freezetime said:
Sadly, if VOOM doesn't add Fox Sports West, I will have to cancel my VOOM. I would hate to have to do that. I have been enduring not watching Laker home games since November and now that baseball is starting up, not being able to watch my Angels is unaccpetable to me. Here's hoping VOOM adds Fox Sports West.
So, cancel it -- there are 17 regional Fox Sports Net channels. So, for each Voom viewer to add ONE channel to their lineup, Voom would have to dedicate the bandwidth for SEVENTEEN channels.
That'd be fine if we had oodles of bandwidth and nothing to do with it -- which may well be the case with the MPEG-4 compression, and a general lack of HD content to choose from. However, with Voom being an underdog provider in general, and with Voom probably always facing an uphill battle as far as satellite space goes, Voom should stay far, far away from regional and local broadcasts over satellite.
There are a lot of posts from Voomers talking about how much they loved it when Voom's SD PQ was the sharpest of the 3 satellite providers. To me, providing pristine SD PQ (and, obviously, providing the best HD PQ of any satellite provider as well for the HD channels offered) is a MUCH better use of bandwidth than any channels which only a small portion of Voom subs can legally receive.
Providing ten gazillion local channels over their birds is what truly tanked PQ for E* and D*. A process which will only get worse as they try to provide HD locals via satellite (an idea so stupid, it truly boggles the mind).
Local and regional content should be broadcast over the air, via antenna. You should be agitating for your local Fox station to improve its broadcast coverage -- not agitating for Voom to do Fox's job for it.