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A Home Cinema in Mauritius (part 5)

26 December 2005 By Avinash Meetoo 9 Comments

This is the last part of my ramblings about setting up a home cinema system. Today, I’ll talk about the necessity of subscribing to Satellite TV.

The local TV channels are state-owned and state-controlled in Mauritius. Therefore either (1) they are crap due to lack of creativity and/or guts or (2) they are politically-biased. You choose…

Basically, I don’t watch DVD all the time (I only watch a film, say, 1-2 times a week because of the kids. So, I personally need Satellite TV as I can’t stand the local channels. I can also add that the picture quality and the sound is better than average (but very far from what you have on a DVD).

In Mauritius, there are three competitors in this field, CanalSat, Parabole Maurice (of TPS fame) and DSTV.

I don’t know much about DSTV but I’ve been a subscriber of CanalSat and Parabole Maurice for more than one year now. I’ve just decided to cancel my subscription to CanalSat for two reasons (1) I can’t afford 2 satellite subscriptions and (2) I like Parabole Maurice more because of its dedicated English football channels.

I have many sport channels (among which Supersport 3, Eurosport, TPS Foot and TPS Star Direct) where all English football matches are shown.

I also have specific channels for cinema (in stereo only), entertainment, education, kids and news.

I pay Rs. 1334 monthly for Parabole Maurice. It’s expensive, I know…

Part one – Amplifier
Part two – Speakers
Part three – TV
Part four – DVD
Part five – Satellite

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  1. aadil says

    27 December 2005 at 03:35

    Football. Eww. ;)

  2. avinash says

    27 December 2005 at 19:54

    Yep! I “need” to watch every Liverpool match or else I don’t feel well… :-)

  3. aadil says

    28 December 2005 at 16:43

    Heh, I need to get unsober every day else I dont feel well. :p

  4. dave says

    27 June 2007 at 19:21

    hey,but now canalsat is offering premiership,ligue1(france),liga(spain),calcio (italy),CHAMPIONS LEAGUE.. in their smallest package of 499+vat…I think its great for us football fans..even if its in french…i get all for 500…i’d go for it!
    what u do when u wanna see Champions league?

  5. akash says

    20 December 2007 at 11:36

    i agree with ya as according to the latest 6 new sports channel will integrate parabole maurice in late 2008 namely mutv, chealsy tv, arsenal tv, liverpool tv ,espn sports and canal+ sport.

  6. rocky says

    12 October 2008 at 19:39

    am thinking to cancel my subscription only because i cannot receive the hotshow as i pay a fortune for that.AS a private TV there must be no restrictions

  7. ugo says

    15 March 2009 at 22:25

    hi i read this blog and i’m a great fan of home cinemas.for my point of view canalsat is much better, i changed for the new decoder recently without the hd option and i’m using the digital coaxial out for my 5.1 amplifier. it sounds good using prologic 2 but i heard that the hd channels are in dolby digital but 350 rp i think is too expensive! i receive every fa premier league matches but i must agree that watching a football watch with english commentators is another thing….

  8. Modally says

    24 October 2019 at 18:38

    People in Mauritius think they have a home cinema. A TV and a dolby system does not make a home cinema. They are being fooled by the providers and charged enormous sums of money. If the people of Mauritius do not know what is a cinema, then good luck to them.

  9. Avinash Meetoo says

    25 October 2019 at 07:23

    I guess different people have different level of expectations. I don’t know if you noticed (but you surely did), this post was written 14 years ago. Things have changed since then.

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