Anyone have Voom southwest of The Cities? I am currently in Plymouth, but bought a house in Cologne (just South of Waconia or West of Chaska on 212). I currently have Comcast HD, but the only cable option in Cologne is analog cable with about 30 channels. Now that I've had HD, I sure can't live without it.
One other snag, it is an NRTC area, so I can't buy DirectTV at any of the local retailers. The prices through the provider seem about the same, but one negative is that they only HD box they have available is some RCA box for $699. I'd assume I could buy one of their packages, but buy just the HD receiver elsewhere, and just plug it in myself to my existing wiring. They don't do anything with OTA antennas either, so that would be another thing I'd have to worry about myself. Regardless of what I did, it would take some out of pocket money that I'd just as soon hold off on spending for a few months.
Anyway, considering this is our first house, and we'll be spending plenty of money elsewhere, I figure the free install + equipment is perfect for our situation. I think we'll still get cable so we can watch on TVs in other rooms of the house (bedrooms, etc). Only $25/mo for that, so I can live with that. If we aren't happy with Voom or cable, we can always spend the money later to get DirectTV.
Anyway, anyone out in that area have Voom to comment on the quality? I guess I'm mostly curious about the OTA quality that far away, and if it requires the updated antenna.
While I'm at it, anyone get a second receiver for an SD TV? Is the second receiver installed free also? We currently have HBO, and don't want to give up the programming, so it would be nice to be able to watch it on more than just the RPTV. I figure if the install is free, it's easier to get rid of the second receiver later if we don't use it much than it is to pay to add it (which would require a second installation). Then on that TV, we could watch those channels from Voom, but I wouldn't really need to split the OTA signal to that TV, because we could watch those channels from cable.
Does that seem like a logical thing to do?
I think I've talked myself into this - I really don't have anything to lose. If we really hate it, we can always get DirectTV in a few months...
Thanks for any input!
Scott