Recent content by Tony N

Since the update I have had several recorded shows fail to playback. They are in the list and in the history as fully recorded, but when I select to play all I get is a blank screen with the choice to delete or not delete. When I click on Dont Delete I still get the same blank screen...

Any eBay Seller that represents in any way that the VOOM receiver can receive local stations, and the buyer finds it comes on and says "not activated call VOOM", must refund the purchase price and shipping. If seller refuses the buyer MUST notify eBay and the Federal Trade Commission. It is...

Well, my real beef is that there still are no reasonable priced digital receivers out there. We have been offering a very much superior signal for 7 years and so few viewers are even aware of it. There are millions of analog TVs out there that have been sold since then that are not...

Bob, You make some good points, but take look at it this way: Ok! To the one in 5 that does not sub to cable/sat SCREW YAZ!! No TV for you you cheap sot!! Lets chop off the analog transmissions because there are businesses out there that can get WELL off the vacated spectrum. After all...

Seems to me Moto ought to provide a way of re-initilaizing all the VOOM boxes, simply out of environmental responsibility. Think of the harm of thousands of them being dumped into landfills. Also with so many of them out there, someone will eventually reverse engineer the VOOM box to do it...

Be very careful to have your VOOM receiver plugged into a decent surge supressor. A power line surge or spike could corrupt the software load in the unit. No way to re-load it because it had to be done over the VOOM satellite. Also you never must never do a factory reset! It takes a special...

Macfisto2, have you checked the outlet the receiver is plugged into? Loose, flakey power sockets can cause this symptom in receivers. Causes hits to it's memory, requireing reboot and a new channel search. Try plugging a lamp into the same socket and wiggling the plug to see if the lamp...

PS. Did you notice Shapiro had a lot to say about what the broadcasters must do to promote Digital TV, but he mentioned nothing at all about how the receiver manufacturers should "kick-up" their efforts to make broadcast digtal tv receiveable inexpensively.

Oh yes, so nice to spell out all this, when they have done little substantive to promote digital terrestrial TV. The one manufacturer that developed a really workable decoder chip is owned by an offshore company that has pulled the chip off the market except in it's own branded TV sets. In...

If you own the townhouse you have control over the premisis. The roof may be considered a "common area" however, if maintenance is the responsiblilty of the homeowners association. In that case you may need their permission to mount any antenna on the roof. Any portion of the townhouse not...

The only sure soloution would be to get another cable run so you can experiment with the A-B switch box. If things then are fine all the time on each of the stations, now you know the receiver is ok. With both the cables handy at your receiver you could conviently experiment with combiners...

3 possibilities. Multipath is likely. The signal could be interfering with itself, by a bounce off of some large object some distance away from both you and the station., thus arriving at your house a few microseconds later than the main signal. That can confuse the 8-VSB decoder in spite of...

Dish alignment is not at all scientific. This aint astrophysics! (It definitely is astrophysics to the guys that put the bird up there!) The DBS dishes use offset feeds which makes the dish look like it is pointing differently that the RAF beam actually pointing. The markings on the dish are...

I think all this talk about V*s profit/loss/subs numbers misses the point. I would say it is the overall lack of consumer demand for HD. The demand for HD is growing, of course, but a drop in the bucket compared to the demand for DVD's and conventional big screen sets. Simply and sadly...

Wow! Voom really has the right idea, not allowing any STB to work unless it is purchased at an above market price and insatlled by their anoited installer! Just think how great this would be if Car Dealers could work out the same plan! Then there would be no used car lots or private owner...