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Interesting developments! :gr:

Yeah I wonder if that price increase was related or if Dish plans to raise the price again? I also wonder how GMG came to their senses and finally got Mega Cosmos back on Dish, considering they were heavily pushing Ellas TV to customers after Home2US closed. (What happens to those customers by the way?) Perhaps an intervention from Greece for once?? This is great news though. By the way it will be ironic if Mega Cosmos is added to Dish on December 1st....six years exactly to the day it left. :LOL:

Well I did not see this one coming! According to Dish Network's Greek TV Facebook page, Mega Cosmos will be coming soon to their platform after leaving almost six years ago. http://www.facebook.com/pages/DISH-Network...109020472516999

Someone I know got Ellas TV. It looks like they fixed the delayed channels since addynia had service, because he says that the delayed channels are a true 7 hours delay. For example a show played at 8PM in Greece is played at 8PM eastern time on the delayed channel. (Well at least before the time changed, but the time changes here in a few days anyway) That seems like a pretty nice feature for these direct channels, as you can enjoy the programing in the US as it would be shown in Greece. Hopefully I can test it out as well soon and I’ll be sure to post of any pros or cons he tells me of as well.

Do you think it is professional for any company offering a paid service to get upset when customers or prospecting customers ask legitimate questions just because the company does not wish to answer?? Or get upset when a customer brings to light legitimate problems they are having with their service?? By your logic, everyone should just hand over their money to Ellas TV blindly, and just deal with any problems they might come across because they should be grateful that Ellas TV is offering the service in the first place. :rolleyes: And not to nitpick, but from all public account this service has not been around 2 years yet as you claim.... That being said and to be fair, as of recent it seems like Ellas TV was trying to answer people's questions and be helpful on this forum. But at the same time, one would think they would work better on their public relations as some of the responses have not been helpful at all, (And not to mention borderline rude) and they have also ignored a few questions that were asked.... I asked that earlier and still haven't gotten an answer... From one of their many sites, I see one mentions that a subscription is needed for every additional box, but I'm not sure if the subscriptions for the additional boxes on the account are full price or not.

I think you are missing the fact that addynia also subscribes to Mega Cosmos through Home2US, and does not experience the same lip sync issues with the Home2US stream of Mega Cosmos that he does with the Ellas TV stream. Therefore one would come to the conclusion that the broadcaster is not at fault in this case.

Comcast had a 250GB cap for years for all users, with no option to buy more. If you went over it a few times, they would cut your service. They just suspended it in May, in favor of studying two new approaches. They will start rolling out the new approaches next month in two test markets, and all markets will have a data cap again soon when they decide which one to go with. In both approaches though the customers will get a minimum of 300GB. http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/co...a-caps-for-now/ Thank you for finally answering this! :) I admit that the rates do seem low compared to other IPTV, but I assume you wouldn't put out false information about bandwidth as it is a need-to-know fact for some people because of caps. I noticed you did not answer the other two questions though, so I will post them again. Is it true that you have to pay for a second subscription (albeit not as much) if you want a second stream in your home? Why don't you list every channel you carry publicly on your website?

I admit I am not familiar AT ALL with the specifics on how Roku operates, but if what you say is true then how is WhereverTV on Roku? In fact they are listed right on their website under international (as Ελληνικ

It is funny, I don't think you or I would call Dish World IPTV a non legitimate company, but they also suggest "High-speed Internet connection of at least 1.0 Mbps (1.5 Mbps or higher is recommended)" on their site....

Alright I have a few questions then since you seem to be trying to answer them. (Some of which that I think have been asked over and over again without a solid answer) What is your bandwidth usage rate per hour? For example Netflix publicly claims that 1 hour of SD streaming from their site consumes around 1 GB. Is it true that you have to pay for a second subscription (albeit not as much) if you want a second stream in your home? Why don't you list every channel you carry publicly on your website? In all honesty, it doesn't help your image of being a legitimate business currently.

I think that's easier said than done for some. It would suck spending all that money on a set top box, then having the channels yanked if the providers get into trouble. Sure there is the Roku option (is that out yet?), but to my understanding it is best to have the Ellas TV box to take full advantage of all that they offer. (like video on demand) Going off the description on their site and what addynia wrote earlier about the Mega pack, I would guess the 30 dollar basic pack includes the different versions of Mega and Star channels.

