirmed above info and gave us a brochure in Thai which restated the same thing. The Thai wife did her best to confirm with the True Customer Service Rep that there were no hidden charges and the rep said no hidden charges…the rep even rung-up the True Call Center for the wife to ask the same questions about the 3d outlet/box promotion.  The Call Center did say there would be an installation charge of B25 per meter for any cable use over 20 meters.  So, during that call the wife said we wanted the 3d outlet/box and the Call Center said a guy would call her back to schedule an install date.  By mid day Monday there was no call so the wife called the Call Center and setup an install date for Thursday morning.  TrueVisions technicians did arrive this Thursday morning with an HD box, the setup didn’t require any additional cable just a power splitter since I already had cable running to the room, we only paid the B2000 deposit fee, and we now have a 3d HD outlet & box.

I figure if I can have 3 HD boxes for the same monthly price as 2 HD boxes then I'll go for it…now another bedroom is outfitted with TrueVisions.   And as mentioned in my above post, although we are getting HD channels free for month with the swap-out of our non-HD digital boxes I don't plan to sign-up for monthly HD service which is some where in the ballpark of B490/month but varies a little based on package...not enough HD channels yet which interest me.   I will also have to say I get a better standard definition (SD) picture with these HD boxes than I got with my TrueVisions digital SD boxes which were only 11 months old.   Very clear & sharp SD channels ..and of course the dozen or so HD channels on cable are super-duper clear and sharp.

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