Kanadezos Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Greetings everyone! I'm inquiring about the Ellastv and was wondering if I were to purchase the etv-503 box could I get just the Sports pack? If so, how much would it cost? I live in Toronto. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grk101 Posted August 8, 2013 Author Share Posted August 8, 2013 I'm not sure what their status is in Canada, it appears their Canadian main site is down. I would suggest contacting them http://www.ellastvcanada.com/contact-us/ On their US site, it appears you can order just the sports package. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grk101 Posted August 8, 2013 Author Share Posted August 8, 2013 (edited) They just added about 9 channels this week, mostly local channels in Athens. So far so good. It definitely destroys Dishnetwork. I'm paying close to the same price for a lot more channels. How is the quality, has it been kept up to par with the new additions? Edited August 8, 2013 by Grk101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanadezos Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 I'm not sure what their status is in Canada, it appears their Canadian main site is down. I would suggest contacting them http://www.ellastvcanada.com/contact-us/ On their US site, it appears you can order just the sports package. Thank you for the info. I did contact them yesterday and I have yet to hear from them... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyros Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 The quality is good. Dishnetwork has a better picture. But then again, I don't watch sports on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanadezos Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 You know, I still haven't been contacted by them... Quite ridiculous. Oh well, they may have lost a few potential customers! :tdown: I'm not sure what their status is in Canada, it appears their Canadian main site is down. I would suggest contacting them http://www.ellastvcanada.com/contact-us/ On their US site, it appears you can order just the sports package. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyros Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 I'm guessing you just emailed them. For some reason they don't respond to any emails which is bad business. Give them a call during the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgiet Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Ok so who has been having problems with the following channels? Haven't been working for over 3 weeks now! Disney XD Mad greekZ E! Entertainment Nova cinema 4 Vh1 Europe Balkania music Eurosport 1 Eurosport 2 Nova sports highlight Ant1 Europe OTE cinema 2 OTE cinema 3 Extra 3 thessaloniki Ellada TV Other then that every other channel is ok!! Great picture and great sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeinaday Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 (edited) Hi. I am following this topic and i am totally confused. I live in U.S.A. and i have a few questions: 1.In greekchicago.com i can not see all these channels that you guys are posting all the time.So is there somewhere an OFFICIAL list of all these channels or not? By the way,this web site (greekchicago.com) doesn't look professional at all.I am trying to click on each package to see what is included but it is taking me back to the home page. 2.How long does it take to receive the equipment? I can ask them but i prefer to get an answer from someone who ordered from them 3.I still don't understand if ELLASTV has the permission to broadcast all these channels.Is there a clear answer?Yes or no?And where can we find this information? I don't want to subscribe and later on find out that they will cancel nova sport or otetv like they recently did in MYTV 4.Is it month to month or annual subscription? 5.Can you return your equipment and get a refund and if yes,how many days do you have to do that? 6.I am interested subscribing for the whole package but what about soccer and sports? Is there a way to watch prerecorded games like they were doing in mytv? I am working during the day, so it only works for me if i can watch the games later on ,at the time that is convenient for me. 7.I am planning to use the service at home (wi-fi) but because of my job i have to travel more than two weeks every month.Is there any way that i can leave the device at home for my family and i can still be able to watch online games and other stuff? 8.Can i use this service while i am in Greece? 9. How the Web Tv (Internet based) works? I am sorry guys asking you so many things.I hope that someone will be able to give me a few answers so i will see if it is worth it to try the service or not.It really concerns me that their web site doesn't look 100% professional and it is not informative at all. Thanks again Edited August 24, 2013 by lifeinaday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyros Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 1. The only complete list is on this board. 2. Depends how close you live to Chicago. I would say 2-5 days. 3. No clue. I know they seem to have permission for Mega and I noticed a local channel in Athens had their site on their homepage. 4. Month to Month 5. I'm not sure about that. I would ask them on the phone. 6. I don't think you can record because it doesn't come with a hard drive. They have ondemand stuff but not sure if they have soccer too. 7. They have an ipad app you can use. Its $15 to buy the app but there is no monthly charge. It works well but wasn't too excited about paying for the app. 8. Yes, as long as you have internet. 