 Cuban TV
DS wrote:
> We have just returned from a week in Cuba and I'm still
> puzzling that the hotel TV carried A&E, TNT, WTBS and CNN. How does this
> stuff come in? Is it bootlegged off the satellite or what? The hotel was
> the Paradisis Rio De Oro near Holguin which is a five star property operated
> in a joint venture arrangement by a big and ethical Spanish hotel firm with
> many hotels in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. I doubt they would
> steal the signals. Anybody know the details?
> (There also are three Chinese channels.)
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Steal the signals? Why...they're flying around all over the place for
free. Just remember, and this is important in all aspects of travel,
that what is law in one place doesn't mean it is law in another. Just
because in the USA or Canada, there is a law forcing someone to pay one
somebody for receiving a signal doesn't mean the rest of the world pays
attention to it one way or another.
We were in Belize recently and the gov't run cable system is all based
on US Satellite feeds. Cost to the average Belizean is $5/month US.
Somehow I doubt that the government is shipping that money out of the
country.
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