VOOM Goes BOOM - update Dish Drops all 15 VOOM Channels

**Jim S.** · 05-13-2008 12:20 AM

Originally Posted by dangue

I really hope some tough questions are asked at the meet and greet.

Don't hold your breath. Last year, everyone wanted Charlie to be told that decreased resolution was unacceptable.

**tman1991** · 05-13-2008 12:21 AM

"These channels are not available with any other satellite provider."

Thats reason alone to keep them.. Duh competitive advantage. Dish was not another me-too, but it sure is now.. Now there is hardly any diff from E* to D*

**FitzAusTex** · 05-13-2008 12:22 AM

Bummer, bummer, bummer. As Voom is heavily dependent on E* as one of it's only two distributors in the US, it probably wont be very long before the remaining 5 are gone, too. Very sad day, after a very happy day...

**Dugout Doug** · 05-13-2008 12:26 AM

I just added Ultimate to my package 2 hours ago.

Now I am walking through some guy in the chat dropping it, making sure I will be charged NOTHING!!

**Poke** · 05-13-2008 12:27 AM

Hmm interesting! Well since they pulled 10 are they going to knock $10 bucks of the Ultimate price? I think its $20 so maybe they will lower it to $10...

**Pepper** · 05-13-2008 12:27 AM

Well crap. How am I going to watch QuakeCon 2006 again now?

**dangue** · 05-13-2008 12:29 AM

Originally Posted by Jim S.

Don't hold your breath. Last year, everyone wanted Charlie to be told that decreased resolution was unacceptable.

I guess I should clarify. I don't really mean tough questions about their programming choices. Any amount of tough questions isn't likely to change that. I mean asking them WTF is up with their communication, or failure thereof. There was a tech chat where they played cheerleader to the 19 additional channels, yet there's not even a whisper of what's happening to Voom. That's just plain deceptive to me. Why release a press release saying we now have 95 national channels, when by 9 pm pacific that's not the case by any sort of math? Unbelievable! I'm so upset at how Dish handled this that all the positive things I've felt over the past month are gone.

I feel like yelling. Maybe I'll shoot off an email to CEO...

A couple more thoughts (more like rants):

This is Dish caving to D*'s marketing campaign about channels no one has ever heard of. Way to conform Dish! I don't even watch Voom all that much, but that's not the point. Some people do. And how can you tell me that any niche channel is safe now? Honestly, they removed 10 24/7 no commercial HD channels (that repeated very often) for part time HD or fishing in SD? Who's the genious that designed that master plan? Before I didn't think complaining that X channel should be booted in favor of Y channel was constructive. Now I think that anyone can lobby for the removal of any channel they don't like in favor of something they want. Bring on the complaining about how Channel Z is lame and should be booted...