answered about 16 months ago by grubby
with xsat you get a pretty good spread of english language channels from a philipino satellite:
BBC World, CNN, Discovery, Discover T&L, National Geographic, ESPN, Star sports, nickelodeon, animal planet, HBO, as well as some australian stuff and a few philipino channels.
On the plus side is, after the initial outlay for head and dish (~$80), you buy cards for 50,000 dong that can last up to 3 months.
On the down side is that the cards always seem to expire 5 minutes before a 2am Champions League match, and the can flick on and off unpredictably.
Cable in Hanoi is more reliable, but there are fewer channels and they tend to have vietnamese subtitles. Last I heard it was 50,000 Dong a month.
In short, Vietnam has a good variety of international tv options for not very much money. A lot of is bowdlerized for asian consumption, however.
answered about 16 months ago by Chunnie
Strongly recommend the local cable instead of the Filipino satellite. It nearly drove us crazy because you need to constantly change the TV card and sometimes, we are told that there is no supply which left us "TV-less" for a few days! Now, we are using both the cable and satellite so it's much better. For cable, there is a once-off subscription of about VND 300,000 followed by monthly subscription of VND 50,000.
