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Last reply · posted in Old YAHOOGROUPS - VOOM! Archives

[VOOM] Re: New Promotions?

--- In VOOM@yahoogroups.com, "rdavidson75" <rdavidson75@y...> wrote:
>
> I just got off the phone with voom, and the CSR said she heard
that
> there may be a new promotion for charter subscribers that want to
> lease equipment available next year(Monday).
> Maybe now we will be able to lease an additional set top box until
> the recorder comes out without cancelling service and then waiting
> to re-install.
> She was not willing to bet her paycheck that the installation crew
> would miss their installation appointment. I even offered to go
> double or nothing. (current record on service calls is 4 out of
13).
>
> Has anyone heard of a new program or policy?
>
> I love the HD, but the lack of marketing direction is frustrating.

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Thats interesting! Thanks for letting me know haha! Was this
costumer service or a sales rep by the way? Im a sales rep and no
one said anything about a new promotion bedires what we have
know .for the 3 rooms in your home for $1.00. I will also check that
out.Have a great new years!
LinkinKorn_Kid





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thegrod
linkinkorn_kid,
Hi. Happy New Year to you!
I have the deinstall scheduled for Jan. 5. I am hoping that VOOM will
announce the promotion for existing customers of $1, etc. so I can avoid the
hassle of scheduling what may be two service calls. If you hear anything I
am sure you will inform us. On Jan.2 I will call to cancel the deinstall
regardless and just wait to see what vOOM decides to do about extra set top
boxes.
Too much of a pain dealing with two visits from Installations, inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "linkinkorn_kid" <linkinkorn_kid@yahoo.com>
To: <VOOM@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 8:03 AM
Subject: [VOOM] Re: New Promotions?


>
>
> --- In VOOM@yahoogroups.com, "rdavidson75" <rdavidson75@y...> wrote:
>>
>> I just got off the phone with voom, and the CSR said she heard
> that
>> there may be a new promotion for charter subscribers that want to
>> lease equipment available next year(Monday).
>> Maybe now we will be able to lease an additional set top box until
>> the recorder comes out without cancelling service and then waiting
>> to re-install.
>> She was not willing to bet her paycheck that the installation crew
>> would miss their installation appointment. I even offered to go
>> double or nothing. (current record on service calls is 4 out of
> 13).
>>
>> Has anyone heard of a new program or policy?
>>
>> I love the HD, but the lack of marketing direction is frustrating.
>
> *********************************************************************
> Thats interesting! Thanks for letting me know haha! Was this
> costumer service or a sales rep by the way? Im a sales rep and no
> one said anything about a new promotion bedires what we have
> know .for the 3 rooms in your home for $1.00. I will also check that
> out.Have a great new years!
> LinkinKorn_Kid
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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linkinkorn_kid
--- In VOOM@yahoogroups.com, "thegrod" <bruceg@h...> wrote:
> linkinkorn_kid,
> Hi. Happy New Year to you!
> I have the deinstall scheduled for Jan. 5. I am hoping that VOOM
will
> announce the promotion for existing customers of $1, etc. so I can
avoid the
> hassle of scheduling what may be two service calls. If you hear
anything I
> am sure you will inform us. On Jan.2 I will call to cancel the
deinstall
> regardless and just wait to see what vOOM decides to do about
extra set top
> boxes.

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thankyou!
yes ,if I hear anything about that I will inform you all!
Have a happy new years eve and day! I work both days lols. I got to
get ready a few hrs to leave to work.take care.and have fun tonight.
Linkinkorn_Kid
> Too much of a pain dealing with two visits from Installations, inc.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "linkinkorn_kid" <linkinkorn_kid@y...>
> To: <VOOM@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 8:03 AM
> Subject: [VOOM] Re: New Promotions?
>
>
> >
> >
> > --- In VOOM@yahoogroups.com, "rdavidson75" <rdavidson75@y...>
wrote:
> >>
> >> I just got off the phone with voom, and the CSR said she heard
> > that
> >> there may be a new promotion for charter subscribers that want
to
> >> lease equipment available next year(Monday).
> >> Maybe now we will be able to lease an additional set top box
until
> >> the recorder comes out without cancelling service and then
waiting
> >> to re-install.
> >> She was not willing to bet her paycheck that the installation
crew
> >> would miss their installation appointment. I even offered to go
> >> double or nothing. (current record on service calls is 4 out of
> > 13).
> >>
> >> Has anyone heard of a new program or policy?
> >>
> >> I love the HD, but the lack of marketing direction is
frustrating.
> >
> >
*********************************************************************
> > Thats interesting! Thanks for letting me know haha! Was this
> > costumer service or a sales rep by the way? Im a sales rep and no
> > one said anything about a new promotion bedires what we have
> > know .for the 3 rooms in your home for $1.00. I will also check
that
> > out.Have a great new years!
> > LinkinKorn_Kid
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >





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Michael Crawford
I'm still waiting to see what happens next week as well. You might remember
that I complained about the lack of an answer from Voom on adding receivers
for existing customers about two weeks or so ago. I want to switch from
cable to Voom completely, but don't want to spend huge money to do it.

