</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by P Debono:Don't believe that rubbish about English movies as<br />it will step on Murdoch toes in Australia. The only way they can get English movies is if they buy them direct of Optus like TARBS did in the TARBS days.<br />Now lets see, Lets say Select TV buys the Optus Movie channels here in OZ how are they going to uplink them to Pas 8??? They will have to pay someone uplink fees as they don't own any uplink facilities like UBI does.<br />Now don't tell me they will get Cinemax or HBO as that is CRAP too. [/QB]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">If i remember correctly the whole thing was going to be run via Hong Kong or was it Taiwan? anyway fibre is cheap there.<br /><br />as for movies, Turner and MGM are available everywhere (yeah because they are crap!)<br /><br />something you may not be aware of all the C1 channels can be received in Hawaii on 1.2m dish where it can be fed on a cheap fibre link to the mainland<br /><br />and you thought they put the spot beam over Hawaii so Unlce Rupert could watch his Foxtel on Holiday?