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While I rarely watch tv here in the US, the thought of giving up world news (Fox,CNN, MSNBC) in Costa Rica is one luxury I would like to keep. I have read about Direct TV there-is it in English? Also, are there other such companies (English)which provide similar service? I know I keep stressing English & I will learn Spanish & I also know about Spanish immersion….however what about the learning curve?????
I MUST pay for cable TV in order to have my cable internet service and the most reliable cable TV company is Amnet
There are hundreds of channels available and certainly dozens and dozens of English language channels which you can see at
You can see their price list at
Cable TV is NOT available in many parts of the country in which case you may need to go for Direct TV for which I can not seem to find a site.
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comPS. Do you get “news” from those stations you mentioned?
I found the Direct TV at http://www.directv.co.cr/english/index.htm.
P.S. In answer to your question…no..mostly mindless dribble…… But I might miss something with Natalie in Aruba 🙁
Direct TV **Latin America** carries CNN International and a few other English-language entertainment channels. We had it for most of a year but got sick of nothing but re-runs from one channel to another.
The practical alternative is Dr. Dish’s service. They will provide you a satellite dish and a tuner, and facilitate your enrolling as a paid customer of Dish Network. That way, you get the same signal, from the same satellites, as you would in the U.S. Due to the curvature of the earth, you don’t get every channel that you would in the lower 48, but the English-language service is far, far better than Direct TV Latin America.
If you go the Dr. Dish route, you must have a credit account in the U.S. to bill and a phone number someplace in the U.S. where someone can answer and will say that you’re not home right now. Dr. Dish will give you a New York City mailing address which will qualify you to opt for the local broadcast channels (ABC, NBC, etc) if you want them.
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David, do you have satellite interset via Sun Sat also, or are you on a dial up? Seems to me last time I read one of your posts re satellite TV, you were upsizing your dish to a 3 meter dish via Dr. Dish. It that’s correct, were you able to use that dish with Sun Sat, or did you have to get a new one? Inquiring minds and all that!
Jim ParishDear Inquiring Mind,
SunSat does not offer an Internet satellite installation, so the answer to your question is that we continue to slog along at about 46kps dial-up speeds. And we hate every minute of it.
Dr. Dish does offer such a satellite uplink installation. If you get the big dish that affords virtually uninterruptible service (2.4 meters), it’s about $7,000 plus around $129 per month for the actual service. You have a choice of speeds and can run that $129 or so up to around $350, I think.
We started out with Dr. Dish’s TV satellite system with a 2.4 meter dish and then upgraded that to his new 3.0 meter dish which made quite a difference when it was raining. Unfortunately, he has not been able to keep up with Dish Network’s everchanging security codes, and we became very frustrated.
We decided that it was a better deal for us to contact SunSat, buy a tuner from them which is compatible with Dr. Dish’s dish (they all point at the same satellite), and enroll as paying subscribers to Dish Network.
Abby
(Dave, actually)Since this was posted originally, we’ve found Dr. Dish to be the only good option for satellite TV and access to DishNetwork’s U.S. signal.
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The BBC channel, in one of its iterations or another, is available on Dish Network’s U.S. signal which can be had here. Read the previous postings.
For reasons I can’t explain, WNET from New York, the PBS station there which is included in the “local channels” package you can get from Dish Network, hangs up our tuner. If we try to tune to it, we have to reboot the tuner. So, sadly, PBS appears to be unavailable here.
David
Could you give me Dr. Dishes email. I need a 1.2 to 3 meter dish. Just the dish or do you know of anyone that has one for sale? I will disassemble and pick up.
StanDr. Dish’s e-mail address is: drdishcr@yahoo.com
The larger the dish the better the reception, Stan. I certainly would not install a 1.2 meter dish and for the difference in cost, I’d go for the 3 meter one over the 2.4 meter model.
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