Comments on: The World’s Longest Umbilical Cord

By: Euclid

Euclid — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

No competition to Sling box but still pretty interesting:TVU Networks offers a free P2P TV service:http://www.tvunetworks.com/Player Download (free)http://www.tvunetworks.com/downloads/index.htmLimited number of channels:CBN (Financial)ESPN (Asia)CCTV-5 (Sports)Cartoon NetworkCNN (Low Quality)ABCESPN (Sports)CSTVAnime 1OperaCNN1BloombergHBOHollywood (movies)MBC (high)Star TVand othersImage quality varies but overall it’s good. I was able to watch the World Cup in good quality without many interruptions in the signal (once per 15 minutes).

By: Hugo

Hugo — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

What job prospects are there in Uruguay for for Americans? What kinds of opportunties do you see to earn either US dollars or Uruguayan pesos?Enjoy your website very much. Thank you!

By: The Southron

The Southron — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

As Hamlet said, “theer’s the rub”.Many talent people leave Uruguay due to the lack of good jobs. That should NOT however, be interpreted as a lack of good opportunities–if you can search them out and seize them.Uruguay is, in my archaic opinion, over-educated. Since education is free through the doctoral level, everybody goes to school forever. On the one hand this produces a plethora of well educated people for the work force. But, on the other hand, it also produces a stultifying lack of innovation and entrepreneurship.One might be ablt to get a job based on ones English skills–teaching English or working for a large company with international business, but I am personally unaware of anyone who has done so.In my completely biased opinion, the best way to live here is to find a service or services you can render by phone and interenet in North America or Europe and get paid in US Dollars or Euros. Then live here inexpensively on prices based on pesos.If anyone has better ideas, I would love to know about them and will publish them gladly provided they are not some kind of multi-level promotion.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hi,I see that a lot of places for sale or rent advertise that they have cable TV. Are there any English language programmes (BBC News 24, BBC Prime etc) and do they show English football? Sounds mad but here in Spain where I live now they show anything up to 7 or 8 English games a week as well as matches from Brazil, Argentina, Portugal, Germany, France and Holland!). There’s not much I miss about the Uk but football is one of them.On a more serious note I think it’s easy to underestimate the importance of such things. For my first couple or three years life was pure adventure but as time passes you start to miss the odd things from “home”.

By: Copperhead

Copperhead — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

There are three main cable companies and one satelliteprovider(Direct TV). Many of the sitcoms and movies are in English with Spanish subtitles regardless of the provider. The option with the most English spoken is DirectTV. To see a listing of what they have available…Go to: http://www.directv.com.uy Click the “Productos y Servicios” Tab and the go to “Paquetes y Precios” followed by “Abono Basico” to see a listing of available channels on their basic package. Remember as I mention below some channels have Latin American Versions like TNT so the programming is different. The Latin American versions of Espn, EspnPlus, and Fox Sports are the main Sports Channels. Soccer/Futboldominates the programming and you can usually catch EPL, Seria A, and SpanishPrimera matches as well as UEFA Cup and the other tournaments. There are also 2local channels dedicated to sports. There’s almost always some sort of soccer on. Also, ESPN and FOX usually show sporting events that arenationally broadcast in the USA(i.e.Monday Night Football, the Superbowl, World Series, etc.)Note: Some sports leagues are now offering streaming video/radio for a yearly subscription such as mlb.com and NFL.com. I think more will be following suit.Hope that helps!