After complaining here, I was contacted by a rep directly through email, and
I thought we had things worked out to a decent deal. But when I replied to
ensure that I had all the facts straight before agreeing, she never answered
back. Sent her three emails, tried calling Voom and having them connect me
to her (didn't work, which I find extremely annoying), nada, zippo.

I have my new plasma all set up now in the bedroom. I'll be deciding next
week between

a) adding Voom to all the TV's and dropping cable ONLY if they have a decent
promotion for existing customers or
b) buying a LG LST 4200a stb for the plasma, and dropping Voom entirely. I
already have a built in box for the tv that uses Voom right now, and 80% of
our HD viewing is OTA stuff right now. I really like having Voom for the
other channels, but unless I get rid of cable it's just a nice to have right
now, not a must have.

Michael
MWC




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Rockford Files Reboot?

'Rockford Files' Reboot Gets NBC Pilot Order

I grow tired of all the reboots. Most I don't bother with but will depend on the actor chosen.
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View: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYMwxTdjoXn/?igsh=MXU1czQyZnh0cnM3dA==


Premiere in January on nbc and peacock.
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January? OK.

I'm sure I will check it out. Not getting my hopes up but I did enjoy the actor in SEAL Team. Never saw any of his earlier work.
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Yeah, I'll check it out as well, but shan't be holding my breath...It'll be tough to equal James Garner in that role...
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long_time_DNC said:
...It'll be tough to equal James Garner in that role...
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I can think of a few actors (including some females) who might fit the bill.

This will all depend on the storyline. I'm not sure how well it will translate. Modern TV hasn't been all that kind to PIs and even less kind to CIs (confidential informants).
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Premier is Saturday, Jan 2nd. Moving to Thursday on the 7th.
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osu1991
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The Man With The Bag (2026) Prime


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Bad Day - Netflix


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MorCowbell
Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Saved OTA list on Dish can't be appended

I have Dish with Hopper3. I choose to get local channels OTA and had a "guide list" established at my previous home. Having moved a few miles away, I wanted to update the list by appending a couple new stations via a rescan. As many would know, some stations come in with the UHF/VHF antenna aimed in one direction, while others come in better with a different direction.

Unfortunately, when a scan is done (bringing in 25-30 stations for that particular antenna aim), the dialog screen does not present the established guide list; it presents an empty field to the right that the scanned stations may be selected one by one and added to the empty guide. But because of antenna aim, some stations originally saved are missing, and would have to be retrieved with a different antenna aim. But as I explain, if a 2nd​ scan is done with a different antenna aim, the stations saved from the first scan are lost.

It troubles me that Dish didn't develop software that would allow a user to simply append only 1 or 2 channels to the established list. :mad:

Any thought on this? Has anyone experienced this or heard of this from others?
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dishstaller
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I could very well be wrong....it has been a LOT of years but back when I had a 722K it seemed like when you went back to the scan screen that you could just scan again and it would ADD those channels to the previous list or you could delete the previous results and only add the channels from the new scan.
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dishstaller said:
I could very well be wrong....it has been a LOT of years but back when I had a 722K it seemed like when you went back to the scan screen that you could just scan again and it would ADD those channels to the previous list or you could delete the previous results and only add the channels from the new scan.
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I am not sure about that but I do know that you could manually add additional channels just by entering the actual RF channel number and the older receivers would add the virtual channels to your list
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n0qcu said:
I am not sure about that but I do know that you could manually add additional channels just by entering the actual RF channel number and the older receivers would add the virtual channels to your list
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Like I said.....that has been many years ago. Swapped my 722K for a Hopper in 2012.

It does seem like I remember having to delete the existing channels when we did a rescan. Back then our local stations KEPT monkeying around with things and it was non-stop complaints from customers about their channels not coming in. Got so bad that I stopped selling OR installing OTAs....something I had been doing since 1984 so you know it HAD to be pretty bad.
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You made one of my points for me with this comment, Dishstaller:

"... local stations KEPT monkeying around with things and it was non-stop complaints from customers about their channels not coming in ..."
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dennispap
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dishstaller said:
I could very well be wrong....it has been a LOT of years but back when I had a 722K it seemed like when you went back to the scan screen that you could just scan again and it would ADD those channels to the previous list or you could delete the previous results and only add the channels from the new scan.
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I remember that also on my 722.
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dennispap said:
I remember that also on my 722.
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Thanks.....has been too many years to remember clearly.
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Bobby
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Keep in mind that the 722 had a built in OTA tuner and the 722K had a plug in module for OTA. The Hoppers and Wallys use an add on USB OTA dongle. I believe they are entirely different.
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My F-You To Sam Altman

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watchOS 27.3 Beta - Siri Recap and Live Rewind Coming!

