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DLP over DVI 720p Why not post a poll?

This must be a joke??? ESPN HD barelly has 10 hours a week of HD coverage. What do they plan to do with ESPN2HD???? Don't get me wrong, I am not slamming VOOM, just commenting on the lack of true HD material on ESPN...

Sean, I will do it. I see all the San Diego stations and about 20 LA stations. I am officially in the San Diego Market. I will send you an email from home with my information. Carlos

My billing just got fixed (California). I also was promised credit for all previous months in next month's bill. :-)

Waiting to get the same correction in California!

I am one of the lucky people where the local NBC station is going to be broadcasting the olympic HD feed 24-7. Regular programming will be on the analog station. Hearing about 321 I had an idea. We can all (at least the lucky ones) use channel 321 to compare the picture quality/compression...

How about starting a VOOM forum (like the local area one) for Problem Reports and other Issues with VOOM. People can post there and perhaps even make it the most popular forum for all I care. What I am tired of is people hijacking EVERY post about ANY topic and turning it into a complaint...

Good points Sean. However I believe we are on to something here regarding picture quality. I have been particularly troubled by a "delayed Apples to Apples" comparison. What I mean is comparing the same programming on EAST and WEST coast feeds on VOOM. Almost always (99.9%) of the time the...

I agree with your observations 100%. This is also a long term trend, observed over many movies in my opinion. I wonder if the source of these issues for these lower quality premiums is the feed from the network providers, or if VOOM uses different settings for these channels in the encoder...

Anyone else seeing major audio dropouts on Discovery tonight? They come and go in spurts about every 10 minutes. When they start you get lots of them at once. My signal is 91, 93 with power 70 during the dropouts. Carlos

I feel lucky. Here in San Diego our PBS affiliate has an "all" HD channel that shows 90% plus true HD programming all day long. Sure we get repeats but nothing like the VOOM exclusives. The "digital broadcast center" as they call is run from a single donation from a local zillionaire's family...

I work in the industry too. I run Mac OS X 10.3.3 and XP on two machines. My XP machine blue screens about once every two months. No big deal. XP does have a "half life" since installation. As time progresses from the install the system gets slower and slower, more and more cluttered. Also XP is...

This is exactly the problem. Nobody but a monopoly could afford to develop and give this away. Once all vestiges of competition are gone and everyone has adopted their standard (according to your information around 2012), MS will be the only player in town. Then, when the next gen of HD comes...

I called D* up and asked to be connected to customer retention. I told them about VOOM and asked about D*'s plans for HD. The customer retention person could not believe what was available on VOOM for the price (I subscribe to VavaVoom). I then told her I like the D* DVR service. I asked what...

Offtopic MS Rant Crap! The reason behind MS success is the "IT full employment gurantee". IT is a crappy job. People complain all the time, nobody notices when it is done right. MS created a line of products that guaranteed "full employement" and "a sea of users that need you because they...

Sure there is. MPEG 4 does not require doing discrete cosine transforms while encoding/decoding. This means I can write an MPEG 4 decoder on a very simple real time platform (like ARM) in a cell phone. Similarly an encoder is not too bad to write either (although much more complex). No such...

Thanks guys! I will be ordering the Gefen 4x1 tomorrow! Carlos

Well said. I could not agree more. One more thing to add. WM is not a real time codec. Broadcasting requires a real time codec. Even with a custom ASIC WM is not designed for real time encoding. In my experience in our lab at work MPEG4 is the same quality as MPEG2 in less than half the...

Thanks for the heads up on the Pacific HDCP problems and the AVS discount! I have a couple questions on the Gefen. Is the remote receiver on the same side as the cables like in the two port unit? With the cables coming out of the sides of the unit how did you place it in your system?

I have a Samsung DLP with a single DVI input and two boxes with DVI outputs (DVD player LG-3510A and the VOOM STB). I guess I am tired of switching cables around. Can anyone on the forum with experience recommend a DVI switch? I have found three, two support a remote control and all three...

Nope defintely not a fake. Sopranos on HD West was pretty bad at my house on a 56" screen. HBO HD East was fine at the same time. Huge ammounts of pixelation were present whenever there was fast movement of whenever the camera focus was on patterned material like wallpaper or fabrics...

I am watching Sopranos right now on HBO West. It is pixelating like crazy. These problems were not on the HBO East feed earlier. Calling VOOM right now. Wonder if CSRs have access to the signal on a big board or something. Carlos I say we flood them with calls every time this happens...

One easy way to spot the artifacts of over compression in MPEG2 is to watch a sports feed. Look at the field. These artifacts are clearly visible in DirecTV local broadcasts of NFL or any other field sports. Even when there is no action on the field the grass crawls, or blocks. You end up...

I got home this evening and my box had been updating for 637 minutes (counter in the blue/grey screen full of hexidecimal numbers). I unpplugged the STB, waited 20 seconds, and plugged it back in. Got the same screen but this time saw fast progress and the clock bar on the front pannel...

Try hitting the aspec/ratio button on the tv remote. Through DVI there is wide pc and wide tv. Wide tv should get rid of the borders. Carlos