9. The Ipad works well. Not sure about the other online options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trikalinos1 Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 (edited) Hello everyone- It has been a while since the last time i posted something. Here is the new channel list for all customers that have the premium package. Additonal channels will be added till end of week September 9th. Exisitng customers need to reboot their device for the channels below to be available GREECE GENERAL MEGA COSMOS MEGA MEGA DELAYED MEGA (BACK UP) MEGA DELAYED (BACK UP) ANT1 EUROPE ANT1 ANT1 DELAYED ANT1 (BACK UP) ANT1 DELAYED (BACK UP) STAR INTERNATIONAL STAR STAR DELAYED STAR (BACK UP) START DELAYED (BACK UP) SKAI SKAI DELAYED SKAI (BACK UP) SKAI DELAYED (BACK UP) ALPHA SAT ALPHA ALPHA DELAYED ALPHA (BACK UP) ALPHA DELAYED (BACK UP) VOULI DIMOSIA TILEORASI LOCAL ATHENS 902 TV ATTICA TV EXTRA HIGH TV SUNNY CHANNEL ZOOM KONTRA CHANNEL BLUE SKY ART CHANNEL 9 CYPRUS GENERAL MEGA ANT1 SIGMA TV RIK SAT TV PLUS CAPITAL TV EXTRA 3 SPORTS NOVA SPORTS 1 NOVA SPORTS 1 HD NOVA SPORTS 1 DELAYED NOVA SPORTS 2 NOVA SPORTS 2 HD NOVA SPORTS 2 DELAYED NOVA SPORTS 3 NOVA SPORTS 4 OTE SPORT 1 HD OTE SPORT 2 HD OTE SPORT 3 HD OTE SPORT 4 EURO SPORT EURO SPORT 2 NOVA SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS ACTION 24 SPORT TV MOTORS TV MOVIES ELLAS MOVIES ELLAS MOVIES CLASSICS NOVA CINEMA 1 HD NOVA CINEMA 2 NOVA CINEMA 3 NOVA CINEMA 4 OTE CINEMA 1 HD OTE CINEMA 2 OTE CINEMA 3 FOX GREECE FOX LIFE VILLAGE CINEMA HD SUNDANCE HD MUSIC KIMA FM LIVE RYTHMOS 94.9 MTV GREECE MAD GREECE MAD CYPRUS MAD GREEKZ MAD HITS VH1 EUROPE MUSIC TV BALKANIA MUSIC ELLAS DIMOTIKA ELLAS SUPERSTARZ LOCAL THESSALONIKI EXTRA 3 EGNATIA MAKEDONIA VERGINA 4E TV 100 GNOMI DION TV THESSALONIKI EUROPE ONE EURO CHANNEL TIME CHANNEL LOCAL GREECE KRITI TV EPIRUS TV-IOANNINA STAR-LAMIA DIKTYO TILEORASI-KASTORIA DELTA TV-ALEKSANDROUPOLI ELLADA TV-SPARTI PELLA TV-KILKIS ENA CHANNEL-KAVALA TILEORASI KISSAMOS KIDS NICKELODEON HD ELLAS KIDS DISNEY CHANNEL DISNEY XD NICKELODEON BOOMERANG SMILE KIDS CO NEWS/DOCUMENTARY DEUTSCHE WELLE DISCOVERY CHANNEL HISTORY CHANNEL ANIMAL PLANET TLC TRAVEL CHANNEL E! ENTERTAINMENT Edited September 8, 2013 by trikalinos1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Himaros Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Hi guys. I live in Melbourne-Australia and I've been with ELLAS TV for almost 8 months. I don't understand why they focus on adding more channels rather than focus on improving the major channels: Mega Cosmos, Mega, Star International, Star, Alpha, Skai. The picture quality of those channels is very disappointing. The new channels they added have a good pic quality and they also improved the quality of all the OTE channels. So can someone explain to me why they care more about these channels rather than care about the Major Greek channels? It doesn't make sense. The majority of Greek people is interested in the major Greek channels and this is why they go with their service. They good think is that the channels don't freeze like they used to before. I hope this won't change. My friend has TV PLUS (direct satellite tv provider) and the pic quality of all the channels is AMAZING. It is what we call digital image. It's better than the HD ones of Ellas TV's which by the way are not HD. They are only for those who live in Greece and they receive them over the satellite. Also the moves are much more natural than Ellas's which sometimes are really frustrating especially when I watch soccer. I think that the technology is not ready yet for this kind of broadcasting. In some countries maybe it is. But those countries have much faster internet and the broadcasters have built a very good infrastructure, unlike Ellas tv, to support their service. It will probably take 5 years before some of the broadcasters start to move from satellite to internet. Until then satellite is the best choice. I'll give them 2 more months to fix all the major channels, if they don't then i'll move to Tv plus. By the way, Trikalinos1 what does the back up of the channels show? Do you have Alpha Sat in North America? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trikalinos1 Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Hi guys. I live in Melbourne-Australia and I've been with ELLAS TV for almost 8 months. I don't understand why they focus on adding more channels rather than focus on improving the major channels: Mega Cosmos, Mega, Star International, Star, Alpha, Skai. The picture quality of those channels is very disappointing. The new channels they added have a good pic quality and they also improved the quality of all the OTE channels. So can someone explain to me why they care more about these channels rather than care about the Major Greek channels? It doesn't make sense. The majority of Greek people is interested in the major Greek channels and this is why they go with their service. They good think is that the channels don't freeze like they used to before. I hope this won't change. My friend has TV PLUS (direct satellite tv provider) and the pic quality of all the channels is AMAZING. It is what we call digital image. It's better than the HD ones of Ellas TV's which by the way are not HD. They are only for those who live in Greece and they receive them over the satellite. Also the moves are much more natural than Ellas's which sometimes are really frustrating especially when I watch soccer. I think that the technology is not ready yet for this kind of broadcasting. In some countries maybe it is. But those countries have much faster internet and the broadcasters have built a very good infrastructure, unlike Ellas tv, to support their service. It will probably take 5 years before some of the broadcasters start to move from satellite to internet. Until then satellite is the best choice. I'll give them 2 more months to fix all the major channels, if they don't then i'll move to Tv plus. By the way, Trikalinos1 what does the back up of the channels show? Do you have Alpha Sat in North America? Hi Himaros I hope all is well down under:) I have been an Ellas TV customer for the last 7 months and i do agree that during these months pic quality for some of the channels has gone down and for some others has gotten better. Mega Cosmos and Star International used to have way better picture quality but it seems that whatever changes they made to the transmitter or the encoder resulted to losing the pic quality these channels used to have. All the new channels have great quality compared to the older ones. All the HD, the OTE channels, the new documentary channels