Do you miss TV from home?
Aug 6th 2013, 10:39 am
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Do you miss TV from home?
So, its in the title really.
Do you miss UK (or whatever country from which you hail) TV? I know when I was in Chile last year I got a hankering for Coronation St !! but couldn't connect to ITV player because I was outside of the home country.
I found a way around it though ;-)
But what do you guys do in Malaysia?
Do you miss UK (or whatever country from which you hail) TV? I know when I was in Chile last year I got a hankering for Coronation St !! but couldn't connect to ITV player because I was outside of the home country.
I found a way around it though ;-)
But what do you guys do in Malaysia?
Aug 6th 2013, 11:08 am
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Re: Do you miss TV from home?
We subscribe to Astro.
For everything else we use the same methods you are alluding to in your post..
For everything else we use the same methods you are alluding to in your post..
Aug 6th 2013, 11:16 am
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Re: Do you miss TV from home?
Alluding :-)
Aug 6th 2013, 1:56 pm
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Re: Do you miss TV from home?
In a word..... No. We don't watch much TV....just some news and some sports. It's enough.
Aug 6th 2013, 2:33 pm
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Re: Do you miss TV from home?
I knew I'd miss British telly. But thank goodness for BBC iPlayer! Have been able to keep up with QI, Top Gear, Would I Lie to You, Luther, Wimbledon, and can't wait for the new Sherlock series!
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Aug 6th 2013, 3:48 pm
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Re: Do you miss TV from home?
Those are the programmes I'm glad to get away from.
Aug 6th 2013, 3:53 pm
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Re: Do you miss TV from home?
Yes.....Top Gear? Oh dear, Abdul 
Aug 6th 2013, 9:36 pm
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Re: Do you miss TV from home?
Its the Wimbledon I wouldnt miss, Even here in the UK I dont have a TV licence. I got sick of TV really and for £140 a year, its not worth it. If I want to catch up with anything its the Iplayers and my laptop :-)
Aug 6th 2013, 11:20 pm
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Re: Do you miss TV from home?
No offence to the USA but I do get a bit sick of the non-stop American TV on offer here. (It was the same in Singapore).
However, despite the fact that I don't watch much on Astro, I never seem to get round to watching stuff on iPlayer etc too - only occasionally. (Just finished The Apprentice recently. I know it's rubbish - but my hubby and I both love it!)
However, despite the fact that I don't watch much on Astro, I never seem to get round to watching stuff on iPlayer etc too - only occasionally. (Just finished The Apprentice recently. I know it's rubbish - but my hubby and I both love it!)
Aug 7th 2013, 1:25 pm
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Re: Do you miss TV from home?
Alluding 
have to tolerate quite a bit of buffering presently tho ;current abode has only 1mb download speed .
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have to tolerate quite a bit of buffering presently tho ;current abode has only 1mb download speed .
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Aug 7th 2013, 1:28 pm
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Re: Do you miss TV from home?
would never subscribe to Astro .
People seriously have to pay for that stuff?
People seriously have to pay for that stuff?
Aug 7th 2013, 1:30 pm
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Aug 7th 2013, 2:46 pm
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Re: Do you miss TV from home?
I have wifi to my PC and the missus uses the same Star Hub Hubstation for her laptop and the TV has youtube through wifi etc.
Anyway I can watch internet TV on my PC the missus can watch internet TV on her laptop and we can have a youtube running on the TV all at the SAME time just with the 1MB/sec.
No buffering either.
The strange thing is no one in UK believes me when I tell them this, even though using Speedtest I can post my download speed, which ahchewlee is 1.07Mb/sec.
