there are 2 options, they either reduced the Voom to increase quality, or they reduced to use space for mpeg4 HD locals, option 2 doesn't make much sense at all, reduce 5 channels, how many Mpeg4 locals will that hold ??, 2 mpeg4 Cities max
George your Directv homerism is showing itself, Dish had all 21 Voom's even too the point of the uplink placeholders being up there, they switched all Voom to 1280x1080i
we complained like hell and then we up and get a announcement that Voom was to be reduced 15 channels
coincidence ?? who knows ??, Charlie did say for quality reasons
we will know in a day or 2
-Gary