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NOTE : To see these movies you need the "DivX ;-)" codec. Don't worry, it is free and you can download this driver here. I suggest that you download the videos to your hard disk before paying them back with the media player. To do so right click on the picture and choose to "save link" (Netscape) or "save object with name" (Microsoft IE). The player to watch the movies is included in WIN98 and in BEoS, if you have a Mac O/S you can download a player from Microsoft. If you have Linux you know better than me what to do.

Just like in Italy there are many channels here in Greece. They have three (four?) public televisions named ET1, ET2, ET3 (wich is here in Thessaloniki, next to the communication tower) and maybe also NET is public. Then there are also some good private channels like Star, Mega, Alpha and some other pirvate but not that brilliant channels like Alter, Ant1, Gnomi and a lot of local channels.

A good starting point is publicity ;-) You get a lot of it! It looks like in Greece there is no rule about how much publicity they can fit between the two halves of a movie. As a matter of fact you get the first half of the movie from 21:00 till 22:00 then you get 15minutes of publicity, 30 minutes of News and another 15 of publicity... If you're lucky (and you didn't forget the fist part) the film is then resumed at 23:00 with the second part...

In this spot the voice says : 'The next time that he wants to taste something soft give him "soft kings allatini". Rich and incredible biscuits with big pieces of natural chocolate. For the next time soft kings allatini'. The motif of the spot is the red mark on the neck of the girl ;) I am still undecided if the spot creator wanted to say that the girl doesn't know which dress to pair with the spot or that she's worried about hiding it because she's cheating with more than one boy. Video Size 430Kb (0:24)

Here is the spot of the Delta Fruit Juices. Greek people is crazy for fruit juices. When you go to a decent supermarket (disounts are the exception) a whole 2 stand are devoted to refreshments with fruit juices playing the role of lion. Of course also the girl on the spot is a very nice example of Greek girls... by the way, did I mention that Greek girls are really beautiful? Video Size 290Kb (0:15)

How do you see movies in Greece? For instance in Roma (my city) there are some cinemas for foreigners where the movies are played in the original language (no dubbing) while Italian TV passes only dubbed movies. The good of making erasmus here is that they don't dub movies. You get the movies in original language with Greek subtitles. The quality of the movies is generally good on both Mega and Star while Alpha is famous for the sports, specially football. Don't expect anything from the public television. Altought the subtitles are a bit annoying they could help you to learn the language (but you have to learn reading Greek first!)

Here is a short shot from Hiraklis (Herkules). It is a American telefilm that is currently shown on the STAR channel. As you see the subtitles take the lower quarter of the screen and the audio is English! This is a morning program. During winter nights better quality movies are usually shown both on STAR and MEGA channels. Video Size 232Kb (0:17)

How does Greek music looks like? To me it looks like Greek people really love their singers. There are a lot of Greek clips on TV, way more than I am used to see in Italy for Italian singers. Listen to more music in the appropriate section of the site.

This is a piece of music video. This song is one of the hits of the 2000, its name is "To Kati" (the something) and it is sung by Kati Garbì, one of the most popular Greek singers. By the way the boy in the photo represents the Greek woman ideal man (but not according to the song...). If you put the player in a loop you get a rough idea of Greek club music. Video Size 564 (1:08)

The city of Thessaloniki is the second city in Greece. With more than one million in habitants it is normal that some channel is dedicated exclusively to the regional affair of the city.

In this video you will see some shots of the normal life in Thessaloniki. The clip comes from TV100, a local station which cares a lot about the city and offers many city oriented programs. Video Size 296Kb (0:17)

Clubbing issues. As explained in the Nightlife section clubbing and pubbing are the most known way passing the night. While on winter and autumn the Pubs and Closed clubs get the people during summertime the population goes to beach clubs and open air discos. Luckily I have got videos of both ;-) 

For the summertime we have a video of Sakis talking about Porto Paradiso for the Greek Television. Sakis was the manager of the Abya Yala for the first semester of 1999-2000 and the manager of porto paradiso for the summer of the 2000. 1Mb - 1 minute

 

And for wintertime we have a video from the Escape club in Athens. Actually this is not far from the usual hi-end club of Thessaloniki (and it is the only clip I have got, so keep it) 496Kb - 0:37s

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