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    Sadoun Christmas Giveaway

    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. ( :
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    Euronews Launch Delayed

    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...
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    Motorola DSR405 Receiver

    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.
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    EchoStar Reports First Quarter 2006 Financial Results

    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...
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    Attention VOOMers switching to cable!

    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...
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    Boston OTA and dish 811 for voom

    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.
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    VOOM Box Buyers Guide rev 0.1

    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...
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    Voom STB Master Reset

    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.
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    Voom STB Master Reset

    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...
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    Reset Voom STB

    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...
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    Pure Speculation

    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...
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    Movies Voom introduced you to.

    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
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    South Florida Voom Zone!!!

    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"
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    HDNet Moves Into OTA Market

    The local station subscribes to the progamming, not the viewer.
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    Any chance voom will ever let "OTA SD" channels in the guide?

    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...
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    ***** Big Big Changes for HD Cinema*****ALL MOVIES in OAR all the time

    Save World Cinema! I understand Arthouse will probably include a healthy mix of world cinema but I worry it might dwindle too much. I must confess I tell friends that if I put uncomfortable seats in my living roon, and mess up the sound, World Cinema can turn my living room into a little...
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    Keep HDNEws or Not?

    I enjoy HDNews. It's pretty cool to have 4 weather maps at once. And indeed, this might just put some pressure to go HD for news at the national level.
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    New info in SEC doc filed 9/2

    The title is misleading. The article says it isn't adding them as fast as it was. "Customer additions slowed dramatically during the summer months" This is not the same as losing subscribers. I don't doubt that many who have tried VOOM have left VOOM, but not to the extent that the...
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    Record an Anamorphic DVD from Voom?

    Squeezed is not anamorphic Bitwise. Just to let you know, you are using anamorphic incorrectly. You want squeezed. Anamorphic lenses squeezed the picture, but in a non-linear manner. The reason for this was that you would not lose detail in the middle, only toward the edges, where the...
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    NBC HD Olympics - ANYONE HOME?!

    If they are improving it, perhaps I'll look in on it again. It was pretty sad how screwed up it was during their seriously delayed broadcast of the opening ceremonies. I'd already seen the highlights of it elsewhere, including the Athens site itself.
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    How are you watching the Olympics - SD/HD?

    Since NBC is continuing their ridiculous policies that they had during the Sydney games, I am doing just like I did then. I am not watching the Olympics. I remember watching the Olympics in the '70s and '80s and catching as many events as I could. And most of it was live. Since NBC...
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    So what the hell is going on???? re olympic feed

    Act locally! Don't bitch at VOOM. It is not their fault. The fault lies squarely with NBC/GE. They bought up all the "rights" to the Olympics in the US, and have decided they will parcel it out the way they see fit. They even bought the internet casting rights only to quash them...
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    Is VOOM selling subscriber data to direct marketers?

    I did opt out. I received the subscription come-on the very same day that I received my first VOOM bill. (Which incidentally did not include the credit for the Sears "kit.") When I called VOOM about the credit, and a service related issue, I asked about the direct marketing. The CSR...
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    sears- package problem

    I did the Sears route because it helps out the local salespeople. Well, they had all the info, ie cert # etc. I received my 1st bill last week, and they did not credit me the $49.99. I called VOOM. The CSR looked through the system, found I was due the credit, and that the cert had not...
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    Optical Switcher

    Why are you trying to switch the optical instead of the Coax? The Coax would be much simpler. You could take your average A/B cable switch and replace the F connectors with RCA connectors. Or, just build on in a project box from Radio Shack.