Rainbows Satellite Service to be named VOOM!

Dgenx321 said:

39 HD Channels!!!!!

If this indeed true Dish will be the follower in Sat HDTV!

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HD Rave - The first music television channel in HDTV.

· HD Ultra - Fashion TV, home design, & travel. Leading worldwide fashion designers and shows as well as insider tours of the trendiest restaurants, hotels, home and gardens.

· HD Gallery - World of art, architecture and cultural performances.

· HD MOOV - a channel where the view constantly changes. A continuous flow of imagery set to music. Real world scenes such as nature walks; a fireplace; a field trip through many major cities.

· HD Animania - Animation of all sorts. Children and families animation shorts feature films and cartoons. Also cutting edge video game shorts.

· HD VOOM News - News, weather and sports updates 24 hours a day.

· HD Cinema 10 - 10 different channels of movies in HD. Each channel features one title playing throughout the day. So you can choose between 10 different movies each day.

· HD Epics - Cinema and performing arts programming. Lush costume dramas to stunning dance performances. Literary epics and sweeping cinematic dramas including programming like a season pass to Lincoln Center, BAM, and the BBC.

· HD Monsters - All horror, thrillers and sci-fi in HD. Titles such as Horror of Dracula and Frankenstein, to Freddy and Jason. Also the KillaThrillaZilla-thon, a marathon of Godzilla movies.

· HD Rush - Fast moving action sports. Extreme surfing, kite surfing, heli-skiing, mountain biking and mountain boarding to name a few.

· HD Worldsport - The Wide World of Sports meets the wide world of HD. A diverse lineup of top events from around the world. With live, exclusive presentations of the finest soccer action in the world from the top two soccer leagues Italy and Spain. Plus track and field, motor sports,
horse racing, cycling, Grand Prix, sailing and more

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motjes2 said:

Gee... where did V* get all these channels? I never heard of them. Who is behind them. It sure will be an interested winter...

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In house, I'm pretty sure. Cablevision owned. They sound pretty cheesy to me, especially for $40 p/mo.

Andy

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motjes2 said:

I also though about this V* dbs service while reading a new flyer that CV sent me yesterday offering digital cable and HDTV channels.

VOOM, maybe new but it is the same people that

(a) took two years to bring digital cable to my neighborhood.

(b) were charging me for two accounts in my house because it was legally defined as a two family house (when I switched to E* this was not the case).

(c) are taking forever to bring any new HDTV channels. They now carry HBO, SHO, MSG & FXSPNT, CBS, FOX, & PBS. They are still missing all the other channels. Just to remind me that MSG & FoxSpornet only trasnmit HD when Knicks, Rangers or Mets play home.

(d) own the Knicks who have done so much harm to the franchise by trying to get a playoff team and not a championship team.

(e) charge $7/movie for VOD.

and I am sure I can find others...

So after thinking about it. I will not put too much weight on this new service until they get more credibility. In the past, CV has not been very creditable at all.

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