Which card?

[grahamd180]

! Hi guys,I am going to buy a viewing card for mainly Premiership football,can you give me your opinions on which to buy?Art,Digitalb seem to be the main contenders.Any info will be much appreciated.
Cheers
G

 

[wod]

art is a good option as it shows plenty of english premiership football usually 3-4 3pm kickoffs on sat and matches on other days the big plus is english commentry

digitalb shows a couple of matches at the weekend and also good for italian , german footie too. you also get the movie channels

if you get an art card make sure its the new card that includes the aljazeera sports channels as these show fa cup and league cup matches

i have both as i think its good value for money

 

[Leee]

nice avatar, Graham.
You must've been gutted last week.... :-bash we never got going !

 

[grahamd180]

Yes Leee,was totally devastated,but to reach the final of the UEFA cup was an achievement on its own!!!!
Still can't make my mind up on the card tho!!!
Cheers
G

 

[DSM]

When choosing a card for football coverage, when is the best time to buy? Before the new season starts, or does the card only get activated when you first use it? I'm new to all this as you can tell.;)

 

[manic01]

Art card starts counting down from when inserted in card reader for the first time.

 

[wod]

When choosing a card for football coverage, when is the best time to buy? Before the new season starts, or does the card only get activated when you first use it? I'm new to all this as you can tell.

the art cards are prepaid so you can buy one and leave it till august start of the new season

 

[Salty25]

dont the ART cards include movie channels?

 

[grahamd180]

So guys,which is the best?
G!

 

[wod]

art if you want more matches but the quality isn't so good on the art channels

buy one of the new carte art cards to get the two aljazeera sports channels and 5&6 sports channels

just get art to start with and then add any others after

 

[Salty25]

dont the ART cards include movie channels?

please will someone answer my questions, its been bugging me for yonks!

 

[jimbo]

The ART smartcard includes: ART Europe, ART Teenz Europe, ART Tarab, ART Movie, Nile Drama, LBC Europe, ART Sports 1, ART Sports 2, ART Sports 3/Champions 1, ART Sports 4/Champions 2, Canal Algerie, MBC Europe, ART Hekayat and Future International.



Digital Albania includes: DIGI PREMIERE (films less than one year old), DIGIT Alb5 (24 hour football / films), DIGIT Alb6 (24 Hour football / films), DIGIT Alb7 (24 Hour football / films) / after 22:00 Full x2 (adult movies), DIGIT ALB8 (24 hour films) / after 22:00 Full x3 (adult movies), CHANNEL X (adult movies 24 hours) and My Music Channel.

 

[Leee]

IMO the ALB card offers better value but....and it's a big but(t), for me I'd choose ART because I have a fixed dish with 3 LNBs and squeezing 16 east in would be an issue so I would not bother (for now)

 

[sapkan]

Do you guys know if the Albanian package would show the world cup games in English?

 

[jimbo]

I believe one channel is in English. I'm sure I've heard the Sky commentators on there.

 

[zooma]

Sky will not be broadcasting any world cup matches, BBC & ITV hold the rights as this is one the events that is ring fenced for FTA TV as per the uk goverment so i don't believe digitalb will be broadcasting in english.

 

[jimbo]

Sky will not be broadcasting any world cup matches, BBC & ITV hold the rights as this is one the events that is ring fenced for FTA TV as per the uk goverment so i don't believe digitalb will be broadcasting in english.

I don't think that's correct. Sky will be able to transmit England matches but will not have sole rights as they had with the Premiership live games in the season that's just ended.

 

[zooma]

Sky have never had rights to screen world cup final matches, they have only ever had rights for world cup & european chamionship qualifiers. The world cup, wimbledon & the olympics are some of the events that are not available to bid from pay tv in the uk.

 

[db188]

i have had a ART card since xmas and it has been great.i am a boro fan and art have only missed maybe a couple of games.the only problem is with Art sport 2.the audio is terrible it cracks and bangs but apart from that it is great.also you now get world cup(art 5 & 6) channels.on a match day you can also zap to other prem games if your team isn't playing.i would recommend this card and will be buying a new one for next season.
"WE ARE JUST A SMALL TOWN IN EUROPE" but at least we were at the final.what a season."come on the boro.regards db188.

 

[wod]

db188, remember to get the new art card with the extra aljazeera sports channels