Go Shirley go! Chacun a son gout....
And you get to watch Life of Brian dubbed into French. Even funnier than the original if that is possible. My favourite line -when his mother calls the girl a 'Welsh tart' - translated as 'un gateau du pays du gallois'
Superb!
Totally agree with you, Jane, and think it may help lots of people to speak French faster and better ... after all, you ARE living in France, dear people.
And learn to speak French even faster and better!
Ha! I'm repeating myself. Must be getting old and demented ... finally (but do speak French fluently).
Hello
It is possible to watch the best of British TV on the internet for next to nothing. You can choose the programmes you want to watch, watch them when you want to watch them, pausing them mid programme for a coffee break.
You do need full broadband unlimited internet connection however .Can't be done via a satellite internet connection for example that applies maximum limits to your download volume.
Websites such as BBC iplayer, ITV player and Channel 4 won't allow you to connect from outside the UK normally. So you have to sign up with somone like iPortal to mask your IP address. This costs 5€/month.
http://www.frenchentree.com/france-satellite-tv-internet-pcs-telecoms/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=7432
Try the above link...Also, if you have an iphone you can download an App called >> Tunein Radio << it will give you 20000+ radio stations around the world including all the UK national, commercial & locals. The App cost 2 euro when I bought it. After that no further charge!
thanks shirley! I am not, not, not a technician and yes i got somebody with equipment to line up our dishes and install them in the right places to begin with. the rest i do, installing connection boxes and cables is child's play easy. etc, humax, yep that's what we have for uk tv too. perfectly good. expensive sky deals... for what? are all going mad or what? for our under 400 euros we have some hundreds of channels! if we cannot find something to watch, then give up, what is the point? slight deviation but to make the original point contextual - when my father left the army in late 1955 one of the first purchases we had was a tv. bbc had children's and women's progs about lunchtime then off. some kids progs later, off again. on for what you got at 1800 until 2200 or there abouts and fini. ATV started about then but with less hours and so on. you got what you got and were so very, very happy... now with choices beyond what was imaginable even a decade ago I read discontent in here! errrrr, sow the seeds and the weeds thrive as I see it. lighten up people and accept that to move to another country involves inconvenience if you wish to take the old one with you...
Hi Gillian,
You must be the closest SFN-sters to us, we live in Cap D'Agde. It seems there is plenty of helpful advice regarding TV, so I won't complicate issues, but in the interim you are more than welcome to come over for meal and an evening's viewing, any time.
It could be that we may be able to help out with info regarding where to go for this and that.
Welcome to the area.
Regards
Ron and Michelle Birks
Hi Gillian. I think it's up to each individual or family to decide what they want, and what the budget will bear. For example, for us it was a case of "must have rugby" so we decided to bite the bullet and continue to pay our Sky subscription, which also means if we want to we can watch Irish TV, etc. It does mean the only French TV we have is TV5 Europe, but we watch it every day and it does help improve our language skills. We are now considering getting a package that will offer us all the French channels.
We thought at first we might feel a bit isolated and I bought an external hard drive + media player and copied over loads of movies and series. I'm happy to say that we are integrating quite well, and said hard drive has never been used!
You've got lots of good advice here - just decide what it is you want. Everyone is different.
I don't think we went that far off topic, someone questioned if there was really a need for UK TV when living abroad and some of us responded as to why we stick with it. That's what makes SFN so interesting, we can throw things in the mix but folks don't get aggressive about it, it's just peoples opinions, very dinner party conversation as I believe James and Catharine once summed it up.
I'm not your typical ex-pat, I consider myself an immigrant as I left the UK aged 23 and 23 years later, despite being almost fluent in French with 2 totally bi-lingual kids I still rate UK TV over French TV but I am not a connoisseur. My main use of the Sky box, bought of the peg in the UK with a satellite dish installed locally, is to listen to Gold radio. My friend recently bought an internet radio - a brilliant piece of equipment that enables her to listen to radio all over the world and that is my next must have - problem is the kids still want CBeebies!
PS This was in reply to Phil, it just jumped a bit, Finn was right when he commented about the way the comments jump round a b it too much.
sky encode their progs..for uk... so no pay, no play..
they won't let you watch from outside uk..[officially] hence we're all told never to connect the phone line
there are companies who can provide a [special]sky service.. they have ways round the uk address issuses
all main uk chanels are available fta on sat.. dump the skybox.. buy humax or local digisat box et voila!
it costs mega bucks to make and beam progs.. maybe it's only fair they get something for their efforts??
and the beeb are tied by regs..
personally..i'm grateful that i can watch all my fav progs.. and leave Eastenders to t.o.h.. i come from the Eastend.. and it's a bloody insult to all of us!!!
happy viewing!!
http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/outside_the_uk/download_uk
right guys, but it is also a total 'dodgers' market. we have a box for uk channels but linked the two different dish connector boxes and use that for far more. the french box does not 'bend' at all. the third, hd signal jobbie on 28.2e gets us hundreds of channels and with cables interconnected probably it is bigger than it might otherwise be, because of how they have subscription/permission to access in switzerland get none for my OH and never will get her regional one (ticino) even if we wanted to pay! but heck, the kids can watch digimon on japanese channels or live us league american football from states where they still do not put it on special channels. it cost me under 200€ to have all of that however it seems that there people who clearly want everything free....
andrew and terry - we have three receivers and two dishes so that my wife gets italian and I get german viewing - not sure how many arab language stations there are but I did much the same before we moved here. you 2 both right in each his own way but it is a bigger world and past the dish and receiver a lot of pleasure to be had out there. believe me, there is a tad more beyond the choice of corrie or enders
I never cease to be surprised at how some of the posters on SFN get so far off topic!
Anyway yes you can receive free-to-air TV in France, and the comments made by other posters on Freesat boxes (Humax, Samsung etc) are spot on.
You can currently receive British channels from the Astra satellites on 28.2E (check the dishpointer site a previous poster mentioned for alignment details, elevation, LNB skew etc)
Also note that many of the British free-to-air channels will move to the new Astra 1N satellite which has a 'spot beam' focused on the UK. This makes it much more difficult to receive the signals in Central or Southern Europe. Many of the UK channels are not yet on 1N but will be switching over in the near future.
I know of people through other forums I participate in who have an Astra 1N signal in Central or Mid West France, but the further south you get, the weaker the signal and the larger the dish is required.
There is a picture of the spot beam coverage here if you're interested in what I'm babbling on about, and a good write up.
We have a Humax box too, it is brilliant.
The postcode is only required for telling the box which local programmes you want, and can be changed after set up anyway, there is no post to that address or registration.
french tv is ok for news and weather otherwise their programmes are poor "Sky in France" is good if you new box they will do every thing over the telephone and post the box to you .......took 36 hrs for us to get ours......then you have all the free channels.......
The easiest and cheapest way is to buy a FREESAT box in the UK (I paid about 50 pounds) - from Currys etc, and a dish (90cm) from Castorama. Don't make the mistake of getting a FREEVIEW box!!) If you are not up to installing it yourself, the local TV man will manage it OK. No fees to pay and all the UK channels.
I bought a satellite and digibox in France and got the shop I bought it from to put it with Astra 2 and have all the UK programmes free. However, I find that there isn't much to watch anyway. I usually watch films on French TV as they are at a decent hour, all the films on UK TV are so late especially as we are an hour behind.
Yes there is catch-up on French TV. This seems to be the link to M6 http://www.m6replay.fr/#/choisir-par-genre and this is TF1 http://videos.tf1.fr/
daily mail? you are going straight to hell!!! LOL best place for celeb gossip!