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Hi, My fiancée and I are getting close to our move to the states and she starting thinking about being able to watch/stream Chinese TV while we’re in the states. From what I gather, all the websites are geolocked. Does anyone have any experience with this? Are there any good vpns with servers in China or things of that nature? Thanks!!
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Anybody else here using TV Pad?
True Blue posted a topic in Communications, Planes, Shipping & Money
TV pad (a device a little like Apple tv is now blocked by US government and piracy laws. Before we could get 200+ channels from China and Hong Kong and Taiwan for free. They were sued and a cease and desist order was put in to interupt service in mid November. What do you use now to get programs from the motherland? TB -
Thinking of cancelling "Great Wall Package" at Dish Network and getting italkbb tv. We already have italkbb VOIP service and Lily says the TV will be much cheaper than Dish which I am currently paying 22.99 per month for. I can't figure the price on italk's website, so does anyone else have it? If so, about what is the price per month? Also, if you have it, how do you like it? Thanks, Hank
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Well the wife just updated her QQ to QQ2013 Worked great for a day then all the blote ware came into play. My main server/system was full of spam and crap. Took me almost three hours to clean out the shit that came with the new QQ2013 Come to find out that QQ2012 is no longer supported and you must upgrade to QQ2013. It appears my wife was using QQ to watch Chinese TV with the QQ2012 She had no problems then but now with the new QQ, No dice. tons of spam! As with most of our wife's they like to watch there Chinese TV. I guess my question is, Does anyone know of a good web site to stream Chinese TV with out all the crap and spam? If we keep going down the road were going down now the wife will have my company computer in the trash. I can not have my business computer crash. I/We need (more the wife than me) Chinese TV on the internet. Mike
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My wife uses several free IPAD apps to watch Chinese TV and movies on her IPAD. We have the IPAD to TV cable from the Apple store but it is apparently a hassle for her to hook up as she likes to flip channels and hooking the IPAD to the TV requires that she get up out of her chair every time she wants to change channels. (like we all did before the invention of the remote control). Seems a shame that my wife spends much of her time huddled on a chair in the kitchen watching Chinese TV and movies in her IPAD when she could watch them in the living room on a comfy chair on a large screen TV. Our cable only has 2 Chinese channels and they cost $35 a month with some package and my wife can get lots of Chinese, Taiwanese and Hond Kong TV channels free on the IPAD. Apple makes a product called APPLE TV. It sells for $99. We had heard that it can stream "most things" on an IPAD or IPHONE to a relatively new TV. Our TV is a year old and comes with all the bells and whistles for smart TV although no 3D (which is OK since there isn;'t much 3D content out there and we saved $300 from the same TV with 3D). The guys at the local Apple store could not tell us much - other than APPLE TV works great with LED TV's, with some LCD and plasma TVs but generally does not work and you will have lots of trouble with tube and rear projection TVs. As for what content you can stream, they said Youtube and Netflicks (which I can already get with my smart TV without the Apple TV box) and APPLE TV "should but not always" work with many other apps". I asked if we could try one of the Chinese TV apps in the Apple store but they were unable to get it to work. They were also unable to get Youtube to work (which even other customers at the Apple store said works great for them at home). Even after they got several of the kids from the "genius bar" they had problems but the "head genius" (he looked to be about 20 while the other kids looked high school age - hahaha!) blamed it on the mall's internet feed. I don't know. But that was enough of a red flag that I decided to tell them I want to do more research. Hence my question to all here. Anyway, does anyone out there have APPLE TV? Do you like it? Have you tried it with Chinese apps? Does it work streaming sound and picture to your TV? I do recommmend the IPAD to TV cable with these reservations - the connection always needs to be wiggled to get it to lock in, it is a short cable so if you have anything larger than a 20 inch tv you will be sitting far enough from your tv that you will likely be getting out of your chair anytime you want to change the volume, mute it or change a channel. But it does bring in high def continent to your TV based on whatever movie or TV IPAD apps that you have. I am not sure if using the IPAD to TV cable would work with streaming content from TV apps on an IPHONE, but it is the same connector so I think it might. Thanks for any responses. TB
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Yuan found this site thru QQ http://find.qire123.com/vod-search-kw-%E8%80%81%E5%8F%8B%E8%AE%B0.html It has a lot of tv shows and movies that have English and Chinese or at least Chinese subtitles on them. The friends show allows the speed of the text to be slowed down in 10 percent increments. Yuan is watching this to help hew with her American slang. Plus we can plug the computer to the tv and I do not have to explain everything that is happening in the movie. -
Has anybody tried the Italk tv . Supposed to be 40ish channels @ $4.00 a month. They sent us one but all the directions are in mandarin and something got lost in the translation
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I am trying to cancel my service with ITalkBB but they are playing game. First they said the English support is not available and if I want Mandarin or Cantonese. I said Cantonese. Then they transferred me to this person speaking Cantonese. I told him I want to cancel. Then he said the cancelation support is not available and they will call me back. I have been waiting for a while now. I tried to cancel a few months ago and they said the same thing. I think I will just call my credit card company and stop my monthly payment. This really suck. -
Just got one. Pay $200 one time fee and can watch 64 oversea stations (China and HK). Must have hi speed internet service and HDMI input to HDTV. No buffering while watching live TV. Great picture. I got mine at a local Chinese Electronic store in Boston area. This device is real good for your Chinese gal.
