I can't say that I was ever happy they were removed. I was not upset either though. My preference would be to have as many HD channels as available.... whether it has repeats, stretch-o-vision, up-converts, hd-lite, sd programming.... is there anything else people complain about all the time? Doesn't matter to me.
I want all networks to get into the HD era and I don't expect them to be perfect right off the bat. The more networks that get their channels in HD, the quicker it will be that they need to take care of those annoying problems above. If everyone is broadcasting in HD, the next thing on their list is to make their channels look better. At some point, the channels will begin to show its weakness in quality as it will be side by side with every other HD channel. There have been comparisons to the age when tv was converting from b&w to color. Something along the lines of how long it took for the networks and shows to get everything broadcast in color.... it took a long while. I am sure you could also make comparisons in another way as well. I will bet that not all programs that went to color looked as good as some of the others. It probably took some time for them to get a standard going for the color quality. The same will happen with the HD broadcast as well.
Back to the OP question... I'm not sure the question was really posed in an appropriate way. I doubt most were happy to see VOOM go. I think some were just not upset as much as others were.
BTW - thanks for starting another VOOM thread.
I want all networks to get into the HD era and I don't expect them to be perfect right off the bat. The more networks that get their channels in HD, the quicker it will be that they need to take care of those annoying problems above. If everyone is broadcasting in HD, the next thing on their list is to make their channels look better. At some point, the channels will begin to show its weakness in quality as it will be side by side with every other HD channel. There have been comparisons to the age when tv was converting from b&w to color. Something along the lines of how long it took for the networks and shows to get everything broadcast in color.... it took a long while. I am sure you could also make comparisons in another way as well. I will bet that not all programs that went to color looked as good as some of the others. It probably took some time for them to get a standard going for the color quality. The same will happen with the HD broadcast as well.
Back to the OP question... I'm not sure the question was really posed in an appropriate way. I doubt most were happy to see VOOM go. I think some were just not upset as much as others were.
BTW - thanks for starting another VOOM thread.