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For the record:
I wrote, in a earlier post, that the GMM Grammy Euro 2012 broadcast doesn’t offer English-language commentary.
But it does.
Simply click the button labeled “audio,” near the bottom of the remote*, two or three times to alternate between Thai and English.
Thanks to @tonygjordan for the tip.
(*The remote and AV cables are tucked under a flap in the GMM Grammy satellite box. I missed seeing these items at first.)
To follow up on my earlier post: I have a story today at the WSJ‘s Southeast Asia Real Time blog that sums up the situation.
The UEFA Euro 2012 football tournament in Poland and Ukraine kicked off Friday. In the run-up to the kickoff, though, the discussion among many fans in soccer-mad Thailand had nothing to do with who might win the competition, regarded by many as the world’s most important football tournament after the World Cup.
Rather, much of the chatter online was about whether subscribers to Thailand’s biggest cable TV provider, TrueVisions, would even be able to watch the matches at home.
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The Bangkok Post reports today:
Cable television operator TrueVisions has failed to resolve its dispute with Euro 2012 Football Championship broadcast rights holder GMM Grammy.
About 2 million True subscribers saw Euro 2012 broadcasts from Channel 3, Channel 5 and Modernine TV cancelled last night during the tournament’s opening match between Poland and Greece at 11pm, and again for Russia versus the Czech Republic at 1:45am this morning.
The matches could be seen on terrestrial television but True blocked those stations’ broadcasts through its cable and satellite platforms. True showed alternative programmes instead.
We’re TrueVisions subscribers but got the GMM Grammy satellite box up and running prior to kickoff, thankfully. As I Tweeted on Thurs.:
1. #Euro2012 fans in Thailand: Can confirm GMM Grammy box works w/ True. Swap out box, coax, AV cables, HDMI. Box is ~THB 1500 at 7-11.
— Newley Purnell (@newley) June 7, 2012
2. Technical assistance by @Anasuya. Still unclear if will have HD and English commentary, but we have lift off for pics and sound.
— Newley Purnell (@newley) June 7, 2012
Richard Barrow also has a tutorial, if you’d like to implement a similar setup.
Indeed, it turns out there’s no English language commentary or HD service. But the picture is decent, for standard definition.
More soon on this topic.
I'm Newley Purnell, an American journalist whose work has run in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and more.
I was based in Bangkok for six years and am now a Gray International Reporting Fellow pursuing my MA in business and economics journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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