Recent content by caduces_wild

Food HD is my ticket in Food HD is not my first choice on HD additions either. However, Food HD is my ticket to a new 622. I have been just tolerating Charter SD and getting OTA HD off my old VOOM box. The only reason I had C* was a 6 mo everything promo that made it just tolerable which is...

Goodbye VOOM customer service and hello Charter c.s. I signed up for the above promo via Charter website. It gave me a reference number and I received a confirmation email. It said that a CS rep would call shortly to get some additional information and arrange installation. A couple of...

Still no HD for me :-( As a former Voomer, I have been waiting to find out about the new MPEG4 rollouts from D* and E* before I plunk down anymore $$$ for HDTV. I currently use my VOOM boat anchor...i mean STB :D to receive my local OTA HDTV channels. I, too, am in a Charter "dead zone"...

I thought of this too. Having locals on 61.5 should qualify you for a free dish, but you have to pay $5.99/mo for locals. So thats $72/yr for ever and ever. I personally dont need a local feed and paying $100 is not satisfactory IMHO when I already have a dish pointing at 61.5. The only...

Why replace dishes before prices go up? Why is Voom going to replace the dishes before the promo prices end in December? Judging from the poll, over 1/3 of the respondents say that they are going to dump Voom when the prices go up in Jan. The bigger dish will add more bandwidth; but there...

Be careful unlocking Playboy I have an embarrasing lttle tidbit to share. My wife and I had Playoy on before we got ready to go out. I have it locked out usually. I found out the hard way that if you unlock it and dont turn of the box to relock it, you run the risk of your mother-in-law...

Different sats? Aren't D* and V* on different sats with different orbits, and totally different azimuths?

What is up with the channel scanning update? im still missing two locals on my channel mapping. I would also like to delete the spanish channels (four of them locally in PG) and others that i never watch. :confused:

Azimuth and elevation for Voom Sat in houston Aleki, Unfortunately, Voom sat is at 129 deg which is roughly SE. Also the OTA towers are all in Missouri city which is roughly south. You might also consider that the elevation is 39.4 deg if there are tall trees or bldgs in the way. here...

voomin in the burbs I'm up in the Spring/Woodlands area. I get all OTA's...but on my own UHF/VHF. Voom antenna only brought in like 2 stations. I am 39 miles from the towers per antennaweb.org. The installer said sorry thats all you get. So i changed the coax to my preexisting antenna and...

hbo ppv Anybody know if you have to be an HBO subscriber to purchase the ppv event? :confused:

I signed up earlier this afternoon and it took maybe ten minutes. It was on by the time i hung up the phone. First impression: :shocked :eek: :shocked :eek: :shocked Second impression: :yes :D :yes :D :yes

Another Houston Voomer here, I had my install last week. The tech could only get half the locals with the stealth so I just switched the coax to my roof vhf/uhf antenna. I live 30+ miles from towers and have a two story house right in the way. Now I get all except PBS (only UHF right now)...