VOOM Goes BOOM - update Dish Drops all 15 VOOM Channels

[FitzAusTex]

Read:

http://www.satelliteguys.us/1370769-post932.html

Dang! Thanks for putting this all in one place!!! I knew this was true, cause i watch(ed) most of these shows...Can we create a sticky titled "Proof that Voom is not purely repeats" Perhaps Scott hasnt seen this....

[Starshifter]

Did Voom show the Nascar race in HD,What about any Major league Baseball/ Football. How about new premier movies in HD? How about new CSI,or Law in Order, Live Boxing, All Voom ever played was old movies and TV shows ,cartoons OVER AND OVER. I would rather watch Deadliest catch in HD for 1 hour then the entire Voom line up. There was Never anything on Voom! Just because its HD all the time doesn't make the same old boring movies and Shows any better. Whats on Voom that is exclusive? Repeated Old content. If you were lucky maybe 1 or 2 new CFL football games.

It's all about your personal tastes Hemi. Nascar, CSI, Law & Order & Live Boxing are all crap to me. Garbage TV. Nascar??? I'd rather watch the WFN for christ sakes. CSI? Those dumb ass crime drama's are boring and a dime a dozen. Football I can watch in high def on my local channels and baseball I have SNY HD to enjoy the Mets.

I won't bother to list all the great films that I watched on Monsters HD because you will just trash them anyway. It's those "old films" I enjoy.

Nascar??? Well, if watching cars going around in circles "over and over" again is your thing more power to you. Sorry, I'm not a gear head.

Nascar? ROFLOL!!!

[socalpanman]

There must be a reason they have the bad rap though....

I can't tell you how many times I have viewed the Guide and it always showed the same episodes. Maybe we weren't watching the same VOOM channel.

When was VOOM on DISH when they didn't offer DVR's?

Voom was Voom DBS without a DVR. Again you must not have really watched Vooms. Shows repeated but different episodes. Movies took no longer to recycle than the majority of the other premium channels but for the fact the Voom movies channels rarely showed content found on other providers. Miss the days of 007 (untouched) Month.

[Jeffro34tx]

He's also forgetting to subtract the commercial time on the added channels, which is 4.8 hours per day per channel. I'm not saying the VOOM channels had no commercials, but they certainly had nowhere near 4.8 hours per day per channel. Edit: And the commercials that did appear on VOOM channels were related to VOOM or VOOM programming, not mighty putty, penis enlargement, weight loss, feminine products, etc...

I doubt DISH was going to base this criteria in their decision. DISH wants to increase their subs. Most of the potential new subs are not going to know what the VOOM channels were, much less if they carried commercials or not.

[8bitbytes]

DISH lost to DirecTV in new Subs and did it while they had VOOM. Now they are trying it without, the same as DirecTV has been doing it.

Dish lost to DirecTv while they had SciFiHD and USAHD uplinked but refused to turn them on. They also lost in the ad department and in the sports dept.

If nobody knew about Voom, how could Voom have been Dishes demise?

Jeff, I know the new stuff is NOT a replacement for Voom even though the CSRs have been told to say that and the form letter email that is sent out says that.

I'm not even taking the Voom take down personally. I AM taking to task some of the misinformation and "too bad for you" attitude, although that kind of behavior will never be corrected on a public forum. Probably just had too much coffee today!

[Hemi 6.1]

I won't bother to list all the great films that I watched on Monsters HD because you will just trash them anyway. It's those "old films" I enjoy.

You won't list them because there was only 8 for the last 2 years. Planet of the Apes was what you Voom guys were getting excited about. WOW! If we all haven't seen that on National TV about 1 million times already. HD doesn't make it anymore interesting. Brain Eaters in Black and white . Another HD WOW.

[VinceT3]

lol - Got a feeling you didn't watch much VOOM in the last few months. You might have a different take on repeats there. VOOM gets a bad rap for repeating a show several times a day, then going on to different shows the next day. Probably a habit they developed in their pre-DVR days. Discovery repeats a show several times a week. It's hard to find a day that doesn't have "Dirty Jobs" in it somewhere.

funny I was going to say the same thing to you.. When they changed one of the channels to Voom Movies I was like "oow Voom Movies let see what on" .. Day 1 .. movie a, b, c.. a, b, c.. a, b,c .. Day 2.. movie d,e,f... d,e,f.. d,e,f.. Day 3 movie g, h, i.. g, h, i.. Day 4.. Movie a, b, c..

I rolled my eyes and at that point offically removed the voom channels from my favorite list..

[Tokafatty]

Really? HD-DVD is dead? So, like, they're not releasing anything new on it, at all? But yet... you'd still find more new releases than on Voom...

That's saying something.

Yes, it does say something. It says that while there are still people in existence who are stupid enough to continue to invest in dead technology, corporate America will continue to take advantage of them.

The only 2 studios left releasing on HD-DVD are Paramount and Universal. Toshiba discontinued manufacture of HD-DVD Drives and media in March. Even Microsoft has discontinued sales of HD-DVD drives for the Xbox360 and announced Blue-Ray drives coming later.

Next time, you should do a little research before attempting to sound like you have a clue.

Edit: Also keep in mind that Betamax took a full 2 years before finally going away after Sony lost its format war way back when...

[EricBskiVT]

funny I was going to say the same thing to you.. When they changed one of the channels to Voom Movies I was like "oow Voom Movies let see what on" .. Day 1 .. movie a, b, c.. a, b, c.. a, b,c .. Day 2.. movie d,e,f... d,e,f.. d,e,f.. Day 3 movie g, h, i.. g, h, i.. Day 4.. Movie a, b, c..

Actually, it seems to me that all the movie channels are like that. I dropped HBO because it seems like they only had 3 new movies a month and then repeated them repeatedly. I will say that HBO's originally programming was exceptional, but not $15/month worth.

[8bitbytes]

funny I was going to say the same thing to you.. When they changed one of the channels to Voom Movies I was like "oow Voom Movies let see what on" .. Day 1 .. movie a, b, c.. a, b, c.. a, b,c .. Day 2.. movie d,e,f... d,e,f.. d,e,f.. Day 3 movie g, h, i.. g, h, i.. Day 4.. Movie a, b, c..

I rolled my eyes and at that point offically removed the voom channels from my favorite list..

Hey, that's exactly why I don't pay for any movie channels.

Well, except for the one penny deal...