Thread: We Really Had It Great With Voom!!

After searching for a movie in HD last night I realized (not for the first time) how great I a had it with VOOM. I have TWC which gives me Showtime, HBO and HDNET Movies. So after searching those three channels and coming up with "2 Days in The Valley" (or was it "3 Days in The Valley?") for the umpteenth time (a good movie by the way but you can only watch it so many times) I turned to DISH which now carries the tattered remnants of VOOM. (You might say VOOM on DISh is like what's now left of New Orleans compared to the old New Orleans.) On DISH I checked Guy, Majestic & Monsters but could not find an HD flick I wanted to watch. Just 6 HD channels to choose from. In the good old days of VOOM we had 10 VOOM movie channels (I guess 11 counting Monsters) and 10 Premium channels becasue we got both East & West feeds) 21 HD movie channels then......
6 now. Oh, well....just re-living the good ole days. Now where did I put my drink?

Voom was a great service and was never outdone on it's HD channel offerings during it's short life. It seems that now HD programming is rare these days and in too short supply. I miss all those HD offerings. The thing that really ticked me about Voom was all of those who complained about it to the very end. Now, where is all of those HD offerings. Well, you've got a little with this company over here and a little with that company over there. That basically amounts to didly squat. I can't believe the 30th of this month will mark 1/2 year since that company's demise.

Amen. We really had it great.

FiOS boyz....give it another 6 months.....from what I have see....I was in the Dallas-Forth Worth area and one of the folks I dealt with....who lived in Keller...invited us over for a nice family dinner....we happened to talk about VOOM...and he had FiOS and sait it had a BETTER picture than VOOM....I had to see to believe....and I did see....WOW

...less than a year boyz.....less than a year

FIOS will only be availeble in a few cities in the next 4 till 5 years. So, great if you live in one of those markets, but guess what, not everyone lives there.
And yes, miss my Voom!

Yes, Marcel Living in a Bellsouth area is the pits, to bad FIOS isn't an option in this area. Dish gives you < 1/2 the Voom for almost twice the price (plus all the home shopping channels you can puke at). DirecTv is a joke, I can pick up locals via OTA just fine, they need to use the bandwidth for more national HDTV. And let's not forget Insight, all the fuzzy analog you could want and little in the way of digital let alone HD content.

Man I'd like to kick everyone who complained about Voom, it was the BEST, good HD, good mix of SD at a very good price.

Still OTA only using the Voom Box.

We did have it good with Voom. Voom also made this forum alot more interesting.... no offence Scott. What I mean by that between all the complaints you where always looking for Voom added such n such channel, Or new update released to recievers. I was always running from the pc to the tv to see if the updates where on my system. Almost had more fun with that then watching tv. Now that I am with Dish the updates, new channel offerings are not that great of a thrill. If Dish where to add HD channels at the rate Voom was expanding it would bring back the good old times of running from here to tv to see if I was seeing it also.

VOOM never released their promised DVR. You may have had it great with VOOM but I didn't so please don't say "We".

fksammons,

I wouldn't want to include you in the WE. You are exactly the group of whiners that kept Voom from succeeding. I hope you love all the fuzzy SD that you can record on Dish/Direct/Cable. I bet you you record the home shopping channel Now we have very little HD available and you and your type are just loving it because you have a DVR and can record all the SD crap you want. Wow if you wanted to record SD you could have just hooked up a Media Center PC. Now you don't even have the choice. Its SD and over compressed HD lite for foreseeable future But wait E*,D* MIGHT just add another HD channel oh my it's the home shopping network Voom was it, but we couldn't wait for the DVR , but we have plenty of time to wait for the others to add HD