VOOM Goes BOOM - update Dish Drops all 15 VOOM Channels

**tornado** · 05-13-2008 07:31 AM

Originally Posted by Fitzie

Regarding Voom, I'm sorry any of them are gone. However, they kept the 5 Voom channels I watch the most, including Kung Fu and Monsters.

fitzie

These are not the five I watched most.

**lionsrule** · 05-13-2008 07:32 AM

Originally Posted by techweb

Well Dish made my decision for me. Bye bye Dish.

Give me a break........

Nobody cares...

**howie14** · 05-13-2008 07:38 AM

Originally Posted by ghia

World Sport is my favorite Voom channel, I would hate to lose it. Having La Liga in HD is great.

I'm really going to miss that one-I like to watch the CFL in season.

Not much interested in the constant reruns, though.

Originally Posted by Apologist

With the addition of these new 22 channels and the loss of Voom we have actually lost more HD than gained. With the exception of a few of these new channels most show only a few hours of hd a week.

Yep, I really hated that several of the new "HD" channels were showing movies in 4x3 SD last night. I understand old series not being in HD, but movies?

**js6425** · 05-13-2008 07:39 AM

I think we should merge this thread with the "VOOM goes BOOM" thread.

**tornado** · 05-13-2008 07:40 AM

Originally Posted by thorphin

I hear that.

Why the &^%@# must they toy with our emotions? I've been looking forward to GameplayHD (I know, no one agrees with me) for two months, and now that my new TV is within 200 miles of my house, pffft, out the window.

I have been maintaining my own chart of DirecTV vs Dish (ignoring all the RSNs), and I was soooo excited this morning that Dish finally pulled ahead of Dish in HD content by 6 channels or so. Now, of course, Dish is back down under DirecTV by two channels. If your counts don't match mine, that's not the point. The point is that Dish can't even seem to get a good day right.

Today, they killed all the individual character that was Dish. Time to reevaluate (for the first time in two months) if DirecTV might not be a better choice.

BLAH!

If it was possible to get Voom any way, I would seek it out. Sadly, I do not see this happening. Can you imagine if Dish cared. These are not the five I watched most. What should I do?

**cincyguy2k4** · 05-13-2008 07:43 AM

This is a riot! You got to love how clever Charlie is but you also have to wonder when if ever he's going to get burned.

You put out a Sunday night press release to get everyone talking about how great Dish finally adding a ton of HD. "Dish now has 95+ HD channels!!!!!!"

The following day you release some really bad subscriber growth numbers and then quietly lower your 95 channel HD number back to 85 channels.

If I were DirectTV my marketing team would be burning the midnight oil today and making new commercials about how Dish gives you Bait and Switch HD content.

Im also wondering how many mainstream news sites (USAToday and the like) are going to pick up on the 10 channel drop. If enough of them point this out to the general public Dish is not going to be looking very good IMHO.

Personal side comment:

I have to say I am happy to see more mainstream content that most subs care about coming to Dish. VOOM didnt do it for me or many others and PERSONALLY I am glad Dish opened up some bandwidth for more HD to come. With that said I'm sorry to those who actually did watch those channels to have them pulled out from under you with no warning.

Maybe Dish will settle up with Fox now and add some SpeedHD!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lets go racin' boys!

**Dugout Doug** · 05-13-2008 08:02 AM

I ordered the HD Ultimate last night at 10pm EST.

Haha I was sold on the fact that I was getting MUCH more HD at $10 a month, and was really looking forward to MGMHD.

Right in the middle of checking out my NEW channels, poof. Haha

It was kinda funny.

To me personally, it wasn't worth another $10 a month for 10 more channels, if the extra fluff was there, fine, but now, to me it wasn't.

I did a chat with some terrorist, took about 20 mins, and he removed the HD Ultimate from my account, didn't charge me to downgrade, and didn't charge me for the 2 hours I had it.

No loss, but now, I will wait and see if they make Ultimate more tempting to me again.

**Bradp56** · 05-13-2008 08:15 AM

I hope they leave the new setup the way it is, to me 5 Voom channels is better than none. I am worried though that they may try to get rid of the rest of the channels.

**howie14** · 05-13-2008 08:17 AM

The link to DISH on the VOOM website now links to a page showing no VOOM channels.

**revm1m** · 05-13-2008 08:23 AM

I did a chat with some terrorist, took about 20 mins, and he removed the HD Ultimate from my account, didn't charge me to downgrade, and didn't charge me for the 2 hours I had it.

there is no reason for you to make a redneck comment like this.