VOOM Goes BOOM - update Dish Drops all 15 VOOM Channels

**KAB** · 05-13-2008 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by AntDogg65

Three weeks ago, most of you guys were complaining about not having Battlestar Gallatica in HD, now your complaining about Voom cutbacks. Give me a break you bunch of whining ninnies.

Here, here! +1

**riffjim4069** · 05-13-2008 09:15 AM

If I were Rainbow Media, I would pull the other VOOM channels from Dish Network as well as AMC, IFC, and WE...and I bet the folks at Lifetime Television would be more than happy to yank Lifetime, Lifetime Movie Network, and Lifetime Real Women.

After a dismal 1st Quarter in which E* may have actually lost customers, perhaps everyone who is unhappy about the VOOM situation should call to disconnect their service. To be honest, without VOOM in the lineup DirecTV, FiOS, and perhaps some local cable companies now offer more bang for the buck than Dish Network.

Wouldn't it be funny if the 10 missing VOOM channels popped up on DirecTV later this week.

Thanks a lot Cheese**** Charlie!

**harperjj04** · 05-13-2008 09:16 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!

So were you excited to watch someone play Hitman 2 on the original XBOX or is it the Blizzcon 2006 Festival or maybe the 2005 Madden challenge? That channel had ZERO new content. You're better off going to gametrailers.com and watching NEW content.

**HokieEngineer** · 05-13-2008 09:16 AM

While Dish has not commented, it's possible that the satcaster needed to drop the Voom channels to make room for the 20 new high-def channels. Dish had planned to lease space on a new satellite launched this spring to expand its high-def capacity, but the satellite has been declared a failure because it failed to reach its proper orbit.

Swanni is such an idiot. The 20 new channels were already up there before they "removed" the voom channels. The voom channels are still there, just not available to subscribers.

**butzchan** · 05-13-2008 09:18 AM

Originally Posted by riffjim4069

If I were Rainbow Media, I would pull the other VOOM channels from Dish Network as well as AMC, IFC, and WE...and I bet the folks at Lifetime Television would be more than happy to yank Lifetime, Lifetime Movie Network, and Lifetime Real Women.

After a dismal 1st Quarter in which E* may have actually lost customers, perhaps everyone who is unhappy about the VOOM situation should call to disconnect their service. To be honest, without VOOM in the lineup DirecTV, FiOS, and perhaps some local cable companies now offer more bang for the buck than Dish Network.

Thanks a lot Cheesedick Charlie!

LOL!

Yeah, if Voom goes bye, Dish loses any leverage it had against the competition.

**HokieEngineer** · 05-13-2008 09:20 AM

Originally Posted by riffjim4069

If I were Rainbow Media, I would pull the other VOOM channels from Dish Network as well as AMC, IFC, and WE...and I bet the folks at Lifetime Television would be more than happy to yank Lifetime, Lifetime Movie Network, and Lifetime Real Women.

After a dismal 1st Quarter in which E* may have actually lost customers, perhaps everyone who is unhappy about the VOOM situation should call to disconnect their service. To be honest, without VOOM in the lineup DirecTV, FiOS, and perhaps some local cable companies now offer more bang for the buck than Dish Network.

Wouldn't it be funny if the 10 missing VOOM channels popped up on DirecTV later this week.

Thanks a lot Cheesedick Charlie!

The only thing I can think of is that they have been monitoring the usage of the voom channels for awhile, and decided that the few viewers that actually watched them were expendable, if they decided to quit over voom.

I dont have any proof that they have been doing this, but it would be quite easy to put something in the firmware of the ViP receivers to do so, and beam the results back with the nightly phone home.

Removing channels without a PR or a warning is BAD BUSINESS in my opinion.

**tornado** · 05-13-2008 09:22 AM

This news sucks.

**goober** · 05-13-2008 09:22 AM

gee Did anybody think they "might" be making room for eastern arc?

**Scott Greczkowski** · 05-13-2008 09:23 AM

Threads Merged.

**techweb** · 05-13-2008 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by lionsrule

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

Nobody cares...

If all those added national HD channels actually had substantial HD content, I wouldn't care about Voom either. However, the truth of the matter that the vast majority of so-called HD channels on any provider have only minimal or some actual HD content. Aside from the Voom channels, there are only a handful of national HD channels that carry HD 24/7 (HDNet, HDNet Movies, UHD, MGM HD, etc.)