Looting The Holy Land on Al Jazeera with DETV.

When I get home every night, its already way past midnight. Most of the tv programmes, whether its dramas or worst, news - already over. I always miss all the primetime shows and programmes; but recently, after using the DETV for a month now, I found it very useful!

I wanted to check out this programme on Al Jazeera. It was 'Looting The Holy Land'. The programme was to be aired at 10pm; by the time I got home, it was already 1am unfortunately. But thankfully enough, I have DETV - and I got to click on the programme that was aired at 10pm!!!! How niceee!!! =)

So, what is 'Looting The Holy Land' about?

It is a documentary on the way archaeological materials are being used in Israel. Since 1967 countless artifacts have been unearthed and removed from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Many are displayed in Israeli museums and private collections, while others are sold to tourists. For Israel, archeology has been a key tool in buttressing its territorial claims to historic Palestine. Archeological findings are used to assert ownership and to rename the territories they occupy.

Catching it on DETV's Al Jazeera English when I missed it by a whole 3 hours... thats truly priceless!!! =)

What other channels do I catch on DETV??? I also follow channel 260 a lot!!! =)

See... channel 260!!!

The programme "I Love Watching Movie" is a pretty awesome programme - it showcases some of the latest and newest movies to be watched.

A scene from IP MAN - when they were promoting The Legend of Chen Zhen. =)

There's also another channel that I catch a lot, the Channel 115! Recently I've been having some good laughs at night watching Let's Have A Date - it is basically a dating game show, with plenty of pretty ladies, and of course, plenty of laughter too!!!

Hahahahaha... that'll be what I'm gonna watch in awhile...

On top of that, since I couldnt make it to the SHANGHAI EXPO 2010, I decided that I'm not going to miss it completely. Here I am - I just subscribed to the Window Of The World menu - and VOILA!!! I got SHANGHAI EXPO 2010 on my TV right now!!!

Okay - excuse me while I go enjoy my show... Gniteeezzz!!! =P

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DETV - Malaysia's IPTV service.

My mum celebrated her birthday earlier this month!!! =)

I was one of the bloggers selected to test out the DETV decoder. And the first person whom I thought of when I got it was my mum! She was always complaining that Astro does not have enough interesting programs for her to watch, or rather half the time I’m hogging Astro for my sports channels.

Before I decide to show my mum what the DETV can do, let me try it out first in my room on my awesome LG 32” LCD TV….

The box that contained the DETV decoder and accessories…

Inside the box, it had the network cable, and then the other S-Video cable and then the wireless antenna too. I was wondering what it was for… but I’ll show you in a bit.

Ok… all set up already. I didn’t need the network cable as my whole house is WiFi wired – and guess what, the wireless antenna is for WIFI!!! *woots* No need to pull any cable…

You can see that the DETV is really very compact – this is how small the DETV look like, its about same size as my sister’s doggie Mindy – and definitely lighter than her too!

After that, I plugged it on to the TV. And this is it – Malaysia’s first IPTV service. This is what I call entertainment-on-demand.

But then I had a little problem. Although I love to watch my dramas, movies and programmes in various Chinese dialects, I really had no idea about READING them. The interface on the main menu was very simple – BUT then… the banana me just couldn’t make up the words.

Thankfully I found the LANGUAGE button! Yeyyyy……. =P

One click of the button and the whole menu is in English now!!!

Right now I can choose from the menu easily – and watch my favourite Chinese channels if I want to. Mmmm now I’m thinkin if I am still gonna pass this DETV to my mum… hehe LOL.

One of the channels that I watched when I was in Beijing 2 months back was BEIJING TV. Basically it is a combination of news, financial talks, and the local Beijing culture as well. If you look at the navigation bar, there are a lot of other channels too – including the CCTV channels!

I think the sister will love this! Hunan TV World – presenting the Chinese local sitcoms and travel programmes!

…and then there are some other channels as well – such as TVS channel. It covers a wide array of news and information of Guangdong province.

Back to Beijing again… the Tianjin TV International channel showcases a lot of China culture and heritage too! This would be Dad’s favourite!!!

Amongst the channels also include Al-Jazeera!!!

The next section of the Main Menu that I checked out was the DVD Buffet. This would be a lot more specific – and it features dramas… sitcoms… mostly those shows that is like ‘multiple episodes’ wan ler…

See… there are like 5 main parts – and then the New and Special part as well!

Drama Paradise and Beautiful Life features a lot of Chinese dramas. And then there was one of the channels that caught my eye…

It was the Fun Wonderland section!!! It had some really funny cartoons – Chinese based of course. I loved it!!! =) If you enjoy watching Shin Chan and Doraemon in Chinese – then I believe you’ll be hogging this channel!

I clicked on Panda Paradise…..

Okay that’s all for now so far – I’m going to end the blog post here first, gonna go watch Panda Paradise… until then…

I think mummy would have to wait for the DETV. Wait til I finish watching all 50 episodes of Panda Paradise first ok!

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