Recent content by RocketMan

Who's VoOming who? This is all so red state/blue state. Can you fathom that there are people who get pleasure from things you don't? Evidently not. Read the laments of people who are dropping their subscriptions and learn. If I went to the zoo to see my favorite animals and found instead...

Bait and switch Hey, former VoOm sub, get 10 VoOm channels now, the rest in a year! Yeah, well they added only 5, and you had to swap out the DVR, ante, reup. That's 2xB&S. When I did swap and reup at year 2, they failed to provide the $100 rebate they promised, knew nothing about it. Don't...

In days of old, when VoOm was gold, my HDVirgin visitors would often halt mid-sentence to exclaim, "Wow, that is an AMAZING picture!" It's the kind of experience that makes people think about purchasing a new set. Fast forward two years and I still hear that phrase, but only if I'm tuned to...

The Wages of Bait and Switch In May I paid $350 (DVR, second Dish) for 10 VOOM channels then and the remaining channels (11, count 'em, eleven) by first quarter '06. I didn't pay for 5 more channels in '06. I didn't pay for the option of increasing my contract commitment in '06. And I damn...

942 software I monitor this board occasionally for news of the network. I came to Dish via Voom in May, and the 942 remains the cherry on the cake. My sample space of 1 has certainly surpassed my expectations. I've not experienced increasing problems with the updates. I write firmware for...

Free Lunch How were you thinking the video was going to get to four different places in your house without cables? Most people don't have 4 HD TVs to supply, in which case the 2 box dual tuner solution works without extra cost. I don't know the length limitation of component or HDMI...

Godot No Mo' The install yesterday was painless. With the 942, PQ on the Voom channels is arresting, noticeably better than with the Motorola box. I generally used the component outputs from the Voom equipment, as there was a greenish accent in the picture using DVI. It wasn't in the TV...

Must be Allen House. Do they allow satellite dishes? You should have no problem getting all the local HD channels on the 3rd floor. The GE Optima is also a good choice. If you don't like what you see with the antenna connected directly, get a coax extension cable so you can move it wherever...

I'm in Houston, in the shadow of the Huntingdon (San Felipe and Kirby). I get all the local HD's with an RCA ANT1250 from Best Buy. Seems like it was $45. With Voom's Winegard on the roof, I almost never got Paramount 20 and seldom Fox 26. But with the little amplified rabbit ears that...

I'm not going through another month with only OTA locals, last week was bad enough. I'll have something in writing, even if it's apocryphal. :dev

I have an installation scheduled for next Saturday. My wealthy landlord is in Africa for a month, so I can't get anything in writing specifically allowing E* equipment on the roof. But he ok'd the Voom system, which is still installed and running on locals. I take care of most maintenance...

Voom 10 In the year that I had Voom everything, I watched many more movies on the VOOM channels than on all the premiums put together. I ran across more interesting movies there that I had not seen before, from old B&W westerns to Kung Fu chop socky. The "rainbow" theme of Voom was that they...

How to order install with 942 and Voom 21? I spent a year at V* Waiting for Godot (Motorola multi-room HD-DVR), and I'm not starting up E* without the 942 DVR. I can't see how to do that online. If I use the regular online order form I can select everything I want except the second dish at...

Each time I visit Best Buy or Fry's, I'm amazed at the lousy pictures displayed on high def sets. I remember being initially astonished when I installed rabbit ears and tuned to PBSHD in my living room. My bet is that their video switch networks don't have the bandwidth or the power to handle...

My PQ deteriorated from amazing to what looks like EDTV at about the same time I read about the harmonic encoder. No satellite channel is as sharp as it was, but the local PBSHD is still awesome. I presume bandwidth was sacrificed to allow attracting new subs with a larger selection. But...