Howard Winter wrote:
> Marcel,
> 
> On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:12:33 -0700, Marcel Birthelmer wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi all,
>>in light of the upcoming 2006 soccer world cup (and the recent start of 
>>the '05/'06 bundesliga season), this displaced German was wondering if 
>>anyone has any experience receiving european satellite TV in the US. 
>>I've done some searching online and found a decent overview of satellite 
>>information at http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/ksv/satfaq.html , but no 
>>information on receiving signals from, say, Astra1 stateside. Any ideas?
> 
> 
> I think you'd have very little chance of success - even on the East coast of the USA you'd be *well* outside 
> the footprint, and any signal that does go that way is going to be really weak.  Have you investigated whether 
> it would be available on the Internet?
> 
> Cheers,
> Howard Winter
> St.Albans, England
> 
> 

I would love for there to be an internet solution, but it really doesn't 
seem like anyone is investing in a webcast infrastructure. Also, I'm not 
sure if it would allow live broadcasts anyway. And I know that DirecTV 
and Dish do have their pay-$5000-per-month-for-this-channel european 
sports programs, but I don't want to commit to something like that.
Thanks for the input, though.
- Marcel
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