Living in the jungle or the jungle fringe in Sarawak can be exciting, if your abode is equipped with a large satellite dish.After all, the channels available are not restricted to the ones available on Astro.
Just move around the dish and you may even get all the channels on subscription available in the US and Japan.For Joe and James who live in a spatial double-storey house in Kampung Pasai, about 50km from Sibu town, the satellite dish is their only form of entertainment.
"The children can watch Spongebob talking in Indonesian language and we can watch movies from all over the world.
"We got ours cheap. For a few hundred Ringgit, we have this dish which we have to manually tune," said James who is an Iban as he showed us how to adjust the dish.Located by the fence, the dish is placed on a pole."
If we want to watch, say, movies from the US, we have to move the dish facing a certain angle and if the elder ones want to watch Indonesian movies, someone has to readjust the dish.
"James who declined to give his full name said for an additional RM1,000, one could get a dish which can be controlled by a remote control."Just press the remote control from the comfort of your living room, but we are quite contented with this one," said Joe.
However, his only complaint is he could not watch NTV7 and 8TV no matter how the dish is adjusted. "They say the two channels are good, but with bad reception using the ordinary antenna, looks like we will never get to watch," said Joe.
Most of the houses in Sarawak are equipped with such dishes.Even the most dilapidated house would have a dish proudly standing on the roof.
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Isn't that illegal?
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