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Re: [VOOM] Voom in Dallas

[VOOM] Voom in Dallas

I have been following the threads of this group for several weeks now
and I am very seriously considering getting Voom. I have a Mitsubishi
55" (WS55313) and would love to take advantage of the HD capability. I
currently have Direct TV and am not willing to spend $350 for the HD
receiver and $10.99/mo for HD channels. I also have the Direct TV tivo
and will not spend $999 for the HD Tivo. The lack of a DVR from Voom
is a concern, but not paramount (more for my wife than for me).

What I want to know is who does the installs in the Dallas Metroplex?
I don't know if it is Installs Inc. or another company. Can anyone
from the Dallas area fill me in on who did their install?

Thanks to all of you for the good information.

Wishing you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year.





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Re: [VOOM] Re: Voom in Dallas

Installs,Inc did the install at my house in Plano. They did a good job.

Their free installation when I got it was for them to disconnect the cable from my Comcast and use that cable to connect Voom. I did not want them to disconnect Comcast so he charged me $45 to run another cable line from the roof to the one TV that I use for Voom. I had wanted to run another line but he wanted more than that for the second so I did not do it.

My install otherwise went great. I use the DVI input to my DLP TV and the component inputs for the Comcast to the tv. I do not watch VOOM that much because I have to get up and manually change the inputs on the TV and it takes a while. But when I do the picture is fantastic. I especially like the Worldsport channel. The HD soccer is so close to the action and so real. I had gotten the VaVaVoom but I cancelled the movies since I already got them in HD on Comcast.

Too bad there are so few VOOMers nationally, only about 28000 I heard. Maybe all the advertising will help.

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In addition to your post here you might want to try posting on satguys
in the "In Your Area" section. There are many posters in the
Dallas/Texas thread that no doubt have the info you need. Hope you
find out what you need to get a successful VOOM install!

Good luck and A Happy New Year!

Watching HDTV under mostly cloudy Seattle skies, Gill


--- In VOOM@yahoogroups.com, "icehckylvr1960" <icehckylvr@v...> wrote:
>
> I have been following the threads of this group for several weeks now
> and I am very seriously considering getting Voom. I have a Mitsubishi
> 55" (WS55313) and would love to take advantage of the HD capability. I
> currently have Direct TV and am not willing to spend $350 for the HD
> receiver and $10.99/mo for HD channels. I also have the Direct TV tivo
> and will not spend $999 for the HD Tivo. The lack of a DVR from Voom
> is a concern, but not paramount (more for my wife than for me).
>
> What I want to know is who does the installs in the Dallas Metroplex?
> I don't know if it is Installs Inc. or another company. Can anyone
> from the Dallas area fill me in on who did their install?
>
> Thanks to all of you for the good information.
>
> Wishing you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year.




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jschaff111@comcast.net said:
Installs,Inc did the install at my house in Plano. They did a good job.

Their free installation when I got it was for them to disconnect the cable from my Comcast and use that cable to connect Voom. I did not want them to disconnect Comcast so he charged me $45 to run another cable line from the roof to the one TV that I use for Voom. I had wanted to run another line but he wanted more than that for the second so I did not do it.

My install otherwise went great. I use the DVI input to my DLP TV and the component inputs for the Comcast to the tv. I do not watch VOOM that much because I have to get up and manually change the inputs on the TV and it takes a while. But when I do the picture is fantastic. I especially like the Worldsport channel. The HD soccer is so close to the action and so real. I had gotten the VaVaVoom but I cancelled the movies since I already got them in HD on Comcast.

Too bad there are so few VOOMers nationally, only about 28000 I heard. Maybe all the advertising will help.

-------------- Original message --------------

In addition to your post here you might want to try posting on satguys
in the "In Your Area" section. There are many posters in the
Dallas/Texas thread that no doubt have the info you need. Hope you
find out what you need to get a successful VOOM install!

Good luck and A Happy New Year!

