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Marco

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Can a forum member with a DVD recorder recieve the German TV station ARTE?

Tonight there is a documentary called ‘die kamereramanner von Verdun’ (20:40) and I would love to see that.....

Kind regards,

Marco

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Can a forum member with a DVD recorder recieve the German TV station ARTE?

Tonight there is a documentary called ‘die kamereramanner von Verdun’ (20:40) and I would love to see that.....

Kind regards,

Marco

Can't help you with the TV prog I'm afraid, but there is a video available from Amazon.de called Douaumont. German made and a mixture of modern reenactment and archive film from both sides. It covers more of the battle of Verdun than the title suggests.

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Marco,

I was looking to see what was on Arte today, 11/11, and saw 'L'Heroique Cinematographe' (about WW1) was on this afternoon so I recorded it (48 minutes). When I looked at it the German title is 'Die Kameramanner von Verdun'.

I have had a quick scan through it and it seems to be a general film taken in WW1 and only some of it is about Verdun. The dialogue is in German. If you want a copy on DVD please send me a message with your address.

When I watched Arte a few years ago (on Astra Analogue) I was able to receive it all in French. Now some of the programmes are in German and some, fewer, in French. I would like to have them all in French (Arte is a French/German channel). Any ideas if this is possible?

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Hello Brian,

Many thanks for your kind offer. I will contact you tomorrow when I have some time because I have a question.

A fellow forum member pointed this link out to me:

http://www.arte-tv.com/fr/1004818.html

which says the documentary is a co-production with the AVRO. This is a Dutch company and a few months back we had a documentary on Dutch TV about filming 'during' the Great War. I think that although the titles differ they are the same program. If that is the case than I already have it.

If ok with you I would like to compare notes if they are indeed the same.

Kind regards,

Marco

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Marco,

It was made in 2003. I have had a look at the opening:

Une coproduction

Quark Productions

ECPAD

France 3 Nord Pas-de-Calais Picardie

INA

Avro

avec la participation de France 2

Un film de

Laurent Veray et Agnes de Sacy

From this you should be able to see if you already have it. The German title about Verdun is, I think, misleading

Brian

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Hello Brian,

I had a look and it turns out the doc. shown on Dutch TV is the same as the one on ARTE. But thanks again for your offer.

Kind regards,

Marco

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ARTE is broadcast in both French and German on separate channels.

If you want the French you will have to hunt through the channels to find the one you want (same programmes).

I found that at one stage I was getting the French programmes then changed Video recorder and got the German continually. I had to retune to get the French again.

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Sorry, I was thinking of those who get it from the ground.

On cable it is two completely separate channels.

On satellite each language comes out of a separate speaker i.e. no stereo (or something like that).

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@healdav. On some digital satellite channels they transmit more than one audio channel maybe up to four channels all stereo and some are in dolby digital.

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I have just checked Astra 1E (19.2E) - 11567.50 V - DVB - 22000 5/6 and its in dual audio, French and German.

Thanks but my receiver is analogue and Arte on 19.2E seems to be only German (with some programmes in French). If I go DVB I lose the free Eurosport!

Thanks for the satellite website.

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