1499 un posto al sole.

[QUOTE=nigelgh]5 years ago my wife and i went with a friend ,for a laugh,to do a beginners italian course.After nvqs, gcses,15 visits to italy and private tuition we consider ourselves pretty reasonable. However to hone our skills and possibly progress we had italian tv installed at home.We picked a soap called un posto al sole on rai tre, taped it each night and looked up the words and phrases we didnt understand.This was how it started.......
....every night at 7.30 it all stops in this house for un posto,we ooh and aah with the goings on, ignoring the gaping holes in the plots, we sit absolutley rapt and goggle eyed at the tv for half an hour. Are we the only people in the uk this sad or are there others out there?[/QUOTE]
oh dear looks like we've cornered the market on sad tv watching :D

Hi there,

How do you get Italian TV installed at home?
(I am assuming you are meaning the uk?)

Lesley & Brian

we contacted a local independent tv aerial man who installed a sat dish and receiver for the hotbird satellite which we paid about 300 pounds for. yes this is in uk.i think its quite common.

Hi again,
Was this instead of (or as well as) an English satellite dish?
(Sorry if this in a completely daft question - we don't even have sky or anything like that in the UK).

And so does it mean we could get UK tv when we are in Italy (with the right equipment)?

Regards, Lesley

[QUOTE=iwanttobeinitaly]Hi again,
And so does it mean we could get UK tv when we are in Italy (with the right equipment)?[/QUOTE]

It's been convered in several threads; there are several options........ read on!
[url]http://www.italymag.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=881&highlight=satellite[/url]

[QUOTE=iwanttobeinitaly]Hi again,
Was this instead of (or as well as) an English satellite dish?
(Sorry if this in a completely daft question - we don't even have sky or anything like that in the UK).

And so does it mean we could get UK tv when we are in Italy (with the right equipment)?

Regards, Lesley[/QUOTE]

Hi,
we don't have sky either, so don't really know how that works. This one needs to be a seperate dish as it points at a different sattelite to the sky one.
You have to buy all the equipment & then have no contract or subscriptions to pay.
We now have access to all sorts of wierd & wonderful channels that we will never watch. But we can get all the italian ones. We can also get subtitles on the Rai channels, which is very helpful. If a character goes off into dialect the subtitles show "normal" italian, so that us foreigners still know whats going on
hope that helps
kind regards
Nigel

[QUOTE=nigelgh]oh dear looks like we've cornered the market on sad tv watching :D[/QUOTE]

LOL! We have Sky so unfortunately don't get Italian channels (other half would miss his Sky movies!) ... however, there's a Euro News channel (528) where you can listen to comments on all programmes in several European languages, including Italian.

Occasionally I sit there watching the news while an interpreter makes comments in highly fluent Italian! Way too fast for my taste but good exercise! I'm always chuffed when I manage to pick up only a few words - even though watching the news pictures in the background often helps...

Isn't it wonderful?? :D

Enjoy!
Stephanie

[QUOTE=tuscanhills]It's been convered in several threads; there are several options........ read on!
[url]http://www.italymag.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=881&highlight=satellite[/url][/QUOTE]

Hi,
Thanks for the link.
Have managed to confuse myself somewhat but on investigation I believe that we would need a dish of about 3.5 metres to get UK programming in Italy and we wouldn't even be able to get terrestrial digital for Italian programming.
Can you get Sky Freesat in Italy (dish and box but without the subscription)?

Regards, Lesley & Brian

[QUOTE=nigelgh]Hi,
we don't have sky either, so don't really know how that works. This one needs to be a seperate dish as it points at a different sattelite to the sky one.
You have to buy all the equipment & then have no contract or subscriptions to pay.
We now have access to all sorts of wierd & wonderful channels that we will never watch. But we can get all the italian ones. We can also get subtitles on the Rai channels, which is very helpful. If a character goes off into dialect the subtitles show "normal" italian, so that us foreigners still know whats going on
hope that helps
kind regards
Nigel[/QUOTE]

Hi again,
Could you tell me where I could buy such a system (or what it is called)?
Lesley & Brian

[QUOTE=iwanttobeinitaly]Hi,
Thanks for the link.
Have managed to confuse myself somewhat but on investigation I believe that we would need a dish of about 3.5 metres to get UK programming in Italy and we wouldn't even be able to get terrestrial digital for Italian programming.
Can you get Sky Freesat in Italy (dish and box but without the subscription)?

