Vooms second bird

[drod]

There is all this early speculation that Voom is dead and as much as everyone would love to see that Voom a couple months ago talked about putting up a second bird a while ago and the uplink that was purchased if I'm not mistaken is the newly rennovated one. That still leaves 1 the original. I heard rumors that that second bird was shot off 2 wks ago, any verification?

 

[jimmykce1]

I don't think rainbow 2 has been even built yet.

 

[Sean Mota]

It is not VOOM's own bird. It is a lease satellite (AMC6) at 72 (I think). 16 Tps were supposed to be leased. Of course, these will hold the capacity of Rainbow 1 but will not hold the capacity of what they were trying to accomplish with Rainbow 1 + AMC6 at 72 degrees. It is not very smart either to sell the satellite to the competition in hope to lease and then compete.

 

[DishSatUser]

Belongs to AMC. It was a lease deal for the AMC bird and use of AMC's uplink for those TP.

Voom doesn't have "any" Sats or uplinks now. Check out their SEC-K8 Filing, they are in the process of "disposal" now.

The service will continue to run during the transistion, but will eventually be like PrimeStar (another Cable company Sat venture and one reason I was always skeptical about Voom).

 

[GreatMac]

The service will continue to run during the transistion, but will eventually be like PrimeStar (another Cable company Sat venture and one reason I was always skeptical about Voom).

So, you missed out on a year or so of Voom's superior programming, because you were sceptical.... (I signed up for Dish back when people were sceptical about it as well).

We are all going to die, too....

Love your cat though

 

[MarcelV]

It is not VOOM's own bird. It is a lease satellite (AMC6) at 72 (I think). 16 Tps were supposed to be leased. Of course, these will hold the capacity of Rainbow 1 but will not hold the capacity of what they were trying to accomplish with Rainbow 1 + AMC6 at 72 degrees. It is not very smart either to sell the satellite to the competition in hope to lease and then compete.

Sean, did you get your HD-PVR today?

 

[DishSatUser]

Didn't miss anything actually, watched some of it on my neighbors VOOM. Honestly I didn't feel compelled enough to spend the extra to subscribe and to place another Dish on my roof.