Dish messing with Voom, All are now HD-Lite 1280x1080i: Discuss this issue HERE!

**BrettTRay** · 12-13-2005 10:02 AM

I agree I think Dish first wanted to add all 21 voom channels at HD lite but we raised hell and they decided to have only 15 and at full resolution which is great by me. I personally don't think voom has 21 channels worth seeing. I think condensing it down to 15 will allow for better programming on the channels instead of having 21 channels of hd lite of the same old thing day after day. Maybe condensing it down to 15 channels will allow them to consentrate on the programming which is seriously lacking in my opinion. I do think the HD locals will be HD lite until Echo10 comes onboard. I know FOX,ABC,and WB are 720p so they will be broadcast in 1280x720p which is true HD but I think CBS and NBC will be 1280x1080i.

**Ilya** · 12-13-2005 11:04 AM

FYI: With 430 replies (and counting), this is now the longest thread in our Dish Network forum!
The previous record was held by: Dish Expands High Definition Package (423 replies)

(Still, this is not long enough to compete with some of the threads in the VOOM area

)

**rdinkel** · 12-13-2005 12:32 PM

While we have all been busy looking to the future of HD, it seems that Dish may have fixed it drop-out problems with current VOOM channels. At least I have not experienced any problems this morning as I channel surfed.

**FreddyvsJasonvsAsh** · 12-13-2005 12:32 PM

Sweet.....lets making it bigger then LOL

**rdinkel** · 12-13-2005 12:35 PM

Gary: Any resolution or bit rate changes today?

**Ron Tobin** · 12-13-2005 12:38 PM

There seems to be conflicting reports on various threads within this forum concerning the additional Voom channels. While all reports seem say that ALL Voom channels will be at 1920x1080 (great news!!), some posts say that the new channels will be MPEG4, while other say they'll be MPEG2.

Can anyone clear this up?

**rdinkel** · 12-13-2005 12:41 PM

Originally Posted by rdinkel

While we have all been busy looking to the future of HD, it seems that Dish may have fixed it drop-out problems with current VOOM channels. At least I have not experienced any problems this morning as I channel surfed.

Spoke too soon: ANIMA (9474) is breaking up real badly now!

**Gary Murrell** · 12-13-2005 12:45 PM

Ron all Voom and ESPN 2 and most cerntainly national NY/LA locals will be mpeg2, Charlie had a slip of tongue, Scott confirmed this with his contacts at Dish, it is in one of the new sticky's he posted today

rdinkel, I am checking them right now and will report back

it can't be too long before we see changes though, it's only 3 weeks to CES

-Gary

**Scott Greczkowski** · 12-13-2005 01:11 PM

Lets hope my contact knows what hes talking about as he is a lot lower rank then Charlie.

(Still high up in the food chain)

Guess we will find out soon enough though.

**grb** · 12-13-2005 01:24 PM

OK, 15 Voom channels @ 1920x 1080! Cudos to Dish for listening to us and planning to provide us with full HD for the Voom channels -- even the Voom Network didn't do that (they were reduced to 1440 x 1080)!
I'm starting to feel a lot better about Dish, but they still need to get the current problem fixed -- it has gone on too long. I'm still unhappy about OLN and then the Voom problem -- things just looked like they were going downhill fast...