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Back in 2007 I cold turkey stopped watching TV. Gave back my cable box and suffered for 2 weeks with chills, throwin' up, and the shakes as I got a lifetime of TV addiction and it's withdrawl out of my system. Well, when we moved into the new house we got flooded with Direct TV offers from the electric company, phone company, and everyone else who found out we were moving....sniff...sniff Boyz n' girlz....I fell off the wagon and let them put a dish up outside. I came home the second day we had TV and asked the dynamic duo, who had never turned the thang on, "Do we even need this crap?" The answer from both of them was a resounding "NO, unhook it. We don't need it. Why did you even bother to have them hook it up, tsap seui?"" Good lord, over 150 channels of pure crap, even with Starz, HBO, and who knows what other movie channels (for a free 3 month addiction manuever). The first time I sat in front of the thing I had no clue what to look for so I sat there for over half an hour and flipped through the over 150 channels until I made myself sea sick and puked on the floor. I was only looking for Seinfeld reruns and The Simpsons as they were the only two intelligent TV shows worth watching that I could remember, or think of. Anyone else not watching TV? I thought it would be a good addition when we moved, never had it for the two months we were in the apartment but it seems we are too busy living life to take attention away from our lil' family unit to bother with it. Whenever I did turn it on it became a huge distraction from us talking and laughing amongst each other. I used to read how TV helped our familys to learn english and how I could get Chinese TV for the duo once they got over here. Looks like it fell on it's face for these guys. And now my e-mail is flooded with crap from Direct TV. Maybe I am just still too young to be tied down to a box in the evenings and these guyz would rather sit down and laugh at me dancing and singing to them like a fool to turn it on and instead sit there with drool running down their lips, anyhow. Goodbye Direct TV, two weeks of not watchin' your "over 150 channels" stuff is more than enough. Next week I'll send your fancy box back and take the dish which looks like something used to communicate with the Spyder Men from Mars with....mebbe I'll give ya a call when I'm in my 80's or if we ever get bored with each others company. tsap seui
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Ok, so I am new to the site, and also new to having a Chinese bride….in fact, so new that she is not here yet (she and her son should be here in a little over a week). I have a couple of "off the wall" questions for someone.... For the last several years, I have not watched television. You might say that I have some amount of disdain for TV, although I am not the zealot that this might sound like to some. I just hate it personally. I want to allow my wife and stepson enough freedom to use the TV if they want, although (obviously) we have talked about this and at least my wife is in general agreement with me about TV. (When I speak of the TV, I mean television programs as opposed to movies. I know that some television programs are good, but I feel that most of the content/commercials are moronic, insulting, and often undermine our culture. I do not mean this to be offensive or insulting to anyone who likes to watch the TV and enjoys it. This is just me.) I have heard that the TV can be very useful for helping someone immerse themselves with the English language.... as well as the culture. Frankly, the "culture" part of it is what I worry about with the TV, but my questions are: Is the TV beneficial in helping someone learn English, and are the benefits enough to offset my concerns about picking up cultural ideas that I do not feel are appropriate or acceptable? Where does one go to find either Chinese movies with English subtitles, or English movies with Chinese subtitles? I was thinking that Netflix would be a good source for mainstream movies, but I also want to find some movies that are actually in Mandarin or Cantonese. I am sure that they will appreciate a break from the English immersion once in a while! Would anyone care to tell me what they have found to be the best ways to teach English? I expect that I will not settle on just one method, but some of the thoughts that I have entertained ranged from school textbooks to interactive DVDs. Thanks in advance! Brad
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Since my Lao Po came to USA we watch less and less cable TV. I pay $90 a month for cable + internet bundle so here is a big monthly bill we could reduce. There are no Chinese channels or premium (e.g. HBO) channels in my bundle. To go there would put us in the $150 a month range. Lao Po likes American movies and I know Net flicks has some sort of $10 a month all you can eat deal. Also she will like Chinese TV (mainland, much more than Taiwan). I like NFL football, CNN and nature/history/science channels like the Discovery channel, the History channel, the Travel channel. Has anyone found a better solution? I was thinking that with a fast internet (might cost $50 a month unbundled) + Net Flicks ($10 a month), I could cut this bill from $90 to $60 (a 50% reduction) and perhaps actually end up with better service. I know I need to cut expenses but I'm a little afraid of long term commitments for Satellite TV. Experiences? If you went the satellite route please include all your expenses (e.g. we have 2 TVs so if you need an extra decoder box or installation charge please include that) and the length of commitment. I'm leaning toward a computer based solution though as it may be cheaper (cheap = good) and involve less long term commitment. Thanks in advance. True Blue