Thanks for the info addynia, it's frustrating that this service can't just post all the necessary information on their website. I thought the point of time delay was to be able to watch the programs at the times they are broadcast in Greece. For example the program Mega Channel broadcast at 9PM Greek time would be shown at 9 PM Eastern time on the time delay channel. At least that is what I always thought was meant by "time delay". With the way it is set up now, it sounds like prime time shows are broadcast in the middle of the night on the time delay channel?! Whats the point of that?

Here is a summary of the video harlem_reporter posted above, for those who can't view it for whatever reason.

Wow, what a find! This guy names names and makes a number of claims. Here is my problem with his argument though. There very well may be a scandal like he claims with the allocation of rights for ERT World, (more than likely, this is ERT after all) but what I don't like is that he seems to think that before this scandal there were no problems and no scandals with the rights for ERT World. Maybe he should look into what went on during the years Comart held the rights. Which was a fixed allocation process as well from everything we have heard and read. There were a number of scandals that were reported on this forum during the time they held the rights, from suing UBI, to the Dish Network debacle, to ERT being forced to take down their online stream back then. I'm not saying that this makes it right, but if he wants to blow the lid off a scandal, he should go all the way back and bring everything up instead of just parts of it. It seems to me that this guy might have an agenda to get the rights back to Comart/France Telecom GlobeCast. Actually I would argue that forcing us living in North American to pay a subscription for the channel, while it is FTA on KU-band practically worldwide is the real scandal here. I'm still waiting for someone to bring up that issue.... EDIT: Wait, in the video he seems to claim that they won the rights with "dirty money" that was made from an Australian who was accused of pirating the ERT World signal. Is he talking about the UBI and Comart thing when they sued them because they were rebroadcasting the FTA signal to their subs for free? Didn't the Greek courts rule back then that UBI did nothing wrong and dismissed the case? If this guy wants to "break a scandal", maybe he should get his facts straight first. :box:

I believe at one point, ERT also had an English language newscast. If I recall correctly though, it was broadcast at some odd hour. As for subtitled programing, I believe there are a few shows currently that are broadcast with English subtitles. (I know I have seen at least one.) It will be interesting to see what exactly this new guy has in mind for ERT World. Let's hope it is nothing bad.

Home2us has been around since about 2003 I think, and cater to the ethnic communities primarily carrying mostly international channels. When the Greek channels left DirecTV earlier this year, they moved to Home2US and a new package was put together. Of course there are questions about the stability of everything, especially in this economy. There is a whole thread about it here as well if you are interested: http://clubs.phantis.com/sports/index.php?...ic=13481&st=475

ERT responded to the claims made and questions raised.

Thanks for the link DKSat, always good to have a quality online steam. Just an update, very interesting movement from ERT online. I checked ERT's site again now and it looks like they are testing/introducing "ERT Web TV". Check this out: http://www.ert.gr/webtv/ It has some of their shows online, but also the left panel mentions live streams of ET1, NET, and ERT World! So far it seems only ET1 and NET streams are click-able, though they aren

It seems that ERT is trying out web tv/online streaming. I was on the ERT site last night, and they had a live stream of NET going. It's not mentioned on their front page anymore though, but here is the link it was at: http://www.ert.gr/netlive/multi-player/liveint.html It is currently not working anymore....Maybe it is only available during a certain time? If only we could get the ERT World online stream back....

Funny that you saw it on Ant1......the same Ant1 that confirmed they do not recognize your service. "In response to your question, the iptv service you are providing us with is neither affiliated or recognized by Antenna TV." :gr:

They must have decided against broadcasting it on ERT World this year for some reason. All the news articles on their Eurovision site strangely do not mention ERT World. For example, check this out from their first semi-final report: "The contest was broadcast live by NET and ERT HD, within the framework of the state broadcaster

As addynia posted in the other thread, ERT HD is official! Skai is none too happy about it though, saying ERT is introducing HD illegally. (From what I understand Skai has been ready to broadcast in HD for years but has been stopped for some reason.) ERT responds to them in their press release. http://www.ert.gr/index.php/eidiseis/polit...8-15-14-08.html Edit: More on Skai's complaints: http://www.satleo.gr/content/view/3671/1/

Don't know if this really fits this thread, but ERT is examining programming proposals for next season. So far they have received 176 proposals and will narrow them down to 5.

Probably until Hollywood finds out and enforces their content control. The only way the Greek channels will really step it up is if they are pressured by an outside party to take action IMO. (like the content distributors pressuring them to enforce their Greece only rights) ANT1 seem to be the only ones that really go after misuse of their content, but this service does a good job of hiding the fact that they even offer ANT1.....