and some of the local channels have great pic quality compared to the older ones like Ant1, Mega, Star,etc. Even Vouli and EDT have better quality than the major Greek channels. Like I mentioned before it may have to do with new encoders or transmitter or whatever they use to pass the pic from Greece to USA or Australia. I think they are going to be making some additional changes to the nova channels similar to the changes they made for the OTE channels. The back up channels show better pic quality from the non back up ones. For example the Ant1 back has better quality than the on back up Ant1. Alpha Sat not here yet but they are planning on adding it soon. Overall I am happy to have a platform that shows all the major greek channels including all sports channels that currently broadcast in Greece. The satellite providers here are expensive and for the cost of $40 per month you can only see 3-4 channels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyros Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Are all those channels working. I know Alpha Sat, Sparti, some of those thessaloniki channels have been either coming soon or down since June. I haven't rebooted my box yet but will today to find out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trikalinos1 Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Are all those channels working. I know Alpha Sat, Sparti, some of those thessaloniki channels have been either coming soon or down since June. I haven't rebooted my box yet but will today to find out. No yet. If you reboot you are going to see the new documentary channels plus better quality regarding ote cinema and sports channels. You may want to upgrade the firmware to the newest version so you can record shows by using a USB stick or external hard drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyros Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 The ipad app has been down since ios7. Hopefully they issue an update soon. The box is working good. Looks like they rotated the channels again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trikalinos1 Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Made some changes on the channel list and testing catch up as well. It works for some channels right now. You can use catch up by selecting EPG from remote and then select the catch up channels that range above 2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trikalinos1 Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 You may want to use an Ethernet cable cat 5e or cat 6 when you connect the box to a rooter directly. The one that comes with the set top box is cat 5 and these types of Ethernet cables have less performance. Also you may want to buy a good mini HDMI cable instead of using the one included with the set top box. Just by following the above I saw improvement to image quality especially on the HD channels and only after changing the image settings of the set top box to 1080i Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trikalinos1 Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 (edited) Alpha Sat on Ellas Tv as well. So for $40 someone can watch the below channels compared to $40 plus someone spends to watch only 3 major greek networks with Dish. So $10 per channel on dish vs $1 plus couple quarters per channel on ellas tv. Mega Mega cosmos Mega Delayed Ant1 Ant1 Europe Ant1 Delayed Skai Skai Delayed Star Star International Star Delayed Alpha Alpha Sat Alpha Delayed DT Vouli Makedonia TV Kontra TV 4E Art Attica Star Kentrikis Kriti TV Epirus TV Extra 3 Epsilon TV 100 Blue Sky Zoom Edited November 2, 2013 by trikalinos1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCDuss Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Hello everyone ! I live in France and i can not find a way to watch the matches of the Super League . So, i have two questions , may be you could help me . 1. Is Ellas TV works in France ? 2. Are that there's a "pack" that contains NovaSports ? Thank you for your answers , and sorry for my bad English ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttentelh Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 For those of us that lost the Nova channels at ellas tv platform, note that arenasport 4 broadcast the greek championship game every weekend , in Serbian language though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trikalinos1 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 I agree with your comments about arena sports but only couple games are broadcasted. Last weekend they broadcasted the panathinaikos game live but not the olympiakos one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellasg7 Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 I agree with your comments about arena sports but only couple games are broadcasted. Last weekend they broadcasted the panathinaikos game live but not the olympiakos one. I know this is late but I am in Toronto and have ellas tv, and really desperately want the nova channels back. when I purchased the box from a store here in Toronto about a month ago the people said that novasports is coming back. So yesterday I called the offices which are located in Chicago Im pretty sure and asked them about the nova channels, and they said yes that ellas tv got the rights again for the nova channels and they should be on next week. Idk if you guise have heard anything about it but if you have pleaseeeeeee say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greekstream Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 (edited) Is ELLAS TV closing down ? apparently do not have the rights !!!!! public records here http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/2lmy4gv2k/new-york-eastern-district-court/ellas-tv-inc-et-al-v-titan-television-llc-et-al/ I will loose my Novasports :( Edited March 4, 2016 by greekstream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trikalinos1 Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Big deal....!!!!!tons of cheaper opportunities out there....and much better 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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