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Hi my wife speaks Cantonise and she is coming here in 23 days I have noticed that the Dish network and Direct TV both have Chinese channels I was wondering what one was better? The lady at our condo assocation says it is against our bylaws to have a satalite dish however when I went to the SEC website it said it was against the law for anybody to prevent you from having a satalite dish. The 2 other options online tv the only sight I have been able to find is www.iTV.com they have 80 Chinese channels however there is alot of advertising and the download is slow so it has to stop and load every so often. They also have there advertisements or logo on the screen at all times. Netflicks is my other option. There website only lets you browse a few thing so I cannot tell if they have many streaming movies with Chinese language or subtitles. If anybody has any info about this it would be helpful. Thanks
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Here in the hills of Virginia ,with the new digital tv signal, reception is very poor. I was wondering, does China have analog or digital tv broadcasting.
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I was thinking of buying a small portable TV for my Fiancee in China, since we will be apart another year. I am looking at 15 inch with DVD player. This would be something she could bring back here later. I bought her a 15 inch laptop last month, which she is very happy with. I sent her the $$, since the laptop was the same price there as here. I was wondering if the small TVs cost near the same as here. Found a 15" with DVD at Walmart, $170.
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I'm not sure where to start looking for foreign Channels, Yakun tells me I can get an illegal satellite service or I can buy channels from the local t.v. station but I'm guessing that would be rather limited. What are your experiences ye expats?
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When we first moved to China, I managed to get by for several weeks watching CCTV, news and programming. Because I am not fluent in Chinese, I missed a lot of what was being said; and also began to miss Western news. My wife located a man that provides several ex-pats in the Nanjing area with a satellite connection. We paid him a rather hefty fee by Chinese standards, but he got it hooked up with a strong signal from the Dream Satellite network out of the Philippines. It's my understanding that Dream is one of the most popular satellite feeds for ex-pats in China. Some of the programming includes: HBO Cinemax Star National Geographic History Channel CNN (asia) Discovery Animal Network Travel Channel ...and quite a few others... As you might expect, there is a big market for piracy in China when it comes to satellite TV. The challenge of course, is finding a good connection, good price, and someone that's going to be available to fix problems, and not disappear along with your signal. Most Chinese are unfamiliar with satellite TV for expats, so it's hard to find information by word of mouth. We've had a good connection for many months, with minor problems a couple of times. The technician was always available, and came right over to get it up and running again. We signed up for a one-year contract with him, for a price that included the equipment; a mini-dish, decoder box, remote and cables. It's been about 8-months, and last night, the signal dropped out, with a message that our Smart Card was not authorized. My wife tried to reach our technician, but his phone was turned OFF. I did a little research on the internet, and discovered that there are quite a few services available for a good deal less than what we paid. Oh well; live and learn. I read that one of the more often perpetrated scams is for the pirate to get you connected legitimately to the service, but then the service drops out before the agreed time. In our case, it was one-year, so we've got about four-months left from our original agreement. My wife finally reached the guy this morning, and told him the signal dropped out with the unauthorized card message. He told her he would renew the account from his office this morning. Now, for me, I've always been a skeptic, and that often gets me into trouble with my wife. In her view, we had an agreement with the man, and he will honor it. In my mind however, I wonder why he didn't sign us up for one full year to begin with. At any rate, we will hopefully have our signal restored later today, but in the meantime, be able to locate some cheaper and more reliable services. Is anyone out there familiar with these services?
