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    big important question

    You can still get HD porn on DirecTV, but you will pay $15 per 90 minutes. No monthly sub offer there.
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    VOOM Shutdown Update

    chrem88, you only have one ball? Hmm, talk like that cost John Bobbit more than that, but I think he learned his lesson. Maybe you didn't... How about a little class here?
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    Direct TV Salesman at Best Buy Laments VOOM leaving

    Indy, Martin Logan speakers sound great and one of their systems was rated AAAA by Stereophile Guide to Home Theater. The Infinity IRS series sounded more like Martin Logans than traditional cone/dome speakers but not quite. The Logans are electrostatic while the Infinity IRS were...
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    Direct TV Salesman at Best Buy Laments VOOM leaving

    Firebird, I have heard BOSE systems and they have all sounded very poor compared to systems that cost less. Paper cone drivers in a plastic box with spring clips and no crossovers is not a good speaker design. Technically, you are right - I haven't heard systems that come close to sounding...
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    Direct TV Salesman at Best Buy Laments VOOM leaving

    If I heard BOSE would no longer be around, I would be happy that people would get better sound for less money with ANY other brand that isn't sold from the back of a white van. PS, if you want to see what some of the best speakers ever made look like, check out the link in my signature.
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    Cablevision Chairman To Use Cash, Stock To Fund Voom

    Sorry, but that isn't correct. It would take 500,000 subs at $50/month to generate $75 million per quarter in revenue, but Voom doesn't keep all that money. They have to pay CNN, Fox News, ESPN, etc. a price per subscriber and that would mean that much of that money would go to them and...
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    1.2 million shares cashed in by Dolan???

    1.2 million shares traded. I don't see where all 1.2 million shares came from one person. Look here: http://moneycentral.msn.com/detail/stock_quote?Symbol=CVC The average daily volume of CVC stock is 2.97 million shares, so 1.2 million traded by 10:45am isn't a big deal. Also, there are...
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    900,000 subscriptions

    I don't know who would expect the DVR to rent for $5/month when they rent their receivers for $10/month. Perhaps the rental will be $10/month for the DVR plus a $5 DVR fee and $5 per client.
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    900,000 subscriptions

    And the closer they get to the breakeven point, the less money they will lose per quarter!
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    Cablevision chairman may boot CEO son

    They may even have to send ESPN to film the board meeting. I am sure the smackdown would make the top 10 plays of the week!
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    The (www.voom.com) page is back! (And back to shutdown mode)

    I cannot check out the help link because my security settings prevent the applet from starting. Enough other people are verifying this that I am a believer now that it is legit. While you may not care enough to fake a site, there are people who do. Some are lazy and just troll and others are...
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    The (www.voom.com) page is back! (And back to shutdown mode)

    Yes, somebody who registered in March of 2005 and has 2 posts. I notice that the domain was registered for one year, the cheapest total expenditure one can make on a web domain. erron posts a nice graphic that should give some proof that it is legit, but he is also a new user in the last 2...
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    The (www.voom.com) page is back! (And back to shutdown mode)

    Or, there is no such thing as bad press. If Voom LLC pulls out of this with a coup by Charles Dolan, I can assure you there will be some talk in the primetime news about it and that will generate even more subs.
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    Voom Alive! --- 21 days & counting (post sale of Rainbow 1)

    But those "flagship channels" are not the HD ones we are looking for.
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    Do we PARTY?

    The infinite words of wisdom I heard (don't know who said them so I don't attribute them to Verbano) was that Voom was only funded through Jan 31st and they sold their satellite. It is February 1st and my Voom receivers are still working. My guess is that they would never pull the plug...
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    VOOM Continues Marketing - Gaining New Subscribers

    It trended downwards for a couple of reasons: #1 - They purged their system of people who were not paying for the service. This resulted in a lot of people dropping from the numbers who don't represent a loss in revenue since they were not paying. Many of them joined for the few months of...
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    Pulling the Plug on Voom Subscribers

    I can't imagine what it would be like if every channel was 999, talking about all the upcoming programming they aren't showing any longer...
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    Cablevision Board To Debate Voom Fate

    That $5.9M figure for revenues was for the third QUARTER which makes it three months. $5.9M / (26K subs * 3 Months) = $75.64 per sub per month. The current sub numbers is unknown to the general public.
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    Cablevision Board To Debate Voom Fate

    Just because DirecTV could outbid Dolan doesn't mean that they will. Simply put, Dish is in the better position of the two existing DBS providers to make money off the Voom assets, so they should be able to outbid DirecTV for it, but that doens't mean that DirecTV won't bid on it just to keep...
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    Cablevision Board To Debate Voom Fate

    How much money does he have? A hell of a lot. Since he believes in Voom, I don't think he would consider it "throwing it away" but rather an investement. Imagine this scenerio: Dolan Sr. and/or partners buy Voom/RDBS for $300Million. They lost an average of $75Mil per quarter for 4 years...
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    Playboy and Spike TV personalities at CES at VOOM booth

    I was wondering why I didn't see any of them at the Voom booth. I didn't check the year on the post.
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    FCC Bureau Moves on 61.5-Degree DBS Issues

    It will prevent DirecTV and Echostar from bidding on the two transponders. Even if they don't want them, DirecTV and especially Echostar would possibly bid on them just to see if they can get the space so Voom cannot have it or drive up their price just to make it less likely they can survive...
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    VOOM Satellite Service to Dramatically Increase to Over 70 HD channels by March 2005

    They ordered 5,000 because they are in "limited testing" of the big dish and 5,000 is likely a minimum order. They will test to see how well it works and deals with rain fade. If it seems like a go, then they will contact manufacturers for a bid to make the dishes.
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    Getting new software V726, are you?

    I am nowhere near as bothered by that as DirecTV dragging their feet on implementing Home Media Option for the DirecTiVo. What has it been now, two years?!?!