Recent content by JWK

Is your local infrastructure shared due to some state or local regulation? Because, if not, this will all change very soon -- the Feds removed the regulations requiring telcos to share infrastructure with outsiders. My wife works for a local telco down here, and they had to lay off about 1/5...

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...

03/08/2005 Time: Approximately 11:24 pm Eastern Time Channel: 606 (Cartoon Network) PQ Issue: Horrendous pixelation bands, ocassional image freeze. Pixelation would sweep across the screen in very thick horizontal bands, sometimes the entire width of the screen, sometimes just for a portion...

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It wasn't cut - it was commercial free. Gloriously, beautifully commercial-free. Sadly, now that it's aired, I can find no mention of any more Battlestar Galactica on UniversalHD's schedule stuff in the upcoming months -- I'd really, really hoped that as well as airing the pilot, they'd...

My understanding was that personal animosity between Dolan and Cuban precluded there being any chance of Voom carrying HDNet. As in, Dolan would like to see Cuban burned alive slowly while rats gnawed off his appendages. Hence, wishing for HDNet on Voom is about as useful as wishing for little...

Dear Mr. Dolan, Your vision was brave and beuatiful. Because of you, I've enjoyed a year filled with television the way it *should* be in the twenty-first century. With network affiliates multicasting in some ill-conceived desire to degrade their product so that it looks just as bad as...

Oh, and I will say this -- my complaint seems a bit silly at this point. What with the imminent demise and all. Hadn't visited the forums in quite some time. Came because HBO's pixelation (actually, HBOHD-W) had been bad enough to irk the heck out of me last night, so I wanted to vent...

Thanks, Ilya :)

That'd mean a lot of lost / wasted content. The Cinema 10 could definitely stand being squeezed down to a single channel, but I think a lot of Voom's other original channels are good enough to warrant survival on their own. Rave, News, Monsters and Animania are the ones which I think could...

No, not really -- not unless you can move the post over to the Customer Comments folder :D

I've been using Voom since nearly the beginning. And, before anyone starts in -- no, there's no problem with how I've got my Voom box hooked up. I use component inputs (my TV doesn't have DVI inputs) and they allow for a very beautiful picture, generally speaking. Unfortunately, especially...

Yeah, this doesn't make ANY sense to me whatsoever. A program guide being wrong every so often -- that's understandable. After all, broadcasters change what show they're gonna run, decide not to tell you. But how the hell do you get your OWN CHANNELS WRONG? I mean, these are VOOM's...

Man, this live coverage is hella lame. Mostly seems to be them mentioning Spaceship One briefly, and then breaking away to the same recycled snippets about the weekend's football games 'n the NY Subway. I'd hoped for something continuous - like the coverage of the conventions.

This seems like a*very* good point. Why should we need to re-transmit local OTA brodcasts OTA? Are we basically implying here that local channels do such a HORRENDOUS job of transmission that it behooves the satellite providers to re-do the job for 'em? I mean, I think I could get behind...