All I had to buy was the card for my PC.Anime Central
I finally got satellite TV working on my computer, through the awesome MythTV. It was delayed for a couple of months due to a bug in the driver but that's now been fixed. While I was setting it up, I noticed a new channel which launched on Sky just a week ago. Anime Central! I watched Full Metal Alchemist for the first time tonight. They're even showing GITS: SAC every night at 10:30pm. The channel only broadcasts from 9pm to 6am but that's not a problem for me because MythTV gives me Sky+ powers. Did I mention that I get this for free? All I had to buy was the card for my PC.
All I had to buy was the card for my PC.
I think it's Sky only, I'm afraid. I use Virgin for my net but I hear the TV service is hellishly unreliable. Luckily there was a satellite dish waiting for me when I moved into this flat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnimeCentral
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnimeCentral
Last edited by Chewi on Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Yeah it's worse than NTL. You have to reboot ya top box everyday pratically. And the TV guide doesn't update itself properly. Ed originally wanted to go with Sky, but it means we'd have to have a BT phone line, which we don't have, which costs £125 to put in. So we went with Vigin instead. 3 for £30, plus a few extras in the works too.
EDIT:After reading that artical on Wiki though, I think Chart Show Channels must be offereing this Virgin soon, coz Virgin already have all the Chart Show Channels anyway. These channels take longer to broadcast on cable rather than satellite, obviously. But I hate Virgin TV! They took away my Brainiac from me!
EDIT:After reading that artical on Wiki though, I think Chart Show Channels must be offereing this Virgin soon, coz Virgin already have all the Chart Show Channels anyway. These channels take longer to broadcast on cable rather than satellite, obviously. But I hate Virgin TV! They took away my Brainiac from me!
Last edited by Squirrel on Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I wonder if it's just the service or the box that's dodgy. Probably the service. If you go with Sky's freesat option then you only have to make a one-off payment for the equipment and you don't have to connect it to a BT phone line. I'm basically using freesat myself but I'm not even using their equipment, just a card in my PC and the dish that was already here. The only difference for me is that I can't watch certain channels like 4 and 5 because you need a Sky box with a viewing card to watch those. 4 and 5 in particular will be switching to free-to-air next year though and I'll be able to watch them then. But yeah, maybe you should check freesat out.
Dubbed. Though it seems like a good dub. .hack // Sign is the only subbed thing they've shown so far.
Last edited by Chewi on Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:34 am, edited 1 time in total.
I just assumed it wasn't ever dubbed. Then I thought maybe you were getting confused with a different .hack series. I looked it up on Wikipedia. First it says "The AnimeCentral broadcast is in Japanese with subtitles, rather than the English dubbed version" but it doesn't say why. Then it says "While the English language reception to .hack//Sign has been generally positive, it has received negative criticism from some sources as a result of the slow pacing and character-driven storyline." I guess that's why AnimeCentral went with the subbed version. I'm not sure how the dub managed to have that effect on it though.
