Does anyone else have TV from Telefonica? Turned it on today and the OV disappeared. Now we're stuck watching dubbed shows in Spanish I'm hoping it's only a technical problem. We still have english on the TDT.
rob
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Posts: 386 | Location: Tres Cantos | Registered: 29 June 2006
Doesn't matter what language it is I can't get used to the voices not lining up. I can handle watching original programming in Spanish but not seeing my favourite programs being dubbed.
Actually that's not quite true, we had Sky TV in Germany and Chris ended up watching alot of her shows in English and German depending if she was on the road or not and sometimes she couldn't remember if she had seen a particular eposdie in English or German. I used to watch alot of the German news programs/documentaries and I didn't mind that as I could follow the program but I havn't made the same effort in Spanish.
Part of it is I don't have the motivation to learn Spanish the way I did German, you can survive anywhere in Europe as long as you speak English. Sound terrible but it's true. I've gotten used to muddling my way through.
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Posts: 386 | Location: Tres Cantos | Registered: 29 June 2006
i am thinking of putting imagenio in this summer when we have our wee-one as ena will be off nearly 1.5 yrs from work and i think it would be nice for her and "lynquito" to have it at home.
a co-worker of ena has the sam(ish) thing via jazztel (called jazztelia televisión) and has been down for nearly 3 weeks now
does imagenio crash a lot and for long periods of time?
I've had Imagenio since October and it has never crashed (that I know of, but then again I hardly ever watch TV and I've never used the English language thingy). One thing, you can still do teletexto with Imagenio, so you can see the Spanish shows subtitled in Spanish. Which is a great way to learn.
P.S. The really, really bad American TV shows that they show at 3:00am are funnier dubbed. Also, I think the dubbing on the Simpsons is just brilliant.
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there are constantly little problems. the OV button not working, the program box coming up blank, etc. but as for being down completely, this is the first time i've seen it. i was out since yesterday afternoon, but it just came back on, but the OV button to switch languages is not working at all.
when it works, it is okay. we mostly watch fox and discovery. sometimes cnn and bbc. there are some movie and music channels too, but by no means are the offerings great. most of the time we can find nothing of interest on. also, there is no easy way to browse the channels to see what is on or what is coming on.
there is a forum i've used to resolve problems--usually works faster than calling them...
also, there is no easy way to browse the channels to see what is on or what is coming on.
Oh, yeah, that's one of the most annoying things. The listings menu is really slow and cumbersome. And I agree... there's still nothing good on. We usually flip through all the channels and then end up watching the travel channel or one of the regular Spanish channels (or just turn it off).
I've never really had problems with it going blank or any of that. Maybe it's your DSL line that's flaking out... You could call to complain, but then they would probably just do something to mess it up even more.
adslzone.net is a great forum for anything internet related.
Posts: 1070 | Location: Madrid | Registered: 10 December 2002
Yeah I agree the system is a little "Spanish" at times. But they generally carry all the top American programs. I've heard so many horror stories about Telefoncia I figured it only time till we had problems.
While not having English TV is anoyance being without internet would be life threatening, I spend hours online, usually while Chris is watching TV. But so far internet has been working fine. cross the old fingers.
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the gold standard by far is Sky Plus. From a satellite TV point of view it was like Apple meets TV, it was one of the few things that was much much better than advertised. Unfortunately you need about 100 euros a month plus a 1,5 mtr dish to get.
Even then somedays with over 500 channels there was nothing on!!!
Does anyone have any idea what's wrong? We're going to miss Bones! We can watch it just won't understand it.
Dubbed TV is not the same.
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Posts: 386 | Location: Tres Cantos | Registered: 29 June 2006
One thing... write down everything they promise you and get the sales rep's name. When we signed up, they waived the set-up fee and a bunch of other stuff. When our first bill came, of course the supposedly waived fees were on it. We called to complain and they sent us a check for the over-charge. Of course you've lived here long enough to be on the look out for this sort of special si cuela customer service...
Posts: 1070 | Location: Madrid | Registered: 10 December 2002
It's what I figured they just put in a new box. The only scare I had was when my internet went down and then realized they had turned the line off, and I had visions of being without internet Telephone and TV (notice the prioritys here) for months on end as many of our friends have been.
Jer if you get Telefoncia Imagenio than I would go for the whole package. It's not much more expensive but the service is way over the top. People are really surprised at how fast we get service, the only thing I can put it too it that we took the pretty much everything they had, except the baby channel.
th
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Posts: 386 | Location: Tres Cantos | Registered: 29 June 2006
I'm hoping it's only a technical problem. We still have english on the TDT.
to have it at home.
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