What's the best pay tv service available now (value, quality, reliability)?
I live in Pererenan, past Canggu, so I don't think we're on the fiber optic line that brings cable TV. Guess it has to be satellite.
What's on offer that's good? We don't watch sports or kids shows. Would like news news news, "educational" channels, cultural channels, films, and French and Italian tv.
Indovision offered me a ridiculously expensive package, with tons of stuff we don't want, and not much of what we do want. And it was about 300,000 a month.
Surely there's a better option?
I am on Indovision on the family package. Though there are a lot of childrens channels (which we want as we have a 3 year old) the other channels include
Vision Sports
Vison Drama
Vision Sports Extra
Celestial Movies
Dicovery
National Geographic
ANimal Planet
Dicovery Travel & Living
AFC
AXN ( shows House, all the CSI shows, Leverage, Beast )
Star World ( shows Freinds, Eli Stone, Boston Legal, 30 Rock,)
E Entertainment
Australia network
Fashion TV
Al JAzeera
CNBC Asia
BBC World
CNN
MNC (Music)
MTV
V (music)
KBS World
TBN
I pay Rp149,000 per month.
Once we got over some initial set up problems it has been perfect service and reliablity.
http://www.mimpimanis.com/
I think Indovision (via satellite) is the only option since Astro ceased. More information about their offerings is here
http://www.indovision.tv/
Indovision for me. I have the full paclkage including films and sports. Not great sports unless you like football
Regards Jimbo
yep, same here. Like Jimbo.. got the full package from Indovision.
Have seen some add in a paper about some ''free- satelite TV" (yeah right :lol: ), don;t know if that's Astro that ronb mentioned? but it said they had some other european language channels.
don't read between the lines..i think the words are clear enough...:)
In Lombok previously we had a deal where we paid a one off fee for a satellite dish. One of the massive ones and we received about 200 channels. No monthly fee. It included ABC Asia Pacific and BBC World but other than that the rest of the channels were mostly Indonesian, Chinese, Indian and arabic..... when the receiver blew out in a power surge we never bothered getting it repaired.
http://www.mimpimanis.com/
Satellite TV is where you have a big dish and pick up free transmissions. Many locals have a fixed dish that picks up the Indo channels. But if you can move the dish you can point at different satellites and pick up all sorts. Many Chinese channels, Japanese, Middle East, Europe, South African, etc. We have it and use it mainly for the Indo channels so someone can watch these channels at the same time that Indovision is on something else.Originally Posted by gilbert de jong
Astro is Malaysian pay TV operator that offered service in Indonesia for a while but ceased last October. I got the impression that they were hounded out by bureaucracy.
i have telkomvision, its 220,000 a month.
i get all the news channells i want - cnn, bbc, abc, fox, news asia (singapore based), and a few other nationalities including indo. Also have movie channells,sports, nat geo, discovery, travel and living...all in all id say pretty similar to indovision which ive had before, but without the hassles.
also have the arrivals/departures screens from bali international and domestic airports including the funky gamelan music you always hear when arriving depating!its pretty handy.
When you say fibre optic, are you referring to co-ax?
Telkomvision comes in on a co-ax cable, so never have probs with poor reception or dish getting blown around, trees growing in front of it, neighbours building etc. Also, it doesnt use a decoder, so never have to reset it or waste time on the indovision hotline which is $#@ useless.
also, by using a amplified splitter, i have 2 tvs in my villa, each with their own channell changer which work independently of each other.
i'll never go back to indovision.
Originally Posted by hinakos
Hi,
Iam living in the Netherlands, on the telkomvision site they also say that "BVN" is included in the package. It's is a dutch/belgium channel. Did you saw it on your channellist?
thanks,
Hugo
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yep theres a Dutch channell, but dont know what its called