Even in paradise, you gotta watch SOME tv.. Tahiti TV sucks !!

[SoCalDem]

One tahitian channel was sort of entertaining.. They apparently only have about 12 letters in their alphabet, and they use them A LOT..

Some words have several "a"s in them, all separated by '.. fa'a'a is one word..

anyway, back to tv.. I watched televised outrigger races, tahitian rugby and soccer..

Another local channel was tahitian music videos all day ..Their music is sort of Hawaiian in style, and very relaxing :)

The 3 other channels were french, and the commercials were woth watching .. If we only had interesting commericals like that .. Lots of Rolex commercials, Alfa-romeo,Fiat too..

One morning when we could not sleep , we watched about 2 hours of a french billiards (snooker?) tournament.. It was mesmerizingly interesting..

another french show seemed to center around a boy (about 12) and his unwise use of an ATM :wtf:??

and the only english speaking channel was CNN international.. It was a bit repetitive, but WOW what we are missing is HUGE.. I wish there was a way to FORCE CNN to offer CNN-I on the overnight instead of the endless re-re-repeats of the crap they show us during the day :)

[Awsi Dooger]

1. OK, first on my list

Things to bring to Tahiti:

1) My own American TV

[Kamika]

2. why tv

Why watch tv in tahiti :)

[SoCalDem]

3. Sometimes you just get tired of

all the fun & have to unwind :)

Remember.. I am the night owl :)

Even in Tahiti, my husband was asleep by 10 pm.. :)

[ReadTomPaine]

4. When I travel I take my laptop along...

with a slew of DVDs and VCDs. On more than one occasion I had a crowd sitting around me in an airport bar or lounge due to delayed flights, all of us watching a film or something I had running on the thing. Pop up the subtitles and most people can follow even if the sound is drowned out.

[Kamika]

5. thats so cool

Really nice of you too, something more people should do

[ReadTomPaine]

7. If its biz related, sometimes it's the highlight of the trip!

Meet a lot of cool folks that way. I hate to fly now, incidentally. I've had baggage clerks ham-fist my luggage during searches and break headphones, ruin film, inadvertently spill aftershave, you name it.

[trof]

6. CNN-I loop

Funny you should mention that.
When I was an airline pilot I had a LOT of long layovers in Narita/Tokyo. The only English TV channel was CNN-I. It was pretty much a loop that repeated every 30 minutes. We always said that by the time you could lip synch the loop right along with the news readers it was time to move on to the next destination.
;-)

[BiggJawn]

8. That doesn't sound too bad...

No FAUX NOOZ
No "Survivor"
No "Friends" or reruns of "The Nanny"

And international CNN, not the US Min of Prop-approved bubble-heads...