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A latin greeting from the Pagan festival that is now Christmas Io Saturnalia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia If you want to debate the issue, bring plenty of wine. ( :

Euronews $1.99 A-La-Carte Yes, I know because I added it when I dropped the German package. A little background. When I called in to ask about it, I was receiving the German package, but was not seing Euronews listed. The CSR told me it was no extra cost, but that they needed to add the...

Are you sure it is the Digital ID that has the "FF" in it? I'm pretty sure that is the Videocipher II Analog ID.

dish network and poor choice I don't expect D* to suck up to me. I just don't enjoy a company that treats its customers like they are idiots. I am an ex-VOOM zub. (til the bitter end.) Only reluctantly went to cable because I was not going to pay $300 to LEASE a High-Def DVR. Added...

I have the 6412, and it is a bit hit or miss on the firewire out. Sometimes my JVC D-VHS will lock up and not show or record the firewire signal. I was all set to get the unit replaced when the "tech support" person mentioned something after setting up the service call. That was unplugging...

Read carefully, the poster did not say Comcast Box, instead the poster said Comcast basic cable. You would run the Analog channels into the 811 and tune them in. Thus receiving those "free" international channels through one receiver.

Notes on buying a used VOOM box. At this time, only VOOM boxes that were activate and not deauthorized at the time of VOOM's demise can receive free OTA HDTV. The 8VSB module must be installed in the back of the unit to receive OTA HDTV. The module is a gray box with an edge connector on...

When my friend's box locked after a firmware update, 0000 got him out, but that didn't work when mine was in "demo" mode. I should have mentioned the 0000 as well. Always try that and 1234. Scary the number of times that is used.

best place to look for the unlock PIN I got my spare box stuck in what sounds like the same predicament as you. I thought about how long it would take to brute force the code. I've done it on several car stereos that had a 4 digit code, but those did not lock out after 3 tries, and...

Does seem suspicious Tony N., I too was a Broadcast Engineer. Have seen plenty of interesting and political developments on the road to HDTV. I use to be with WVTV in Milwaukee when much of the early US HDTV testing was going on. If you recall, it was supposed to be an analog system using...

A warranty is different from a right to return for a full refund. The warranty probably states the item is free of manufacturing defects. You might get Motorola to fix the box if it failed, but not get Voom to buy it back from you. Let's propose I purchase a Dish Network 921 outright, not...

Movies I'd never seen before: Night Moves Pauline at the beach Prospero's books The Manchurian Candidate (All sorts of foreign movies) Movies I'd seen before, but never in such high quality: Buckaroo Banzai Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

You should be able to go in and de-select the VOOM channels that are duplicated with cable. Personally I prefer the cleaner picture I get from VOOM. You'll find the selections under "Channels I receive"

The local station subscribes to the progamming, not the viewer.

It isn't a UHF/VHF problem. The Motorola 8VSB module covers both bands. It is instead a problem of encoding. The voom box is not designed to handle analog video in. That would require all sorts of messy A/D converters, as well as a tuner that tunes the AM video signal, and the FM audio...