Dear Community,
I've had a TV for a long time, but so far I've only streamed films / series via Netflix or laptop (Joyn etc).
But now I would like to watch cable TV as well. What do I have to consider? Does it cost to watch TV via cable connection?
For rent or property?
Rental apartment
Free of charge with the SAT dish. TV socket?
Depending on the provider and the package that you use, costs extra. For some, however, it is included in the price of the Internet.
Connection is already available, only the cable is missing.
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Is there a telephone connection already in the apartment?
If you live for rent, your landlord has a supply contract, like with water, with a certain provider.
Do you know this then you sign up there to make a contract.
Usually there's a basic service with the public broadcasters in HD and a few private ones in SD for around 10 euro, radio included.
If you want all channels in HD it costs about ten more. Then you either get a receiver from the provider or a smart card for your TV.
For extravagant international channels and special pay-to-view offers, there are also numerous extra packages to book for an additional charge.
Well the four euro fifty for the cable you will have!
Just a can? There's certainly a cable that only needs to be connected to the distributor
You also have to be connected to a cable network, if there's no cable TV connection socket in the apartment then it is not the case.
If you have one in the apartment, it may be that the landlord has signed a TV contract with the provider and settles the costs via the ancillary costs, then connect the TV with an antenna cable to the socket, select the digital cable tuner and start a channel search.
If there's a connection socket in the apartment and this is not activated, you have to conclude a contract for TV with the cable operator, which costs around 20 euro per month.
"Usually there's a basic service with the public broadcasters in HD and a few private ones in SD for around 10 euro, including radio."
Where did that come from, there's no basic service for 10 euro, if the connection is not included in the additional costs, a contract for the TV connection must be concluded, which costs around 20 euro a month, then around 60 digital channels are without further Costs to receive, but the private ones in HD are encrypted and have to be booked separately, which costs EUR 3.99 in the Vodafone network and EUR 5 per month in other networks.
A smart card for the TV does not help at all, a CI + module provider is also required, which then costs 79 euro, or 3 euro a month for rent.
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"If you live for rent, your landlord has a supply contract, like with water, with a certain provider.
Do you know this then you sign up there to make a contract. "
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If the landlord has a contract with the provider then you don't have to sign a contract with the provider because the landlord bills him for the ancillary costs, if he does not have a contract then the tenant must conclude a contract for the TV connection himself.
Who can read has a clear advantage.
I wrote that you have to make a contract!
By basic service I meant the smallest offer from the cable provider.
Most rental companies already have a connection with a specific cable provider. Only the connection is only activated when the tenant makes his own contract with the provider.
So if a house with 20 parties wants cable TV, it comes from the cable socket of a single provider. You can't choose. Because the landlord has put the supply of the house in the hands of a provider.
And yes, of course, a smart card only works in a receiver or the CI module.
The latter costs 10 euro a month from my provider.
For the former, I didn't write anything about prices because these are also different due to rent or purchase.
All of these prices are around because everyone is asking for different offers. So no matter what you calculate here, at least I put an approximately in front of my 10 euro. So an estimate and not a fixed sum!
Especially since the question and therefore my answer were only about general things.
Have a good time.
* So if a house with 20 parties wants to watch cable TV, it comes from the cable socket of a single provider. You can't choose. Because the landlord has put the supply of the house in the hands of a provider "
Wrong, even the landlord can only choose the cable operator who provides the area with cable services, that's always only one.
"I wrote that you have to make a contract!"
If you do not have to sign a contract with the cable network operator for TV connections in your house, the tenant no longer has to conclude a contract, he can watch all unencrypted channels at no additional cost, only subscription channels such as SKY or the private ones in HD are chargeable!
"By basic service I meant the smallest offer from the cable provider"
Nope, the complete offer is available, the rest are subscription channels that are chargeable everywhere, for example with satellite and IPTV and also DVB-T2
"Those who can read have a clear advantage."
You should stick to that yourself, and your answer and comment can't be surpassed in terms of false information and half-knowledge.
In contrast to you, I do not play myself here and accuse the other party of false information and ignorance.
Instead, I report what I know from my own experience.
But I think there are some points where we're both right about it, even though there are differences.
So if you were willing to admit that my words have a true core instead of just arguing against them bluntly in order to make you feel better, I could perhaps contribute something illuminating.
I would like to know whether you are talking about the West German or the East German part of the country?
Because apparently the dog is buried here.
There he is no longer buried, Pyur who supply a large part of East Germany are now handling it just like Vodafone now in the rest of Germany, which has taken over Kabel Deutschland and Unitymedia. Kabel Deutschland had also supplied many areas in East Germany and handled it in the same way as in West Germany, Vodafone supplies Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Brandenburg in addition to Pyur and there's and has never been a difference between West and East because everything has been standardized.
It may be that you have old contracts, or your knowledge is out of date, with new contracts, which is what the question is about, your details are not correct, Pyur is only a little more expensive than Vodafone, because it is 2 euro more CI + module is concerned, the prices for TV connections are almost identical, and when it comes to cable connections, contracts for multiple connections between the landlord and the cable network operator or individual contracts between the tenants, there have long been no differences between the providers, and a difference between West and East Germany hasn't been around for a long time. That is also the reason why more and more housing associations in the eastern part are terminating the contracts with the cable network operators and switching to satellite supply of their residential complex with their own satellite to cable head-end stations, which is all much cheaper than reception via a cable network operator, and that is now Vodafone and Pyur parts of the business in almost all of Germany because a monopoly has arisen that also makes the prices almost uniform.
Yes, the connection is already available.
"It may be that you have old contracts or that your knowledge is out of date"
It seems to you to find it really difficult to apologize for pulled up, baseless accusations, "false information, ignorance" knowing that I might be right after all.
And you can judge for yourself whether a contract that was created 5 years ago is old.
But now in the matter it looks a little different here in Leipzig than you described. I lived first with the LWB, the municipal housing provider, then with the VLW and now the contact, which are both cooperatives, for rent.
In all cases, the landlord has often signed a multi-year contract with the former Kabel Deutschland, now Vodafone, and Primacomm, now Pyuer.
The landlord is free to choose between the two monopolists. Not to the tenant.
Now comes the whole point. Despite these existing contracts, the can is dead. In return, none of the three major landlords deduct anything from the ancillary costs. The tenant has to take care of that himself.
And as far as my contract is concerned, the basic offer cost 9.90 at the time. It is now 11.99. In addition, the smart card with a module for another ten per month.
Of course, I doubt whether the prices and offers still exist, but nothing has changed in terms of actually getting the cable connection.
You can also see a lot more for a fee via the telephone provider!
