Does anyone know where one can purchase the dish network satellite system which offers zee, zee gold, b4u, sony ent tv, in canada? anyone know of any dealers in ottawa and/or toronto ?? I have quite a few friends interested in getting this as right now we have to be content with ATN and that is a reasonably crap channel...
any help would be appreciated....

Fraid ur only hope is contacting ppl in the USA As Canada doesnt allow Dish to enter the market. know of many ppl who have friends and family add receivers under their name and just buy the equipment from here... and just hook it up and have some1 in the US activate it........

can't u get those channels from Digital Cable?

_rb nope.. Rogers Digital Cable is one piece of shit and the only Desi channel you can subscribe to is ATN ( Indian I mean)... However I did get the news that ZEE & STAR may expand their network to cover Canada also... (wonder when that will be).

I hope this news comes true... atn sucks..... well i am in the process of finding out some deals on dish network. I was told if u buy multiple recivers there are some dealers who can make arrangements for you..... i guess it is better to wait and find out whether star tv will be part of the dish network line up......

Hello,

It is very very easy to get the Dish Network and it's channels in Canada (infact, even DirecTV is available)

There are plenty of ads for these in Indian / Desi papers available at grocery stores and religious places alongwith many ads in PennySaver (in the west end)

I have got DishNetwork and I see ZEE, Z Gold, B4U, Sony and TV Asia. Add to it PPV Cricket that I see + one PPV Movie channel. I don't really watch Rogers Cable apart from 11 pm news and 11:35 pm Jay Leno Show.

STAR in USA/Canada:

I called them up recently and they still say the same thing. We are in the process of getting it.... since last 2 yrs now. Not much happening on this front.



Edited By sunish on July 29 2002 at 13:46

and around how much is the cost of it??

:nervous: oh my friend told me who lives in Hamilton that she was trying Rogers free offer to try the Digital channels for 2 months and she got some channels other than ATN :vsneaky:

I work for Rogers Cable in the their repair department and the offer you are talking about _rb_ is tha of the digital box and the new digital channels that Rogers launched last year....our **STUPID** give the impression that we are offering all digital channels free. Rogers offers: ATN/ZEE, ATN/Alpha Punjabi, ATN/B4U and Sur Sagar.

ahh thats what she was saying :doze:

Rogers also has a ATN Tamil channel........ these channels are not included in the free 2 month preview as urbanlegend said.

Thanks filmibuff

I was actually only mentioning the ones which had hinidi programs or movies on them. So in total the following is what Rogers offers:

ATN/Zee Programming
ATN/Tamil
ATN/B4U Hindi Movies
ATN Tamil
Alpha Punjabi Channel
Sur Sagar TV
Tamil Vision

ok cool,

but how much would this Dish Network cost in canada?

i believe the dish costs around 400 bucks and the 5 channels are $50 a month now i am unsure if these are US dollars or canadian....... pls confirm

ok i found out it would cost $50 US/MONTH, plus the receiver would cost $100US..and you would also have to get the dish...

now here's the thing - since we're in canada, legally we can't get it

so how would the people that you mentioned in the classified ads pay for it??

would they want a one-time or the same fees as Dish?