The people doing the technicals are busy lining up their personal future about now. I doubt they are concerned with developing new content for a channel on a server loop. But, they are being paid to do a job even with their 30 day notice, so changing the VOOM 700 channel with a still billboard announcement may happen but I doubt it. Personally I think it is low priority. First should be to yank all the VOOM advertising from other channels like the bombardment on Discovery and the like.
Server ad insertions are the easist to stop but embedded advertising is costly to remove.
I'm trying to decide what to put on the shelf, the empty shelf in the middle of my equipment rack where the VOOM receiver is now. I suppose I'll use it to build my hard drive horizontal rack for the D* HDTIVO.
I'll put the 61.5 dish back on E* and set it for WCBS again as I have a waiver for the NY channel.
What amazes me is there are so many of you who love to worry about dumb stuff. Like what to do with the equipment I lease. I'll help you put some worries to bed. Stop worring about it and spend your time figuring out what service to switch to. Cablevision/VOOM will let you know what to do with the hardware when the time comes. Hang onto it for the balance of 2005 but if they never come, just junk it. My neighbor still has his Primestar system sitting on a shelf waiting for them to come pick it up. I told him not to worry and just toss it. They won't be around.