Originally Posted by
Sqwak7700
-The TV comes from the phone line, so the picture quality is horrendous. Its like watching videos on Youtube, that is the only thing I can compare it to.
You need to get that looked at. It should be more or less DVD quality.
Originally Posted by
Sqwak7700
-The channels suck. If you showed HK HBO to an HBO executive in the states he would barf. The movies are really old and they are edited. It is a really weird editing though, not just for skin. Curse-words are edited and they don't have the cutting-edge programming you get from state-side HBO.
Blame the fact that the HK market isn't big enough to get a dedicated feed so we have to share one with Singapore and conform to their censorship standards.
Originally Posted by
Sqwak7700
-This means that the internet is also squite slow. Somewhere between Dial-up and DSL in the states.
Again you need to get that looked at - it sounds like you have some dodgy cabling in your building. I get 6MB/s download speeds from my Netvigator pretty consistently.
Originally Posted by
Sqwak7700
You won't get cable-modem speeds because coax does not exist here, so cable and cable modem don't exist either!
That's just plain wrong.
http://www.cabletv.com.hk and their internet company
http://www.i-cable.com provide exactly that across (I think) about 80% of the population.