Watching HDTV under mostly cloudy Seattle skies, Gill


--- In VOOM@yahoogroups.com, "icehckylvr1960" <icehckylvr@v...> wrote:
>
> I have been following the threads of this group for several weeks now
> and I am very seriously considering getting Voom. I have a Mitsubishi
> 55" (WS55313) and would love to take advantage of the HD capability. I
> currently have Direct TV and am not willing to spend $350 for the HD
> receiver and $10.99/mo for HD channels. I also have the Direct TV tivo
> and will not spend $999 for the HD Tivo. The lack of a DVR from Voom
> is a concern, but not paramount (more for my wife than for me).
>
> What I want to know is who does the installs in the Dallas Metroplex?
> I don't know if it is Installs Inc. or another company. Can anyone
> from the Dallas area fill me in on who did their install?
>
> Thanks to all of you for the good information.
>

Thats depending where you order the VOOM from, if you called Voom, its the Installs.Inc. contractor / or bidder does the installation for you.

If Installs. Inc. or any installation company do your VOOM installation, this is included up to 100' or maybe 125' cable from Dish and into one TV from one wall. If the installer did not get over 100' run of cable, he should not charge you for this, but the second run will.
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You should be able to get at least $150-$200 knocked off the HD receiver price from DirecTV just by calling and asking. Sometimes it takes a call or two to the retention department, but you can definitely do better than $350.
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You should be able to get at least $150-$200 knocked off the HD receiver
price from DirecTV just by calling and asking. Sometimes it takes a call
or two to the retention department, but you can definitely do better
than $350.


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Re: [VOOM] Re: Voom in Dallas

jschaff111@comcast.net Wrote:
> Installs,Inc did the install at my house in Plano. They did a good job.
>
>
> Their free installation when I got it was for them to disconnect the
> cable from my Comcast and use that cable to connect Voom. I did not
> want them to disconnect Comcast so he charged me $45 to run another
> cable line from the roof to the one TV that I use for Voom. I had
> wanted to run another line but he wanted more than that for the second
> so I did not do it.
>
> My install otherwise went great. I use the DVI input to my DLP TV and
> the component inputs for the Comcast to the tv. I do not watch VOOM
> that much because I have to get up and manually change the inputs on
> the TV and it takes a while. But when I do the picture is fantastic.
> I especially like the Worldsport channel. The HD soccer is so close to
> the action and so real. I had gotten the VaVaVoom but I cancelled the
> movies since I already got them in HD on Comcast.
>
> Too bad there are so few VOOMers nationally, only about 28000 I heard.
> Maybe all the advertising will help.
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
>
> In addition to your post here you might want to try posting on satguys
> in the "In Your Area" section. There are many posters in the
> Dallas/Texas thread that no doubt have the info you need. Hope you
> find out what you need to get a successful VOOM install!
>
> Good luck and A Happy New Year!
>
> Watching HDTV under mostly cloudy Seattle skies, Gill
>
>
> --- In VOOM@yahoogroups.com, "icehckylvr1960" <icehckylvr@v...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I have been following the threads of this group for several weeks
> now
> > and I am very seriously considering getting Voom. I have a
> Mitsubishi
> > 55" (WS55313) and would love to take advantage of the HD capability.
> I
> > currently have Direct TV and am not willing to spend $350 for the HD
> > receiver and $10.99/mo for HD channels. I also have the Direct TV
> tivo
> > and will not spend $999 for the HD Tivo. The lack of a DVR from Voom
> > is a concern, but not paramount (more for my wife than for me).
> >
> > What I want to know is who does the installs in the Dallas
> Metroplex?
> > I don't know if it is Installs Inc. or another company. Can anyone
> > from the Dallas area fill me in on who did their install?
> >
> > Thanks to all of you for the good information.
> >
>
> Thats depending where you order the VOOM from, if you called Voom, its
> the Installs.Inc. contractor / or bidder does the installation for
> you.
>
> If Installs. Inc. or any installation company do your VOOM
> installation, this is included up to 100' or maybe 125' cable from Dish
> and into one TV from one wall. If the installer did not get over 100'
> run of cable, he should not charge you for this, but the second run
> will.


