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    What does VOOM need to do?

    What specific changes does VOOM need to make to get your business? Please try to be reasonable. Capacity limitations prevent VOOM from adding locals or dozens of additional SD channels; legal contraints prevent them from adding national HD feeds; and carriage agreements prevent them from...
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    VOOM have Firewire

    Here's the quote: Another response on the subject It's conceivable they will never support Firewire, particularly if they move ahead with MPEG-4 as planned. That said, if they offer a robust, expandable PVR next-year, that might eliminate much of the need for Firewire. It is my...
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    Voom Giveth & Voom Taketh Away

    They'd probably just increase compression on the other transponders to make space for those premium packages.
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    Voom is up and running

    They are re-encoding and recompressing their HDTV feeds (stat mux). They would simply re-encode and recompress in real-time using MPEG-4 instead of MPEG-2. Based on posts by their vp of engineering, they plan to use MPEG-4 for SD in 2004, and MPEG-4 for some HD in 2005. MPEG-4 doesn't offer...