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Saw this today: http://chinesequest.blogspot.com/2009/01/c...tv-at-home.html If you want some free China TV stations you can watch (VLC is a free media player for windows). -
Hey Guys, I am writing to ask for some advice written in very plain laymen's non-technical English because I am still a bit behind the times on technical stuff. I'm not good at sifting through plans and figuring out what you are really going to pay for x, y, and z. Right now, I have Cox communications for my land phone (with $4.00/month international service, calls to China run about $.13/minute), for cable TV (just basic digital cable, no international programming), and for internet service (their middle level high speed internet service which includes firewall, virus, anit spyware). The phone portion costs me about $83.00 per month on average. The cable and internet run me about $98.00 per month. My cell phone is with T-Mobile and costs me about $34.00 per month and includes 300 anywhere minutes. So, for all of this each month I am paying about $217.00. This includes all of the fees and taxes. My girl and her son will be coming this fall (if all goes well). I need to get away from Cox and get satellite TV that includes at least some Chinese programming, comparable internet service, and a cheaper long distance service (my friend Mike Xiao recommends E-callNet.com phone cards at about $.02/minute for long distance to China. That sounds good.) I have looked on line at Dish Net, and Dish Network, etc., for my internet and TV, but I find their information a bit comfusing. So now, I think I would like to keep T-Mobile and simply go to a family plan to cover my new family, maybe use the cell to make the calls to China since it involves calling long distance within the U.S. to E-call Net. Then I would just drop my land line period. Would that work for the phone part? And, I really need help figuring out how to get decent TV and Internet service from one of the satellite companies. If you can guide me in this, I shall be forever in your debt.
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Thinking it would be a good thing for Jin if we could get some chinese language TV/Radio for when she gets here, is it possible? or just via computer?
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Those of us who want Chinese TV for our SO's when they get here should be aware that Dish network carries 2 of the CCTV stations (one is unfortunately in French and Spanish - very funny mix, though). CCTV9 is in english, CCTV E&F is in Spanish anf French You may also subscribe to around 30 or 40 other Chinese stations with a seperate dish at 90 or 120 (I think it is) Great Wall Package ($29.99/month): ATV HOME CHANNEL (AMERICA), BEIJING TV (BTV) CCTV-4, CCTV-9, CCTV-E&F, CCTV-ENTERTAINMENT CCTV-OPERA, CHINA MOVIE CHANNEL (CMC), CYRTV DRAGON TV, FUJIAN SOUTHEAST TV (SETV) GUANGDONG SOUTHERN TV (TVS), HUNAN SATELLITE TV (HTV) JIANGSU INTERNATIONAL CHANNEL, PACVIA TV PHOENIX INFONEWS, PHOENIX NORTH AMERICA CHINESE CHANNEL DirecTV or cable providers may provide similar packages - I just don't know
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Hi , Friend, My fiancee will come to USA soon. I am thinking what I should prepare for her coming. I plan to install a Satellite TV for her coming. My good friend recommend me to this good website http://www.vmc-dish-tv-4-me.com It is such good deal!!! I plan to install the Satellite TV, it is better a lot than the cable TV. I recommend this to all friends, and see whether it can help you.
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I am shopping around for some Chinese television for Bing to watch when she gets here. The options for Portland are Dish network which has a couple of packages with 6 or 9 channels for $24.99 plus basic top 60 which is another $24.99, I could do Jade world on Direct TV for $39.99 with no other programing or I can add CCTV to my comcast cable for $19.99 including the cable box I would have to add. Seems a little spendy for one channel but it would be my cheapest overall option. Is CCTV any good?
