請問在加州該如何才能看台灣電視台? - 海外工作

※ 引述《ellay (倩)》之銘言：
: 請問有沒有人知道在加州該如何看台灣電視台呢?
: 目前cable是使用comcast,但是頻道好多, 看來看去就是沒看到台灣的頻道.
: 是否要其他的cable廠才有嗎?
: 謝謝您!!
我最近看了一篇文章講到衛星電視的運作, 截錄一部分供你參考

Actually, you can technically get (steal) most satilite channels.
How it works is this: Amost all national/international TV channels
(probably not your local access) beam their TV signal up to a satilite,
where is bounced back down to your local cable TV company. The problem
is this, usually, there is only one channel on that signal.
That means that your cable comapany has several dozen satilite dishes,
one for each channel. With a satilite dish pointed in the right direction and
a decoder box from eBay, you got your channel.

Its great, because oftentimes, it is commercial free
(commercials are added locally). That means if you watch CNN,
you get to see the anchor persons bitch to their assistants/smoke/copulate
or whatever they do during commercial breaks. However, you only get the one
channel that your dish is pointed to, to change channels, you need a VERY good
idea where that particular satilite is, a signal meter, a GPS device,
and LOTS of patience.

"Satilite TV" as we often know it (DirectTV, DISH) work by recieving all
these separate satilite channels at their headquarters, re-encoding them,
and bouncing them up to their own satilites. With DirectTV and DISH,
every channel is on the same satilite, so you don't have to move the dish
to get a different channel, just decode a different part of the stream.

如果你買了設備, 就可以自己在家裡看免費的衛星電視
但是一個耳朵(dish) 只能對準一個方向, 所以只能看一台
如果你買了一些相關設備, 可以讓耳朵轉向, 就可以看別台
(我想轉台應該很麻煩, 因為驅動馬達讓耳朵轉向總是要等一會兒)

Cable, DirectTV, DishNetwork 都是有很多個dish在接收不同的衛星頻道
然後再加上廣告跟鎖碼, 然後傳送給收視戶
DirectTV, DishNetwork 所有的頻道都上傳到同一顆衛星
只要你繳錢, 就只需要一個dish, 對準一個方向, 就可以同時看很多頻道
Cable的話就直接cable傳送, 當然品質比較差

很多地方都有一些中文的頻道package可以訂閱
但是仔細看其實很多是垃圾頻道或是你沒興趣的

其實如果只想看幾台, 應該可以自己買個設備來看那些衛星頻道就好了
不用白花錢去訂閱所謂的中文頻道package

此外我前陣子在youtbe看到有人破解了DishNetwork
所以即使沒訂閱DishNetwork也可以輕鬆看DishNetwork的頻道

有意思的是
如果你沒付費看DishNetwork, 會常在螢幕上看到xxx免費贈送只要打電話索取
這時候千萬不要打電話去索取
因為付費收視戶看不到這項訊息
只有偷看的才看的到, 所以是個誘餌, 打電話過去就準備吃官司了

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