Telmicro Levante

[Chrisdee]

Torresat girl came into the office yesterday in Quesada and gave us, what she thought was an excellent offer for ex tm clients.
Long list of channels was included (Sky was not one of them) She claimed that TM was shut solely on Taxfraud. When questioned, she couldnt give a straight answer. And she didnt sound very convincing when questioned about the rebroadcast license either. She just kept saying that we look after our customers....

Why do I get the feeling that they are just sneaking in and wanna do a killing before the party is over?

Perhaps Torresat are giving backhanders and it will last, you pay your money and you take your chance. Do a couple of lines on the Euro lottery for tomorrow, if you win, who cares about loosing 250 euros AGAIN!

[Loopylou]

Torresat

One Torresat sales rep told a friend of mine that the reason that they were not re-broadcasting was that Torresat had their very own satellite up in orbit.... Honestly! He expected my friend to believe that they had enough money to firstly build a satellite and then put it in orbit...amazing!!

[Julskin]

We've had a couple of cowboys coming to our urb offering to re-position dishes and fiddle with the coshop box in order to pick up Torresat signal for a mere 30 euros. Bet Torresat would be well impressed !!!

[Nalle]

One Torresat sales rep told a friend of mine that the reason that they were not re-broadcasting was that Torresat had their very own satellite up in orbit.... Honestly! He expected my friend to believe that they had enough money to firstly build a satellite and then put it in orbit...amazing!!

So thats why they built that huge sling shot up on the quesada hill...

Some people just never seizes to amaze me.

[Robi]

According to the Spanish press: Charges are being made against a TV company in the Costa Blanca for tax fraud - 500 million euros!!

[Chrisdee]

According to the Spanish press: Charges are being made against a TV company in the Costa Blanca for tax fraud - 500 million euros!!

Weren't this what all the postings were about last night?

[paulc307]

just a bit behind the times mate!!
i understood that the figure was the value of the company?? income equipment value etc maybe i got that wrong ( naff spanish)

[Mikea]

I think that the 500 million euros (or possibly in excess of) is the current value of the estimated non-payment of content license fees stolen / borrowed (without consent) plus the sums of the under-declared revenues obtained from the poor unsuspecting viewers (60,000 gross - 17,000 declared).

It is worth noticing that other re-broadcasters have allegedly formed a legal consortium (apparently headed up by a Lawyer) in order to attempt to provide a united front in the event if / when the next wave of piracy actions are initiated...

These guys working in harmony conjures up some wonderfully vivid pictures (and could be worth a TV series in it's own right!!!)

[Christine]

Telmicro

At last we seem to have confirmation having read today's round town news that the company has gone for good, that is how I read it anyway.

At least we now know that we need to make other arrangements if we want to watch T.V

Still confusion over which company is safest to use to keep up and running.

Sky will never be legally shown again so if anyone advertises that it is legal best keep away from that company.

I think I might chance a free to view option with no sky ( other than Sky News ) at least that way you are only paying a one off fee.

Hope you all sort something out soon

[englishbullterrier]

I've just put in a 1.8 dish with a Freesat box and it's just fine. Anyone close wants to come and have a look, let me know. I'm in Los Altos......ebt

[Bluealaska27]

Hi I have been watching this thread with a great deal of interest. We are not sure which way to jump with this situation. Can you let me know how much the dish was, where did you get it and how much was the freesat box and what programmes you can receive, do you need a viewing card? We bought a Spanish aerial and system which is okay but we do miss BBC and ITV channels. We live at the top of Quesada and would appreciate any advice Thanks

[Warrior]

Free Film Channels

Sorry to bang on about this but can anyone tell me which satellite I need to connect to, to receive free to air Film Channels.

Any assistance with this would be appreciated.

[englishbullterrier]

There are some FTA movie channels on Astra II at 28.2 deg East.

Movies


Bad Movies
Eat Cinema
Film4
HorrorChannel
Matinee Movies
True Movies

go to

Freesat channels available on Astra 2.

to see the complete list of fta channels

Hope this helps, ebt

[englishbullterrier]

Hi, my dish, including ground stand, feedhorn, twin output LNB was 545 Euros from Nortons in La Zenia. They are good folk who will also install for a fee. I installed my own.

My Freesat was sent to me by my Son, from Argos, it's the High Def Humax. But, Nortons also sell Freesat boxes. Let me know if I can help further.......ebt

See here for channels available.....

Freesat channels available on Astra 2.

[Rachel J]

Hi there EBT,

We are trying to set up a 1.2 offset dish with Humax Freesat boxes for the first time.

Do you have any tips on set up, please?

A satellite installer from another area has tried to help us and we have been using the co-ordinates from dishpointer.com but are getting nowhere fast! All we have at present is that it is 'searching for the satellite signal'.

Thanks!