UBC/cable? and rental houses...

[perky]

Could someone tell me what sort of programming you get on cable tv?

We are in the middle of a house hunt and have got used to having UBC Gold, but quite a few places offer cable tv instead and I don't even know if that would include any English-language programs.

While I'm at it - if anyone knows of a furnished house for rent (up to 13,000/month) that wouldn't require an arm and a leg to fit with ADSL, UBC (preferably) and at least one aircon, let me know. We need a fenced/walled garden too as we have two dogs. Currently we live in Chalong and need to stay reasonably near the Chalong-Kata axel but would consider something further away too if it's otherwise nice/suitable.

Thanks...

[LivinLOS]

Cable can come from one of many many different companies so the programming is dependant on who you sign up with and also seems to change fairly often with no notice or visible planning.

Cable often contains stolen hacked content.. Hence you usually get the multichoice package from SA which has great sport, better than UBC (eg theres more than just football, rugby motorsport etc coverage better).. Theres English language stuff but it is a downgrade from UBC (except for sport)..

Comically you even get movies while still in cinema or DVD stage.. My mate used to get a movie channel and it wasnt unusual for the movie to pause midway for 10 mins while Somchai forgot to change the VCD !!

I tend to find the quality of signal worse on cable (not so important for many on small TV's)..

[K2]

Phuket Cable (PK) and KPP - both 350 Baht/month have ~ 40 Channels.

English Channels
BBC
FOX
DW (Eng/German)
MM2 (English Movies after 6pm)
Movie Channel (newish movies - unofficial )
V
MTV
MNET Series
FTV
Disney
Nickleodian
Australia Network
Zone Reality
Eurosport
S1/S3 - Premiership Footy

Pretty reliable - prefer PK to PKK.

[Dame]

I get what's presumably the standard Thai TV, with only 3 English speaking channels - Fox News (Nazi party propaganda channel), Aljeezera (the world is starving and it's all your fault channel) and Disney (the spoilt brat channel).

Whatever you do, get cable.