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SpaceX has held talks with Boost's parent company EchoStar in recent months about launching its own signature wireless service through a deal with the company, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.
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It wouldn't surprise me to see Elon soon own all of DISH / Echostar in the future.
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Again, why would Musk want a TV Service, specially one that is losing over a million subscribers a year.

Phone service…maybe, but not TV.
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Again, why would Musk want a TV Service, specially one that is losing over a million subscribers a year.

Phone service…maybe, but not TV.
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I know he wants TV. He wants to deliver EVERYTHING to EVERYWHERE.
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Again, if so, why would he want Dish/Sling of all the providers?

He could deliver anything without actually owning, for example, watching the Lions game in my Tesla Y on it's screen via the YT app, while on the way to my future in-laws on Sunday.
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110/119 Listings Post 129 Transition (Updated 11/01/2026)

Over the past year I have been tracking the changes on Western Arc. The past 3 months have had a lot of changes that I posted in the other MPEG2 Western Arc shutdown thread. Now that 129 is (basically) out of commission, here is where Western Arc stands. This is just a national channel list, (no local channels) based off what I can see and what others have contributed. Thanks to everyone who has helped me come up with the locations of some of the channels – I would try and list all of you out, but I know I would forget someone! As has been suggested in other parts of the forum, it would be great to collect the spotbeam data for those who could contribute!

A couple of pieces of info:
  • Out of the 64 transponders between 110/119, there are currently 50 transponders that Dish is licensed to use. 22 are Spotbeams, 28 are ConUS transponders (14 transponders are licensed to DirecTV and Dish doesn't have access to them)
  • Those 28 ConUS transponders are divided as follows:
    • 10 are dedicated to National HD channels (ESPN, CNN, Disney Channel, etc). Dish is maxing out at 16 HD channels per transponder (note – in an earlier post I said there was one transponder with 17 HD channels, that was an error on my part. When I double checked my listings, one channel changed transponders). Before the transition, there was a maximum of 14 HD channels per transponder.
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    • 2 are a mixture HD PPV Movies/4k channels
    • 3 are set aside for HD Sports channels that are only on for live games (NBA League Pass, the PAC 12 alternate channels, some PPV events, etc); 3 SD PPV Sports Channels are there as well.
    • 7 are for SD and/or music channels. Dish is maxing out at 26 SD channels per transponder thus far on the SD transponders.
    • 5 transponders on 110 I have no channels listed but Dish operates. (they are labeled as ConUS on my chart below) There are other things that could be on those transponders, like RV Distant Networks, internal testing channels, etc, that I can't see. They might be able to be used for additional content, but I am not sure exactly what is on those transponders.
There are two transponders that have lower than normal SD channels – 110, TP 21 and 119, TP 19. Previously those transponders contained the programming guides that get downloaded from the satellite when the receivers download EPG. I assume that is where the programming guides are still downloaded from, thus less channels there.

When I talk about number of channels on a transponder, all my numbers are unique channels – for example, channel 101 and 199 are the same channel mapped to two different numbers, but in terms of space, only takes up 1 channel worth of bandwidth on the transponder.

