kelljc said:
Very good work: but my point has been made, Who will buy voom for NFLnetwork"HD",or Spice a XXX service?. Hdnet and hd net movies would be good. come on this is 2005 there are no other services worth the investment as of this Date, don't you agree??. or should "Voom" add WealthTV,NFL,Outdoor . for what reason? to spend money on Channels that very few would watch?. I live in the midwest, and I go hunting never have watch Outdoor that's for non sportsmen who only dream of what could be?.
Sorry forgot to Add I love "Voom" as it is now could it be better?. E & D should hope "Voom" Dies, then they can give all of you nonvoomers what you want " Nothing" . and yes I'm now at >09 " Blow and Go "
My understanding was that personal animosity between Dolan and Cuban precluded there being any chance of Voom carrying HDNet. As in, Dolan would like to see Cuban burned alive slowly while rats gnawed off his appendages. Hence, wishing for HDNet on Voom is about as useful as wishing for little green leprachauns to come flying out of our STBs flinging gold coins at us like confetti.
And, I'm confuzzled by this Outdoor Network thing -- why's it Outdoor Network 2? Do they also have an Outdoor Network #1 in HD somewhere that we don't know about?
I actually enjoyed a few shows on the outdoor network, waaaaay back in the day, when I was an E* customer. Thing is, they had some of the lowest PQ of anything on TV, and it wasn't the satellite. Some of 'em you could see the bad crossbar noise & such from poor VHS to VHS duplication. Like they shot their footage on home video cameras. Seems kinda silly to broadcast that material over HD. But it's been more'n a year now since I've had E*, so maybe the Outdoor Network changed in the interim.
Frankly, I don't much care what channels they roll out, I mostly hope they don't waste a bunch of bandwidth with local-area channels. Every time I see the DirecTV add where they talk about how they're about to roll out 1,500 HD channels, I feel like throwing inanimate objects. Such talk merely proves most Voomers fears true: That HD to the "big" satellite providers will just be more watered-down, compressed-beyond-all-recognition CRAP that leaves local broadcasters with no incentive to return to the days of actual OTA broadcast (I'm not sure why we even call them broadcasters any more, since so few of them take the OTA part of their OTA license seriously until you try to take it away from them) and leaves most Americans with a mediocre imitation of HDTV. One little improved over the 480p you can get from a $40 DVD player, and one which leaves those same Americans asking, "So how come we had to hear about how great this new-fangled HD stuff was, anyhow? Don't look all that much better 'n what we used to have."
I only get ONE local channel OTA which is true HD, thanks to multicasting. Voom had a capacity for, what, a little over 40 HD channels if that was all they carried on their one bird? So, for D* to offer 1,500 HD channels, I guess they'll be putting 30+ birds up.
Riii-ight. Like I said, this is just proof that to the rest of the world, HD is a hollow shell. A sales pitch, and no more. I hope like heck Voom doesn't ever succumb to that kind of mediocrity-for-the-masses approach.
