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Originally Posted by Anypermitedroute
Before anyone suggest oh “its waste of bandwidth” or” I thinks it’s waste of money I don’t want VM getting it”, firstly Bandwidth shouldn’t be a problem and secondly I am looking for the opportunity at least like Asian pack
I remember back in the days of old analogue cable of getting foreign channels from the likes of Sat 1 Germany to Rai Uno in Italy. We forget in this country that is a huge number of European based people along with Asian communities and 2nd language speakers that would like to get something a little more optionwise than American based. For example in Germany they have a lot of home grown items like Schlag Dem Rab (which I believe was then remade as beat the celebrity in UK) as well as a lot of German movies (no not those  ).
When I was younger it help me to learn my German watching Knightrider / A – Team on Sat Eins and I think it would really help us in this country to embrace a little more about culture and languages if we also have these European channels like we did before, I think this is something we lost when we went digital. I am aware the you could answer “oh you get a satellite or stream these” and yes I do for the latter but I would like the option on Virgin, it would certainly allow a bit more closer cohesion with our European friends and help to breakdown cultural barriers, no this isn’t a political statement but in comparison to our European neighbours our grasp of 2nd languages and culture is poor in general IMO.
Other than TV5, Euronews and the loss of Cinemoi all we have is Asian in the “foreign section” so we are bit lean
anyway thanks for reading and welcome your views |
We did have three Europe channels on Telewest when my area want Cable in 1995 here in Scotland before they launch Digital TV in 1999.
Sat 1
Rai Uno
RTL