trikalinos

Regards to trikalinos1 from Boston. I've been through all the iterations of Greek TV, Dish to Directv to Home2US and now, Ellas TV. I've had the Ellas TV box with the premium pack since Home2US disappeared. I have to agree with my patrioti, Trikalinos1, that the system has had significant improvements made to it, especially the last 2-3 months. The freeze ups are long gone, lip sync issues have gone away and content has increased dramatically. I made the investment in power line ethernet to feed the Ellas TV box, instead of wi-fi, and it is now solid on all channels. Picture quality is impressive and the sound is as good as the source material. As I've mentioned before, I'm not a soccer fan, but if you are, it seems to have every match. I love Greek music and there is a seemingly endless choice including VOD concerts. As an experiment, we took the box and cables on our last trip, connected it to hotel ethernet and it worked fine. Does anyone know if the ipad or laptop version is working yet? Bottom line, the wifey (whose opinion is the only one that matters!) loves it for the Greek soaps, music and news, so it stays.

A quick report on Ellas TV from metro Boston. First off, it's the gynaika of the house that really wants Greek television. I know it's treasonous here, but I'm not much of a soccer fan. After Dish, then Directv, then Home2US went away, I tried Ellas TV, the full channel package. The first try did not go well. I thought I had a speedy connection with Verizon, but apparently not enough. It would not connect. I had to go with Verizon's ultra fast option and I finally had a chance to register the box. Lo and behold, it worked...... .for a while. Then the inevitable freeze ups and lock ups. Then there was a firmware update back in December and things seem to have smoothed out. Picture quality is typical IPTV though. Don't expect HD. Sound is pretty good, but those old greek movies sound terrible. Their system appears to be Nova TV from Greece, slingboxed to the US somehow and re-transmitted. The wifey likes it. I think it is overpriced myself, but if you want sports, there's plenty. In season there's even out of area baseball and basketball games from the US, most with Greek play by play. For some reason, there are three TV stations from Ireland on their system plus Euronews, in English from Paris, a channel I really like. There are also video on demand selections, including some terrific Greek music concerts. They constantly promise an ipad app, which I am still waiting for. There is no program guide. Overall grade, fair to good.