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DarrellP commented: > I now have an email address of a VP for PQ at Dish and an email for a tech in the control room and whenever I see anything, I send them an email and they are right on the problem. < Cool! The next time I see that HDNet has their entire prime-time schedule shifted 10...

ratam commented: > using varying amounts of compression to determine what they can get away with. < Yeah, unfortunately, that seems to be the problem with ALL the satellite providers, at this point in time. With the cost of transponder space being what it is, and the limited # of birds in...

Ricknau wrote: > With the SD I'm seeing, if I freeze the pic when there is a nice hard diagonal line, I can count the "stair steps". There are only 240 of them from top to bottom. < That's because they're doing a "freeze field" display, to eliminate potential jitter from a "freeze frame" at...

gutter wrote: > I plan to stick it out and hope they upgrade the box as well. < I may well be wrong, but my understanding was that not only will the new DVR box still be a Motorola product (DSR-580), but it will be almost identical to the old one in external appearance and internal...

rtt2 wrote: > When the DVR comes out the content will be encrypted using NDS encription technology onto the Hard Drive. < Do you know why this is? It sounds as if even if they do wind up with Firewire on the DVR box that they won't let content out of the box... just like all the other Sat...

vurbano wrote: > LMAO... LMAO... LMAO... < With as much time as you spend doing this, I'm surprised you have any left. ;) > if you ... have a 720p set you will get a good HD picture, but only on 3 channels. But 1080i will suffer on your set, and that is the majority of the programming...

vurbano wrote: > the two boxes both have tuners and mpeg2 decoders. There is no difference < Huh? If a box has a tuner and an MPEG2 decoder, it's automatically the same PQ as any other box out there? That makes no sense at all. There are differences in tuner quality, decoder quality, as...

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Sean wrote: > was asked by a company that works very closely with VOOM to post the following poll. < With all due respect to the pollsters, I think the options are ALL crappy. Not that there aren't elements in there on what's Voom's about, and what makes it great compared to the...

I've already set up an account, and scheduled an install of a single receiver, but I was wondering if I should revise it to include two receivers? That way, I can have them install 4 feed lines during the initial install, at no charge. The reason being that I plan to upgrade to the DVR unit...

Don wrote: > Today, with the rental deal they offer, if you buy the receiver at $499, you need to be set down and slapped upside the head. < What if they do upgrade their current (purchased) receivers to DVRs for free, come November (or whenever), as some of their customer service people...

> I got the promotional letter and it states that after 5/31/04 installation is $199. No mentioning of any commitment. < Thanks, Sean. If I can install it myself, I have no problem with that. If I'm forced to accept installation, and pay $199 for something I could do better myself, then I...

Sean commented: > This is the type of promo that can ultimately bring subs to VOOM. < I don't understand this statement. It seems to me that it would be more likely to inhibit subs. I.e., if I've never tried Voom, I'm certainly not going to commit to a 2-year, minimum $1200 expenditure...