Legal TV options in Spain
Mar 29th 2013, 2:47 am
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Re: Legal TV options in Spain
You can download films and TV series quite legally from the Internet.
I watched Skyfall the day it was released from iTunes. It cost £4.50 for a 48 hour rental. Perfect, full HD quality equivalent to a BluRay DVD. It was the same for Argo.
Most of the pirate copies are rubbish. I was given a pirate copy of Skyfall a couple of weeks earlier and it was unwatchable.
I can't wait for Lincoln and Les Mis when they come out.
I watched Skyfall the day it was released from iTunes. It cost £4.50 for a 48 hour rental. Perfect, full HD quality equivalent to a BluRay DVD. It was the same for Argo.
Most of the pirate copies are rubbish. I was given a pirate copy of Skyfall a couple of weeks earlier and it was unwatchable.
I can't wait for Lincoln and Les Mis when they come out.
Like you I was brought up to pay my way for everything, this greedy "gimme gimme" and "its on the internet so it has to be free" attitude shows how some (or is it many ) people have become full of avarice in everything they do.
If a company makes a pricing mistake, fine, take advantage whilst the opportunity is there, but to actually spend all day every day trying to find ways around the blocks put on you.....
rgds
Mar 29th 2013, 2:51 am
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Re: Legal TV options in Spain
considering NP was living with Siobhan Redmond at the time...............
Think he does alot of the small local theatres with plays, thats where you will find alot those who were in series at that time
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Mar 29th 2013, 3:00 am
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Re: Legal TV options in Spain
Ok so I've struggled through the thread about illegal rebroadcasters of UK TV getting shut down but can't see any suggestions about what people might do instead.
We currently have Canal+ We've had it over 5 years and its been excellent but it now costs around 70 euros per month and they have started shutting done some of the channels we like (Discovery for example)
We haven't missed UK TV at all, most of the best programmes seem to get picked up by Canal + anyway and we can watch them in english. We enjoy some programmes in spanish but wouldn't want all spanish TV.
So my question is - Are there any cheaper (legal) options out there? Could we keep using our Canal+ dish if we bought some kind of box or would we need a new ariel?
We currently have Canal+ We've had it over 5 years and its been excellent but it now costs around 70 euros per month and they have started shutting done some of the channels we like (Discovery for example)
We haven't missed UK TV at all, most of the best programmes seem to get picked up by Canal + anyway and we can watch them in english. We enjoy some programmes in spanish but wouldn't want all spanish TV.
So my question is - Are there any cheaper (legal) options out there? Could we keep using our Canal+ dish if we bought some kind of box or would we need a new ariel?
We use the normal free Spanish TV with a good aerial, the remote has a language button where many of the dubbed English speaking programmes inc discovery are broadcast in the original language.
Many of the Spanish news programmes have the dialogue written underneath, I find that helps with learning Spanish.
Mar 29th 2013, 3:03 am
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Re: Legal TV options in Spain
Mar 29th 2013, 3:12 am
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Talking of adverts, I think the Spanish are behind in how they are advertised to by the big corporates, not as sophisticated way of advertising that we get, maybe we have become more immune to it all over the years, harder to get through to. Lots of washing powder and keeping clean ads, expensive face creams and perfumes ads. My washing is whiter than yours and I smell better.
Mar 29th 2013, 3:19 am
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Re: Legal TV options in Spain
The advert breaks are very long, we have limits in the UK on how long they can be, at least mostly they warn you how long they will be so you can turn over or make a cup of tea or whatever.
Talking of adverts, I think the Spanish are behind in how they are advertised to by the big corporates, not as sophisticated way of advertising that we get, maybe we have become more immune to it all over the years, harder to get through to. Lots of washing powder and keeping clean ads, expensive face creams and perfumes ads. My washing is whiter than yours and I smell better.
Talking of adverts, I think the Spanish are behind in how they are advertised to by the big corporates, not as sophisticated way of advertising that we get, maybe we have become more immune to it all over the years, harder to get through to. Lots of washing powder and keeping clean ads, expensive face creams and perfumes ads. My washing is whiter than yours and I smell better.
You can get used to it and almost be ready to go and make the tea and a sandwich before it comes back.
However, it must be done by a timer as they will cut off in mid-sentence and when it comes back you have forgotten what they were talking about.
As to the adverts, it is the way they have dubbed the original soundtrack but then at the end you get the company mantra in English.
Chrysler ad comes to mind at the minute.
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Mar 29th 2013, 5:04 am
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Re: Legal TV options in Spain
I think you will find that the Spanish advertising is really no longer than it is in the UK, just it is in 2 x 7min segments instead of 4 x 4 min segments.
You can get used to it and almost be ready to go and make the tea and a sandwich before it comes back.
However, it must be done by a timer as they will cut off in mid-sentence and when it comes back you have forgotten what they were talking about.
As to the adverts, it is the way they have dubbed the original soundtrack but then at the end you get the company mantra in English.
Chrysler ad comes to mind at the minute.
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You can get used to it and almost be ready to go and make the tea and a sandwich before it comes back.
However, it must be done by a timer as they will cut off in mid-sentence and when it comes back you have forgotten what they were talking about.
As to the adverts, it is the way they have dubbed the original soundtrack but then at the end you get the company mantra in English.
Chrysler ad comes to mind at the minute.
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Mar 29th 2013, 5:08 am
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Re: Legal TV options in Spain
The advert breaks are very long, we have limits in the UK on how long they can be, at least mostly they warn you how long they will be so you can turn over or make a cup of tea or whatever.
Talking of adverts, I think the Spanish are behind in how they are advertised to by the big corporates, not as sophisticated way of advertising that we get, maybe we have become more immune to it all over the years, harder to get through to. Lots of washing powder and keeping clean ads, expensive face creams and perfumes ads. My washing is whiter than yours and I smell better.
Talking of adverts, I think the Spanish are behind in how they are advertised to by the big corporates, not as sophisticated way of advertising that we get, maybe we have become more immune to it all over the years, harder to get through to. Lots of washing powder and keeping clean ads, expensive face creams and perfumes ads. My washing is whiter than yours and I smell better.
Mar 29th 2013, 5:11 am
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Re: Legal TV options in Spain
No Kerry Katona promoting mega interest loans,or Iceland adverts, do the Spanish know what they are missing !!!!
Mar 29th 2013, 5:16 am
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Ah yes - especially Nitro! I think the ad breaks are sync'ed with Antena 3 so sometimes they cut off in the middle of a word!But at least they tell you in advance how long the break is going to be so you know if you've got time to have a quick shower or walk the dog.
And on the state-owned channels TVE1 and TVE2 there are no ads at all.
Mar 29th 2013, 5:30 am
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Bimbo "Blaaahh " just as bad as the deep frozen UK sliced that some expats can,t seem to live without !!
Mar 29th 2013, 8:08 am
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Anyone watch Cómetelo the cooking programme with the magic rubbish bin the over the top hand washing and strategically placed product placements. The food looks tasty though.