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osu1991
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Marvel Television’s VisionQuest


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Oct 14 Disney+
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Finished the 2nd episode tonight. I'm really liking it so far.

Still hate weekly releases though, especially the way Disney and HBO do it waiting until 8pm to premiere it.
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Apparently I'm not a big enough nerd🤓 since I did not read every Marvel Comic Book ever published. If I had, I might be comparing the comics' version of events compared to what's transpiring in "Visionquest". So, I am enjoying the series a lot, not weighed down by previous expectations, knowing only the Avengers MCU movies and the "Wandavision" / "Agatha All Along" TV series.

I found the Mr Know-it-All channel from his discussion about "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" and he's been gleefully picking these episodes apart, referencing the Marvel comics from the 1939 on. Turns out A.I. has been around since before World War II, at least in the comics. (Robots before that, yes, yes.) This show is going back into the archives.
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I'm expecting the finale to basically bring Vision into play for the Doomsday movie next month.
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annoying they went with single episodes for the last two after releasing two a week for the first 3 weeks
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osu1991 said:
annoying they went with single episodes for the last two after releasing two a week for the first 3 weeks
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I thought they were effectively releasing a longer episode 7 and 8 instead of shorter episodes 7 & 8 this week and 9 & 10 next week. It felt like they were packing more into this episode.

edit: But you're right, the run time of the first three pairs of episodes was 100 minutes on average. Episode 7 clocks in at 65 minutes. 😕
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Song Name Game Part 3!

Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Scott Greczkowski
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Last reply · posted in DIRECTV General Forum

New Gemini Box

The following is from Reddit. -
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gemini.webp

There appears to be a new DIRECTV Gemini OTT box, the C81KW-650.

The FCC listing is partially available, and a Geekbench entry confirms it uses an Amlogic S905X5, a solid SoC for a set-top box.

I also see 4GB of RAM, and the manufacturer is SEI Robotics.

DIRECTV C81KW OTT Box - Android TV Guide

Ok found a picture of the Box too on Reddit:


View: https://www.reddit.com/r/DirectvStream/comments/1twlex0/comment/opzeqi1/
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Scott Greczkowski
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I know a few people who have gotten one and I am told like most modern streaming boxes this one also has HDR on all the time.
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Tom Speer
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Scott Greczkowski said:
I know a few people who have gotten one and I am told like most modern streaming boxes this one also has HDR on all the time.
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I only noticed that as a problem on TVs that handle HDR poorly. They don't have enough peak brightness or enough dimming zones. For instance, TCL makes three lines of TV, sort of like the old Sears model of Good, Better, Best. On my 4 or 5 year end low price model, HDR looked awful (My neighbor likes the TV now). The midrange model from the next model year ithat I have at my Lake home now looks pretty good in HDR all the time. The midrange TCL QM7 model from last year at my other home looks spectacular, as I remember. I haven't seen it for 6 months.

If I had a TV that does HDR poorly, I would configure the Gemini to disable all HDR.
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Tom Speer said:
I only noticed that as a problem on TVs that handle HDR poorly. They don't have enough peak brightness or enough dimming zones. For instance, TCL makes three lines of TV, sort of like the old Sears model of Good, Better, Best. On my 4 or 5 year end low price mode, HDR looked awful (My neighbor likes the TV now). The midrannge model from the next model year ithat I have at my Lake home now looks pretty good in HDR all the time. The midrange TCL QM7 model from last year at my other home looks spectacular, as I remember. I haven't seen it for 6 months.

If I had a TV that does HDR poorly, I would configure the Gemini to disble all HDR.
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I agree with that. The 2 LGs that we have Gemini's on looks far better with HDR enabled then it does with HDR off.
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Scott Greczkowski said:
I know a few people who have gotten one and I am told like most modern streaming boxes this one also has HDR on all the time.
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That would be a deal-breaker for me. The Rokus default to having it on all the time but it's easy enough to change that to native. If the content is HDR it goes on. Otherwise, no.
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I don't mind HDR being on as long as its adaptive. I don't need HDR on non-HDR content

Also, God only knows how much it'll cost to get this per month. 10 bucks a month for 3 TVs in my apartment is not worth it if I can just use my android boxes and appletv to watch
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Redbullsnation said:
I don't mind HDR being on as long as its adaptive. I don't need HDR on non-HDR content

Also, God only knows how much it'll cost to get this per month. 10 bucks a month for 3 TVs in my apartment is not worth it if I can just use my android boxes and appletv to watch
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It is not adaptive. HDR is either always on or off. No in between. However with my Gemini on satellite everything looks much better with HDR on.
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