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SkyAngel managed to get on the air as cheaply as possible (trading TP space for use of TPs with E*) and has very limited costs paying NO channel for the rights to rebroadcast. They I suspect that SkyAngel's biggest cost is advertising the service. They are also at around a million customers ...

Voom has a history of non-paying customers. JL

There are still some people who insist Voom will be there on May 1st. JL

It was 40k at the end of Feb. The rest of your statement seems just as accurate. How many will it be May 1st? JL

Comcast has nice introductory offers in my area - but the price jumps down the road. It wouldn't be bad if you knew you would be cancelling for something better in six months. I did that with DSL ... did six months of Comcast DSL until Verizon finally got DSL running (at less than half the...

Don't forget the DVR ... There were so many little things missing from Voom. They had a lot of big things ... plenty of channels in HD ... but it is the little things that will get you. If Voom would have started in October 2003 with half the HD and more 'cable favorites' they would have...

USSB had its own satellite space. They were assigned 5 transponders on 101 and 3 transponders on 110 (plus 8 on 148 that were lost). The deal with D* (who had the other 27 transponders on 101) was to host USSB's content on USSB's five transponders and handle billing and sales of the channels...

I vote for V* retaining the satellite AND the meteor. JL

Apparently your 'task' is to nitpick posters. Full quote followed by a one line comment about POSTER and not TOPIC? This is a discussion forum. I'm discussing the topic thank-you-very-much. Lets get back to it, ok? BTW: 334 records are now shown for IB 05-72, including late filed comments. JL

Emphasis added. Any answer begins with a guess whether the FCC will approve the transfer. But we can eliminate a few 'options' ... Possible, but not popular in this forum. This is the decision now before the FCC. What Cablevision does with their satellite if this deal fails is speculation...

Voom on - Voom off - whatever. JL

With all due respect, I cannot remember the history of every poster and neither can you! Thanks for the answer, but you could have given it without the snide comment. :rolleyes: JL

The last 'official' number for the nation's fourth DBS provider is 40,000 - as stated in Cablevision's 10K and Voom HD LLC's petition. One news article stated a slightly higher number with over 5k waiting with (of course) an anonymous source. Your install is Thursday? How long have you been...

A few prayers for Voom's survival wouldn't hurt, would it? 40,000 customers want to keep their service.* JL * Assuming most all customers actually want to keep the service.

30i is thirty full frames per second sent as 60 half frames (similar to NTSC TV). 30p is thirty full frames per second sent as 30 full frames. Not quite - HD 1080/24p, 1080/30p, 1080/30i (x1920, Square or 16:9) 720/24p, 720/30p, 720/60p (x1280, Square or 16:9) "Enhanced Definition" is...

It is not one of the 18 that the FCC has accepted for ATSC, and therefore cannot be considered one of their 6 HD formats. I suppose one could accept it as HD outside of the FCC accepted ATSC context. Just like we accept 480x480 scanned images as standard "SD" channels on satellite. But it is...

They are transmitting the same number of full frames. The three highest HDTV levels are: 1080/24p (x1920, Square or 16:9) 1080/30p (x1920, Square or 16:9) 1080/30i (x1920, Square or 16:9) = 1080i HDTV These three are 2,073,600 pixels per frame (24p would be slighly lower bandwidth with the...

I don't recall any specific definition of HD from the FCC. The industry has a spec, only 720p or 1080i are HD formats and if push came to shove the FCC defers to the industry's definition. JL

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Perhaps they will get it all fixed by 3/31/05. :D JL

Do so, and return. C Dolan is in New York. C Ergen is in Colorado. Ocassionally one has been seen visiting the other. Chicago isn't a player. JL

I usually tell our local installer the rumors. He's too busy doing the work to be digging up dirt (other than to plant mounting poles). It always suprises me how some salescritter at a third party store or installer in the middle of nowhere gets quoted on these forums as if he was the personal...

Don't panic! I find it odd that they added the new channels last week. Just because they didn't add any more on a weekend is no reason to predict doom and dispair. :) JL

Right now the crow is still in the freezer. It hasn't been decided who will be eating it. It is premature to suggest "pro-Voom" or "anti-Voom" people should be eating crow. Charles Dolan is still facing a deadline that is three weeks away. Do Voomers expect yet another reprieve? Barring that...