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Right...Ive had enough.. Jan 28, 2008
Were can I go and buy sky tv or something that resembles a decent tv package??
there must be one.
I don't want uk nova etc.
I WANT MY GORDON RAMSEY FIX.
If I have to watch city7/Dubai one any longer I will throw that tv over the balcony. :twisted:

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Jan 28, 2008
Rant over! :oops:
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I have showtime and it has gordon ramsey
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scarlet wrote:I have showtime and it has gordon ramsey


SO you watch TV?? I thought u r always on your Harley roaming around Dubay..

and is Gordon Ramsay a TV series?
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scarlet wrote:I have showtime and it has gordon ramsey


yes...but its two years old. :cry:
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gezza wrote:I WANT MY GORDON RAMSEY FIX.
If I have to watch city7/Dubai one any longer I will throw that tv over the balcony. :twisted:


Damn..You learn quickly from ramsey minus the F words.... :wink:
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scarlet wrote:I have showtime and it has gordon ramsey


SO you watch TV?? I thought u r always on your Harley roaming around Dubay..

and is Gordon Ramsay a TV series?


When I'm not riding my Harley I like to watch cooking shows. particulary the hairy bikers http://www.hairybikers.com/
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scarlet wrote:
St.Lucifer wrote:
scarlet wrote:I have showtime and it has gordon ramsey


SO you watch TV?? I thought u r always on your Harley roaming around Dubay..

and is Gordon Ramsay a TV series?


When I'm not riding my Harley I like to watch cooking shows. particulary the hairy bikers http://www.hairybikers.com/


Damn! is that u on the pictures? The dude in red tshirt with spectacles?
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scarlet wrote:
St.Lucifer wrote:
scarlet wrote:I have showtime and it has gordon ramsey


SO you watch TV?? I thought u r always on your Harley roaming around Dubay..

and is Gordon Ramsay a TV series?


When I'm not riding my Harley I like to watch cooking shows. particulary the hairy bikers http://www.hairybikers.com/


ok when did ya start riding one:) damn a lot seems to have changed after i left:)
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Jan 28, 2008
3 things to improve your tv viewing.

1. tvtorrents.com
2. sopcast
3. Mr illegal dish

:-)
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^ian^ wrote:3 things to improve your tv viewing.

2. sopcast
3. Mr illegal dish

:-)


Im intrested Ian.

tell me more.
maybe 3 is my option?
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gezza wrote:I WANT MY GORDON RAMSEY FIX.
If I have to watch city7/Dubai one any longer I will throw that tv over the balcony. :twisted:


Damn..You learn quickly from ramsey minus the F words.... :wink:



F word or F club mate
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gezza wrote:
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gezza wrote:I WANT MY GORDON RAMSEY FIX.
If I have to watch city7/Dubai one any longer I will throw that tv over the balcony. :twisted:


Damn..You learn quickly from ramsey minus the F words.... :wink:



F word or F club mate


F word.... :lol:
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Jan 28, 2008
gezza

you can now watch any BBC progs for free using the new iplayer service

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/

other oprtions if you want a UK Sky package is via a "slingbox". Use the search function in the forum to read up on this. Concord uses it via the states, but you can hook up a slingbox to a Sky decoder box in the UK also. If you have family in the UK with

a/ a sky package

and

b/ a broadband connection

you can watch a fully sky service via your laptop. Basically if a friend or family member back in the UK would on your behalf have a "multi room package" installed at their house then you can receive a the same Sky package in Dubai.

(the multi room package costs £75 installation and an extra £10 month for the service, so for £200 year you can have SKY incl sports and movies for cheap.

Read up on it and if i can be of any more help let me know
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arniegang wrote:gezza

you can now watch any BBC progs for free using the new iplayer service

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/

other oprtions if you want a UK Sky package is via a "slingbox". Use the search function in the forum to read up on this. Concord uses it via the states, but you can hook up a slingbox to a Sky decoder box in the UK also. If you have family in the UK with

a/ a sky package

and

b/ a broadband connection

you can watch a fully sky service via your laptop. Basically if a friend or family member back in the UK would on your behalf have a "multi room package" installed at their house then you can receive a the same Sky package in Dubai.

(the multi room package costs £75 installation and an extra £10 month for the service, so for £200 year you can have SKY incl sports and movies for cheap.

Read up on it and if i can be of any more help let me know



So in this day and age I cant get sky over here...
It cant be true arnie...
:roll:
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Jan 28, 2008
no mate you can't get sky via a dish because no dish in the ME can focus on the european satellites. Its all to do with the position of them etc. Its not the technology its purely the position of the satellites in relation to the countries they serve.
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Jan 28, 2008
so how do hotels get sky news/skysports news etc?
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hotels only receive Sky news via Showtime/Orbit etc, no hotel has sky sports mate, take my word for it, we have stayed in most of them :lol:
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arniegang wrote:hotels only receive Sky news via Showtime/Orbit etc, no hotel has sky sports mate, take my word for it, we have stayed in most of them :lol:


When my dish points to the South... I get Sky Sport :-)

It's pointing at the wall at the moment though :-)
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Dr.D wrote:It's pointing at the wall at the moment though :-)


So..what do you get now.....spill it out.... :?
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arniegang wrote:hotels only receive Sky news via Showtime/Orbit etc, no hotel has sky sports mate, take my word for it, we have stayed in most of them :lol:


I have show time and orbit tho...so what am i missing?
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Jan 28, 2008
you receive Sky news because that particular channel is transmitted to the satellites that serve the ME and Far E. It is also a free to air channel from any satellite that transmits it.

You are not picking it up from the European Sats mate.
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Jan 28, 2008
so free to air is similar to free view?
can i get that via du/ satalite?
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I have european free channels... from hotbird ...not sure if thats euro sat..
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Hotbird does not transmit Sky, its the Astra Sats.

Geeza, you can only get the Brit channels that Du choose and supply with their packages like Sky News, BBC, Granada Plus, UKTV, Nat Geo, Discovery etc. This is because the operators like showtime/orbit etc purchase those channels from Sky or directly from the broadcasters.
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reviewer wrote:I have european free channels... from hotbird ...not sure if thats euro sat..


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Jan 28, 2008
The channels are transmitted on the bird, you just need the appropriate decryption to get them.

Du doesn't come into it.
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Jan 28, 2008
Yeah planning to have smart card + Vaccess..to decrypt some channels..
Need to ask some ppl in Deira about this.....

Gezz....no UK channels yet...just mainland Europe..will advise after consulting satellite techies in Deira.....
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reviewer wrote:Yeah planning to have smart card + Vaccess..to decrypt some channels..
Need to ask some ppl in Deira about this.....

Gezz....no UK channels yet...just mainland Europe..will advise after consulting satellite techies in Deira.....



Thank you 8)
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Jan 29, 2008
Hotbird does not relay any channels that we receive on the UK Sky System Geeza.
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