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Originally Posted by steadyboy
Sorry to mislead you guys, but sky box is a colloquial terms we British use to describe the receiver used to collect the signals that Rupert Murdoch's company - Sky transmits around the world. I wondered if I could bring that with me so that I could continue to enjoy all my settings/favourites etc. My thinking was that as Japan is in a diffent hemisphere would the satellites' direction allow/prevent it? I didn't think that Japan was in any way a backward nation.
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No you couldn't bring it over, as you need to be hooked up to the network providing the satellite feed, which in your case is stuck back in the UK.
Sky is also available in Australia and New Zealand, but you can't take the decoder from one country to the other, for the same reasons.
Japan has it's own version - when you are apartment hunting you'll often see "BS" and "CS" everywhere, this means that the apartment blocks are cabled up for cable TV. You can also call up satellite TV companies, and they'll bring in their own decoders, and install mini satellite dishes on your balcony.
With these you'll be able to subscribe to all the usual suspects - Discovery channel, BBC, Animal Planet, CNN etc etc.