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At long last!!!! I loved those old VOOM channels. Back when there was limited HD content, nearly 40% of my viewing was of VOOM channels. Especially before Dish down-rezzed and bandwidth-starved them.

I've always thought the real bargain was the NFL HD included in the basic package. I get 3 games nearly every Sunday afternoon. The NBC Sunday Night game. And the ESPN Monday Night game. So that is 5 games a week, all in HD, and I pay nothing extra for them. Later in the season it goes...

I was with E* for almost 10 years. When MLB:EI went to D*, I was disappointed with E*, but stayed because 4 of my 10 most watched channels were VOOM channels. When E* dropped VOOM, I re-evaluated my carrier and switched to D* in some part because of MLB:EI. I must say that having MLB:EI is...

One of the primary reasons why I switched from E* to D* was to be able to sub to MLB:EI and watch NESN HD Red Sox games here in Wisconsin. Quality has been excellent. If I ranked my areas of highest satisfaction with D*, watching the Red Sox in HD would #1 on my list. Much further down...

It has been 6 months since I left E* for D*. Last night I got a call from E* customer services, asking me (again) why I left and what could Dish do to get me back as a customer. I was a high-paying customer of E* for 10 years prior to leaving. I paused for a second, they caught me off guard...

What are you, some kind of wiseguy?

Talk about beating a dead horse! The discussion about moving this thread is such a dead horse that the crows have quit picking at it.

+1 on the 622. The D* HR21 is okay, but definitely a notch below the 622. The D* PQ is also better than what I had from E* in May/June. I had a chance to directly compare multiple channels for a few days. Not a huge difference, but enough of one for me to see and appreciate. But not...

So aren't too willing to admit you were wrong about both my post being a complaint, and that I had posted the same thing before, eh? The logic above is downright silly. I haven't been posting to this thread at all for months, so of course I'm not going to do what you stated. I did state about...

As to reviving the old thread. As I rarely visit this forum anymore, I searched to see if it had had any activity in the last month. I found that there were 33 posts to it in November. That isn't old and dead. So I went ahead and posted to it.

As to the topic of D* adding VOOM, I made no statement of expectations on this. I would like to see them add some of the VOOM channels. They could replace some of their excessive number of HD PPV channels on a 1:1 basis and eat up little to none of their precious 19 remaining HD slots...

I wasn't complaining. I was merely stating that after 6 months, I was reflecting back upon VOOM and missed having those channels. I certainly haven't done that before in this thread, as this is the first time I could have been without them for 6 months. Why are some so quick to put a...

It has been over 6 months since E* dropped VOOM. And 5+ since I switched to D* as a result of that decision. I was sitting up late the other night, scanning channels, when I had a thought about how much I miss the VOOM channels. I frequently watched VOOM programming late at night. If D*...

D* did away with their license deal negotiator position. It was a cost-savings move. It was cheaper than buying more satellites. ;)

When I had a 622 I tried a lot of things to lessen the noise so I could live with it. But eventually ended up putting it into my basement and running the HDMI up through the floor, along with the remote antenna. That worked perfectly. Could then sit and read in that room when the TV was...

Wow! Haven't checked in here for a while and didn't expect this thread to still be so active. I think I got my loss of VOOM angst out of my system after switching to D* and telling E* it was because of losing VOOM. Now I hope D* picks up some VOOM channels. Even with D*'s 95 HD channels, I...

To think, that this was the first quarterly loss of subs ever reported by a DBS company and that I was part of it! I went to D* for the better HD. I was thinking about it for a while, then when E* dropped VOOM, that pushed me over the edge. I would think that I am one of D*'s new "quality...

Which of E*'s SD receivers that are now being installed, are MPEG4 compatible? I was advocating here a couple of years ago that E* should stop shipping any & all receivers that could not decode MPEG4, in order to give them a leg up on a future conversion of all SD & HD to that format.

I got surveyed by E* to find out why I discontinued my subscription. Of the 10 survey options for the main reason why, they had no option to say it was because they dropped VOOM. So I picked "Other" and wrote that. They did include options like "I was misinformed about my pricing/service" and...

I also had to laugh when I saw that IFC HD was not among them. That's the channel that the E* customer retention specialist told me was replacing VOOM.

Today's announcement would have caused me to stop and reconsider. My favorite HD channels are movie channels and E* just announced a boatload of them. But as D* already has several of these, and I fully expect them to at least match and probably better this lineup once D11 is in operation...

Back when reviewers tended to include comparisons of the ATSC image quality, the 921 wasn't regarded that well. It was below average on sensitivity, where other tuners could pull in several more OTA channels, and considered very average on image quality. This may mean nothing in terms of the...

Given that the reviewers from Consumer Reports were able to see differences on SD TV sets, it is certainly more than possible to see a difference on a HDTV set.

Reviews of HDTV tuners used to be a big thing. Back in 2002-2004 I saw reviews and comparisons all of the time. But rarely see them nowadays. They are now reviewed for features. CNET/ZDNET has a long review of the 622/722 on their site, and they did look at OTA performance. But all they did...

In the June, 2008 issue of Consumer Reports, they review the new DTV converter boxes. They reviewed 14 of them and grouped them into 3 categories. 4 of them were in the "Best Picture Quality Capable of Images that come close to DVD quality." 6 of them were placed in "Better Picture Quality -...