Finally, I have to give Dish a ton of credit. When it was 110/119/129, Dish had 82 transponders they were using – it took a lot to get it down to 50 transponders and figure out where all the pieces were going to go. What are the things they did to get there? Here are the things I saw:
  • During this migration from 129, Dish converted 7 ConUS transponders on 119 into Spotbeams – that is how they ended up fitting on all the HD locals that used to be on 129. (for those interested, TP 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 are the ones that used to be ConUS on 119 that are now Spotbeam)
  • Removed almost all SD duplicate channels that are offered in HD
  • Converted remaining SD channels from MPEG2 to MPEG4
  • There are also 2 subtle things that changed from the HD channel perspective
    • At the beginning of the transition, Dish decreased the number of PPV Movie channels – prior to this transition the PPV channels HD PPV movies were 502-522; now they are 502-517.
    • At the beginning of April when MLB, NBA, and NHL regular seasons were all going on at the same time and this transition began, there were a ton of games "joined in progress" for the HD feeds. That wasn't common since the days before the full time HD RSN's. The reason for that was prior to the transition, Dish had 4 transponders set aside for HD Sports – 2 transponders was the bandwidth set aside from the HD RSN's before Dish dropped the RSN's, then 2 transponders were for alternate channels. Now we are down to 3 transponders for HD sports.
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Dish has officially removed all the locals from 119 and they are all on 110 now. TP 02, 04, 06, 08, 10 were all functioning as Spotbeams as of last week, but now they are ConUS.

This means all 21 transponders that Dish has access to at 119 are now ConUS.
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Dish has officially removed all the locals from 119 and they are all on 110 now.
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Might be a silly question, but does this mean ALL 29 TP's on 110 are positively spot beams now?
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Might be a silly question, but does this mean ALL 29 TP's on 110 are positively spot beams now?
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Nope - TP 1-13 are still ConUS on 110. Which is crazy...there are so many different spotbeams on the new 110 satellite compared to the older 110 or 119. Now, someone can correct me if I am wrong on this - but aren't there two satellites at 110 right now? If so, it looks like TP 1-13 are coming from the old satellite at 110 and 14 onward are spotbeams on the new satellite.
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Now, someone can correct me if I am wrong on this - but aren't there two satellites at 110 right now?
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Hopefully nelson61 can chime in on this one, because I'm not sure, either.
I guess the thing I'm really perplexed about, is if there are NO more locals - at least on spotbeams - on 119, then how DID they cram ALL the locals on 110 & NOT have ALL those x-ponders in SB mode by now?
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dishrich said:
Hopefully nelson61 can chime in on this one, because I'm not sure, either.
I guess the thing I'm really perplexed about, is if there are NO more locals - at least on spotbeams - on 119, then how DID they cram ALL the locals on 110 & NOT have ALL those x-ponders in SB mode by now?
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Here was a comment by nelson61 last year:
nelson61 said:
EchoStar 23 (Conus beam) will still be at 110W so there can be some Conus beam coverage from 110W depending on how many transponders they use for the spots.
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In the same thread, he gave all the kml files for the spotbeams to put on Google Earth, and it looks like there are a lot more spotbeams per transponder available than the old satellite. My gut is that there is just a more technilogically advanced satellite, and can handle more channels.

I would love an analysis of how many channels could be fit on all the spots!
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My gut is that there is just a more technilogically advanced satellite, and can handle more channels.
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My only trouble with that explanation, is the fact that they are wasting at least 1 TP (TP 10, to be precise) on a local market (part of the Chicago locals are on that TP) that could be used for more CONUS channels (namely more HD!)
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My only trouble with that explanation, is the fact that they are wasting at least 1 TP (TP 10, to be precise) on a local market (part of the Chicago locals are on that TP) that could be used for more CONUS channels (namely more HD!)
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I ran the Schedule S through ChatGPT to analyze the data quickly, and according to ChatGPT, the 16 transponders currently being used for SpotBeams on 110 is all that has been authorized by the FCC. So Dish might be using TP 01-13 for ConUS on 110 for the foreseeable future. If that is the case, Dish has a ton of space to bring in more HD channels nationally or use that bandwidth for something else.

I know my lists aren't perfect as I can't see all the test channels and behind the scenes channels, but for channels available to subscribers - there are no channels on 119 TP 01-08 and 10; and on 110, TP14 has only 4 channels. With Dish putting 16 HD channels per transponder right now, that is about 145+ slots for HD channels that are available if Dish does keep 110 as ConUS for TP 01-13.

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RTX Spark Laptops: $7,000 Disappointment?

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