Regards, Lesley & Brian[/QUOTE]

Then, after you've installed the 12ft. dia. dish and aligned it absolutely perfectly you'd have to get used to several programmes errrm fading away mid afternoon, but, as mentioned MANY times before, subscribing to SKY Italia will get you a lot of English language programming, and as your Italian improves, you can switch to all Italian language. Freesat dishes are available in Italy, most brico's carry them, big supermarkets, electronics shops. usually under 100 Euro, again, a few English language channels normally...

....if you want a link to any of these service, then click on the google links that appear at the bottom of the posting............ it's actually quite useful :D

:) [QUOTE=GeorgeS]Then, after you've installed the 12ft. dia. dish and aligned it absolutely perfectly you'd have to get used to several programmes errrm fading away mid afternoon, but, as mentioned MANY times before, subscribing to SKY Italia will get you a lot of English language programming, and as your Italian improves, you can switch to all Italian language. Freesat dishes are available in Italy, most brico's carry them, big supermarkets, electronics shops. usually under 100 Euro, again, a few English language channels normally...[/QUOTE]

Ta George,
Having no experience of satellite at all in the UK I am a complete plonker about all this stuff (in any country).
Can I assume that Italy will be going all digital soon like the UK?
Oh.... or is it already? (Told you I was clueless :o )

And, believe it or not, I don't watch much telly (hubby says I'm always too busy watching THIS screen to watch the tv screen).
Will have another rummage through earlier posts and try to educate myself a bit more before I ask any more daft questions. :)
Best wishes, Lesley

[QUOTE=iwanttobeinitaly]:)

Can I assume that Italy will be going all digital soon like the UK?
[/QUOTE]

Yes it is. There is a timescale within which the whole country should be covered and it will be digital only, no terrestrial at all. Offhand I cannot remember the date but it should all happen within the next couple of years.
Regards
Anne2

[QUOTE=iwanttobeinitaly]Hi again,
Could you tell me where I could buy such a system (or what it is called)?
Lesley & Brian[/QUOTE]
OK, Brian an lesley this ones for you.I have contacted the man who installed our system. He says that a 70cm dish is all that is required plus a digital receiver cost about 200 quid. With brackets,cable and fitting roughly between 350-400 for the whole job.He does about 10 a week for italians,greeks,bosnians etc who all want to watch tv from back home. He only installs to a radius of 50 miles from Derby but maybe he could supply the gear.I'm sure however there is somebody near to you who does it. If nothing else this could act as a price guide to stop you getting ripped off.He is...Connect satellites,233 Normanton rd, Derby DE23 6UT. Tel01332 736673.
Buona fortuna. P.s if you get it done watch un posto al sole on rai tre its fab ( in a sort of crappy soap way. the views of Naples are great though) Let me know how you get on.

[QUOTE=nigelgh]OK, Brian an lesley this ones for you.I have contacted the man who installed our system. He says that a 70cm dish is all that is required plus a digital receiver cost about 200 quid. With brackets,cable and fitting roughly between 350-400 for the whole job.He does about 10 a week for italians,greeks,bosnians etc who all want to watch tv from back home. He only installs to a radius of 50 miles from Derby but maybe he could supply the gear.I'm sure however there is somebody near to you who does it. If nothing else this could act as a price guide to stop you getting ripped off.He is...Connect satellites,233 Normanton rd, Derby DE23 6UT. Tel01332 736673.
Buona fortuna. P.s if you get it done watch un posto al sole on rai tre its fab ( in a sort of crappy soap way. the views of Naples are great though) Let me know how you get on.[/QUOTE]

Hi nigelgh,
Many thanks for your very comprehensive info :)
You have me intrigued re un posto al sole and i have just found this online so am off for a rummage...
[url]http://www.unpostoalsole.rai.it/home.htm[/url]
(and another post in the language thread reckons watching programmes even without understanding a lof of it helps with language learning so its a great excuse to watch Italian soaps I'd say!)
Regards, Lesley & Brian

Oh... it looks like you can watch it online too...

[url]http://www.raiclicktv.it/raiclickpc/secure/folder.srv?id=1377[/url]

L & B