Mio TV

Mio TV. By Singtel. It's the latest(and suckiest) set-top box in Singapore. StarHub Cable is really much better. That's why they call it SCV - Starhub Cable Vision. It used to be called "Singapore Cable Vision" but that was last time. 

Now, Mio TV came out in 2007. Till now, it is still no good. Only got it in March this year. And, I can say that the channels really suck. They have crap news channels and really bad channels. Whenever I actually turn on Mio TV, I immediately go to the Free-To-Air channels. 

On Mio, the only 2 good non-FTA channels are KBS World and Granada TV. And you can find both of them on Starhub. Starhub's channels are really really good. Recently, Starhub changed the channel numbers to group them according to genre. At first, I thought it really wasn't gonna be good. But now, 3 months in, it's quite useful. I can easily know which groups to stay away from. The 300-399 group which is Kids, 600-699 group which is Movies(I keep away because I barely have any movie channels. And, the 800-899 group which is Chinese. I hast no Chinese channels and the only channels I go to in that group are 897 - Playin' TV and 899 - Interactive TV. Interactive TV is really useful. Use it for Weather and Movie Listings.

The recent 2010 FIFA World Cup. It cost about $72 for early bird subscription and $90 for subscriptions after 31st May. Why was it so high? Well, because SingTel secured the right to air the Barclays Premier League and the UEFA Champions League on their MioTV. You gotta admit, the Singaporean world would be much better if SingTel didn't make a pay-TV service in the first place. 

Having the Premier League being broadcasted on MioTV only raised the cost of living for Singaporeans. I mean, we had to get another set-top box. Go through the complications of setting up MioTV in our homes. Sometimes the signal really sucks. Even MioTV's FTA broadcasts are many seconds behind Starhub's. I have no idea as to why. Starhub uses cable to transmit and SingTel uses phone lines to transmit. In other words, no phone line/cut phone line/crappy phone line=Crappy Mio signal.

Football so far. The season has just about started. But before that, there was the FA Community Shield which Man United won(YES!!!). Occasionally, the images would flicker. On Starhub, it never flickers. This is a sign. It's very specific. It reads..."Don't transmit through phone lines"... whoa double rainbow so intense! Yes, flick flick flick. Just flick through the yellow flick road. *One of those end-singing-part-music-thingys-here*

So, later(at time of post), I'm gonna watch Man Utd v Newcastle Utd at 3am on MioTV. I hope that it will be a good experience and that SingTel (eventually) fix the many many flickers problem. SingTel to me is only good for phones because I can use 0.facebook.com with it. Haha. So, on 20/8/2010, I'm gonna write and post a blog post about the YOG. Yeah, in my own country. FTW! In other words, 20/8/2010 means 20th August 2010 or August 20th 2010. Oh,and vote in my poll. :) ***Does Criss Angel style eating of camera except this time eating laptop***

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