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[hanguker]

I was wondering which would be best. Does anyone have any personal experience?

I'm looking for lots of American shows (with Korean subs), English movies (w/subs i.e. OCN), travel/nature documentaries (i.e. Discovery, BBC)), N.American News. I also want some Hi-def (HDB 720p/1080i) broadcasting.

HanaTV
http://www.hanatv.co.kr/index.asp

Skylife
http://www.skylife.co.kr/eng/index.jsp

Thanks for any recommendations.

[hanguker]

meh, I'll just keep downloading my shows I guess.

[itaewonguy]

[matthews_world]

I just subscribed to CJ's Hello D digital cable. Bill for deluxe service runs around 30,000 per month. Installation fee including the box is 64,000 and the plan is cheaper than Skylife.

I also do Sopcast and TVU but enjoy getting the various English and Korean news channels, Korean entertainment channels, etc.

[pkang0202]

#1, Make sure your building can GET HanaTV or Digital Cable.

#2. Skylife equipment fees are insane.

[eamo]

Skylife only becomes a good deal when you sign a 3 year contract. You can pay off the cost of the set-top box (which has a HDD video recorder) and the dish by a little each month. After 3 years the box and dish is yours.

[write of weigh]

Currently have skylife. I pay about 22,000 Won per month, and i cant remember what the installation fees were.

English Channels I get...
CNN
BBC News
BBC Entertianment
AXN -
Discovery
MGM (movie Channel)
OCN (movie Channels)
On Style
Some Sports Channels (Mostly soccer and baseball)
MBC (some english movies)
XTM (some english movies)

Disadvantages: The TV guide is all in Korean, so kinda difficult to tell what will be on. Moreover, sometimes they change the English title of a movie to another Korean version name.

Some of the Channels play the same sh** over and over, like OnStyle. They are still playing the Friends sitcom and Sex and the City constantly.

Wish I could get some American Football, or just more variety.

[hanguker]

Thanks for the input

[mrsquirrel]

www.tv2000.co.kr

They do a digital package. Would cost be 56k a month for a 10M internet and 109 channels.

I might get it next year so I can watch BBC if I stay at this place.

Something stupid on monthly rental of the set-top box though - about 12k a month but inc in the price.

[hanguker]

mrsquirrel, that link is dead.

[mrsquirrel]

That is because I am a knob and posted the wrong link

www.tv2000.co.kr

[bellum99]

I hated Skylife. Every little while they would shuffle the channels around and take some out without telling me. Poof...my favorite channel was gone. I don't mean it had a new channel number...I mean it was gone. They promised the channels when I started the service and then slowly they took the good ones out and make others additional payment options.
I think Skylife failed and the government doesn't want to say to the public because when you look around there are not many dishes on apartments. They spent huge money to start the service but no one likes it. Almost everyone quits after they finish the 3 year agreement.

[matthews_world]

Is it possible to find splitters for a TV and run digital cable, satellite and say a Slingbox all at one time?

Does anyone do that?

Of course it'd be cool to have a universal remote adapted for all of those.

[conor]