VOOM HDNews is one of those channels that has left me scratching my head the past three years thinking how it could have been really good (certainly filled a niche market)...if only they had invested a little more time and money in the production. I really like some of the VOOM channels (especially Cinema10), but VOOM has always been the proverbial chicken vs. the egg: VOOM would spend money producing new and innovative content as they gain subscribers; however, VOOM cannot gain new subscribers since cable or DirecTV did not have the bandwidth to support adding 15 or 21 HD channels; Rainbow Media shoots themselves in the foot by not making a few of their more popular channels available to Cable systems (RAVE, Monsters, WorldSport, etc.) - it was the "whole ball of wax" or nothing. Heck, I have no doubt they would have been carried by Verizon FiOS last spring if only they would have offered a scaled-down version of VOOM HD. Here's a variety package I would to see offered on FiOS:
- MonstersHD
- RAVE
- VOOM Sports (compilation of WorldSport and RushHD)
- VOOM Cinema (compilation of FilmFest and FamilyRoom)
- VOOM Grabass (variety of all other channels)
One can only wonder about the terms and conditions of the VOOM/Dish Network partnership.
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