Thread: International channels on VOOM

I would like to know if VOOM has plans to add international channels as a premium service.
I'm particularly interested in Russian channel - I'm switching to VOOM, but will have to keep Dish Network also, as my wife watching Russian channel NTVA on that all the time and we are paying $20 per month for it. I believe Cablevision delivers Russian channels in some areas. Just curios if anyone heard anything from VOOM people.

Since those are all SD, I doubt VOOM will be interested in them any time soon.

I believe these channels are profitable for Dish, so they will probably be profitable for Voom regardless of the resolution.

It's a different market though. Dish goes after SD customers. VOOM is primarily focused on HD customers. They only add the most important SD channels to compliment their HD offering. They have a very limited capacity now. May be some day down the road after they switch to WMV9 or MPEG4, or after they launch the next satellite...

and i think all russian channels have crappy quality. I don't have it myself, but relatives and friends do, and its horrible (rtv, rtr, ntv and others)...

no room as of now, this will have to wait and no offense, but i think it will be on the bottom of the memebers lists below home and garden.(that may show up soon).and whatever.NO AL-JAZEERA!

Aren't the Russian news broadcasts the ones where the female anchors do a strip tease while talking about the news?

I'm sorry, but I hope they never add all the international channels that Dish carries. So much wasted bandwidth in my opinion. I want VOOM to just stay as an HD focused provider. They need to address Sports before they even start addressing the Internationals.

Originally Posted by wasch_24

Aren't the Russian news broadcasts the ones where the female anchors do a strip tease while talking about the news?

I think Canada does that too