[VOOM] OTA Orgy

[Stan Sexton]

Hey, Guys! The OTA Tuner in the Mot STB is just an add-on. It's a gift and
it's limited in scope. It's sort of thrown in a hole in the box. Almost an
afterthought.
If you truly want SELECTION and CONTROL of OTA, forget the Mot STB "Tuner"
module and buy a decent OTA standalone box like Samsung makes. Then no one
will control your channel choices. You'll probably get more channels because
the stand alone OTA Tuners have got to have better front ends than the tiny
Mot "module".
VOOM is for Satellite HD. I believe VOOM regrets ever opening the OTA can of
worms. It costs them a ton of money in service calls just for OTA problems.
And that is not even their focus.
So quit bitchin about OTA. Buy a good antenna like a Wineguard HD 9095P, a
preamp like an AP4700, a 20 ft mast and rotor and do it right.
This OTA problem will eventually go away as all HD sets after 7/01/04 have
built-in OTA tuners. I'm sure VOOM can't wait for your old set to blow up
and force you to buy a new one.
In the meantime, please don't bankrupt the best source of HD Satellite TV
because of your trite local OTA lust. Thanks.
Stan in San Diego
stanathomesell@cox.net




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[Eph Fithian]

Totally agree. The current leader of the pack is the LG Electronics
LST-4200A HDTV Receiver ($299). This receiver gets NTSC, ATSC, and
cable HDTV, and concurrently supplies a 480i output to a normal tv.

For antennas and preamps, check out Blonder-Tongue. Stark Electronics
has them. Be prepared to spend some bucks for this cable headend
quality. Broadband UHF antenna is about $140, and the corresponding
preamp is about $200.

Eph

On Aug 15, 2004, at 3:05 pm, Stan Sexton wrote:

> Hey, Guys! The OTA Tuner in the Mot STB is just an add-on. It's a gift
> and
> it's limited in scope. It's sort of thrown in a hole in the box.
> Almost an
> afterthought.
> If you truly want SELECTION and CONTROL of OTA, forget the Mot STB
> "Tuner"
> module and buy a decent OTA standalone box like Samsung makes. Then
> no one
> will control your channel choices. You'll probably get more channels
> because
> the stand alone OTA Tuners have got to have better front ends than
> the tiny
> Mot "module".
>

> Stan in San Diego
> stanathomesell@cox.net



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[Chris Green]

To be quite honest I would not have considered VOOM if it were not for the
OTA tuner. That was the deciding factor. If I had been required to buy a
$200-300 OTA tuner I would have stuck with cable.

Chris Green


-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Sexton [mailto:stanathomesell@cox.net]
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 2:05 PM
To: VOOM@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [VOOM] OTA Orgy

Hey, Guys! The OTA Tuner in the Mot STB is just an add-on. It's a gift and
it's limited in scope. It's sort of thrown in a hole in the box. Almost an
afterthought.
If you truly want SELECTION and CONTROL of OTA, forget the Mot STB "Tuner"
module and buy a decent OTA standalone box like Samsung makes. Then no one
will control your channel choices. You'll probably get more channels because
the stand alone OTA Tuners have got to have better front ends than the tiny
Mot "module".
VOOM is for Satellite HD. I believe VOOM regrets ever opening the OTA can of
worms. It costs them a ton of money in service calls just for OTA problems.
And that is not even their focus.
So quit bitchin about OTA. Buy a good antenna like a Wineguard HD 9095P, a
preamp like an AP4700, a 20 ft mast and rotor and do it right.
This OTA problem will eventually go away as all HD sets after 7/01/04 have
built-in OTA tuners. I'm sure VOOM can't wait for your old set to blow up
and force you to buy a new one.
In the meantime, please don't bankrupt the best source of HD Satellite TV
because of your trite local OTA lust. Thanks.
Stan in San Diego
stanathomesell@cox.net






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[rkr0923]

you're full of it!

 

[jawilljr]

you're full of it!

You are rkr...

Jerry

 

[Scotty]

As silly as it may be, the thing I like about the ota included in voom, is not having to change inputs to watch ota! I know, it's just a button push to switch to another feed, but I like the smooth channel surf of ota included with voom. I'd like all my feeds combined into one smooth channel surf, in which I could arrange the order of the surf myself. What we need is a receiver bus. A box that would just act as a bus between different types of receivers. With slots for 6 or more recievers, slide a reciever card in, and get voom, or ota, or dish, or cable, etc. Then software that would allow you to tailor your own surf order and pick your own channels among all those receiver cards. Now that would be cool.

 

[FrankJo]

Silly Rabbits..

The reason I got Voom is for the HD AND the built in tuner.

Voom's selling point is the integration of all these things into one box. I believe that that is what the "average joe" (HDTV) consumer wants. We want our HD, but we dont want to be fiddling around with this input, that box, this antenna, blah blah blah. If I want channel 4, I hit "04". If I want Fox news, I hit "412" (then become angry because of all the LIES) - seamless integration is a good thing.

 

[jnardone]

Hi:
I bought VOOM because it integrates everything as well. I would also note that when I thought my VOOM OTA antenna wasn't working as well as it should I borrowed a current model Samsung OTA tuner from a friend. With the Samsung tuner I wasn't able to pick up any additional channels or the current channels any better. (it was the one that sells for $299.00)
Joseph

 

[slick1ru2]

To be quite honest I would not have considered VOOM if it were not for the
OTA tuner. That was the deciding factor. If I had been required to buy a
$200-300 OTA tuner I would have stuck with cable.

Chris Green


$200- $300 was going to be the charge just to get an antenna up on my roof and fish the wall! OTA was my main reason for getting Voom. And actually the FCC has ruled that 50% of TV sets with screens of at least 36 inches (not all TV sets) must have 8-VSB/QAM tuners by July 2004, with complete tuner coverage in that size class by July 2005, while the requirement for smaller sets and digital VCRs would be phased in from 2005 to 2007.

 

[Seawaves]

"Trite OTA lust"? Lust yes, trite no. Without all Voom's compression my OTA HD is far better than every HD channel that Voom brags is the best.

I took your advice and got a much better OTA box..with DirecTV (can you HDnet???) bulit in. Made by Sony and puts the Moto STB to shame. Voom claims to be bleeding edge but we are supposed to say thank you for a junk OTA module that Voom has thrown in? Get real.

 

[Bob Mankin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seawaves [mailto:Seawaves.1b9aew@nobody.satelliteguys.us]
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 3:04 PM
> To: VOOM@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [VOOM] OTA Orgy
>
> I took your advice and got a much better OTA box..with
> DirecTV (can you
> HDnet???) bulit in. Made by Sony and puts the Moto STB to
> shame. Voom claims to be bleeding edge but we are supposed to
> say thank you for a junk OTA module that Voom has thrown in? Get real.
>
>
> --
> Seawaves


How does this Sony box put the Moto STB to shame? What specific issues have
you encountered with the Voom OTA module that were fixed with the Sony box?

Bob




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