VOOM Goes BOOM - update Dish Drops all 15 VOOM Channels

**jimboeau** · 05-14-2008 11:26 PM

Originally Posted by ScottChez

I cant wait for DirecTV to now get the Voom Contract. I bet since they have no big contract, directv could get it for $2 a sub and sell it for $3.95 per sub like a movie channel package.

That would be an in your face to Charlie.

Directv will NOT be picking up VOOM. VOOM is on life support and will be dead within a few months.

**Tvlman** · 05-14-2008 11:46 PM

The fools! The only thing separating Dish from DirecTV was VOOM. They had 15 exclusive channels and I especially liked the movie channels.And no matter how many channels DTV added Dish would always have that many more. Now, without VOOM they are just DirecTV2 and right now DTV has more channels. VOOM was the only thing keeping me from abandoning Dish. So.......goodbye Dish.....goodbye guys. See you on AVS Forum and possibly another part of Sat Guys.

**mntwister** · 05-15-2008 12:26 AM

Originally Posted by bigthrust

If you leave Dish over the demise of Voom, then that is pretty sad and simple minded.

And why would that be? Maybe he liked the Voom channels, they certainly were a reason that I got Dish a long time ago, and I've been watching Voom ever since. Maybe you didn't watch them but some of us did. I watched Monsters HD and Film Fest all the time, Monsters HD was my favorite channel of all the channels Dish carried, standard or high def. Film Fest was not far behind. So they wrote me back today that I still can have Chiller on 199, so I go to see it and it's standard def and it's in the next programming tier and I can't afford to upgrade to the next level.

Listen, I understand Dish adding the channels they did because they must compete and these were all big name national networks going HD. What pisses me off is that taken away were 15 24-hour true high def channels without commercials.

Have you scanned the new channels yet? I did that today and found very little high def content. I found alot of 4:3 programming and stretched cartoons and programs and upscaled (and not well upscaled) standard definition that was re-sized to fit a 16:9 screen, in other words CUT from a 4:3 image. Please don't tell me we got a benefit from these channels and that there was no loss with Voom being gone. The only one I see that is true high def all the time is MGM, thank God there was one gift in this.

**tman1991** · 05-15-2008 12:34 AM

at least your not claiming its 4:3 HD..

**mntwister** · 05-15-2008 01:01 AM

I wanted to add this, I just called Dish and the first thing customer service asked was "Is this about the Voom Channels." Hmm..maybe a few calls today?

Then he went on to tell me that they were never true HD channels, they were mpeg-2 and took too much bandwidth (if they weren't hd how could they take so much bandwidth)...then I told him about all the stretched stuff and black bars on the new channels and he asked if I knew how to change my aspect ratio....I said thank you but I don't prefer to stretch my programming to make it look like high def. I felt like he considered me a real idiot.

**mntwister** · 05-15-2008 01:02 AM

Originally Posted by tman1991

at least your not claiming its 4:3 HD..

Hehe, no I saw no 4:3 hd :-)

**nsps** · 05-15-2008 02:10 AM

Originally Posted by mntwister

Hehe, no I saw no 4:3 hd :-)

But tomorrow we'll get to see how MGM handles a 4:3 film ("Call of the Wild," which was made for TV) and 1.66:1 film with Moby Dick.

**nsaspook** · 05-15-2008 02:53 AM

Anyone have a short clip of Voom going off the air this time? I have short clip from last time and would like to archive the lastest one.

VoomGoesDark first time

**kb7oeb** · 05-15-2008 03:58 AM

Seen a couple posts that the receiver just jumped to the "You have a Dish 500" channel. Not sure why it ended up there instead of an HD channel that was past the voom range.

**yaesumofo** · 05-15-2008 06:00 AM

There is no doubt that Voom gave dish an edge. This was unique programming.
animania was great animated HD programming. Toon SUCKS.
As do most of the other channels compared to the HD quality programming that was presented on many of the voom channels.

INDEED Voom was used as a tool to get customers when there was so little HD content available. There still isn't much and Voom was good stuff.
I for one am extremely disappointed. Take away a channel like gallery HD and add a fricking fishing channel? Get a grip guys. Loosing voom sucks.
Dish network HD Now sucks without voom which certainly gave them an edge.
Pissed. Hell I would give up this lot of Garbage new ad filled channels for the 15 voom any day.
Yaesumofo