dragon002 said:
vurbano,
i am a tech installing voom and directv
and for once there is someone on here that is spouting facts and not rumors or hype and you are having a brain fart!! HD is anything above 480, get used to it!!
pradike,,,,,thank you!!!
voom isnt all that, unless you like to pay to be a beta tester.
dragon
All Voomers were beta testers.
No, thank you...for reinforcing the fact that folks like vurbano and his band of 8-9 negative Voomers revolve around various message boards preaching "Voom uber allas" propaganda that INTENTIONALLY misleads, distorts, and plain lies about the state of HDTV today. Ever since he and his posse got into the Voom game, they have posted thousands of propaganda posts on how great Voom is and how lousy D*TV and Dish are...despite the fact that Voom has always been and continues to be one of the biggest technology failures in US history. Apparently, their strategy has always been to try and save face for choosing a doomed provider (as Voom guinea pigs) by bringing down everyone else, as well as regularly distorting the truth. Terms like "HD lite" and "downrezzing" are buzzwords thrown around by them to overshadow the facts and mislead people who have a legitimate interest in HDTV.
To set the record straight:
HD Lite - a made-up bogus term - HD is classified as 720P or higher - read about it in almost publication that can spell. D*TV and DISH both meet and exceeds that standard.
Downrezzing - reducing imagery from its original format is commonplace and an accepted practice - every 480i DVD and HDTV (720p or 1080i) video image has this done to it - the fact is that original film is far superior to ANY HDTV standard today, so ALL HD video is actually "downrezzed", if one insists on being anal.
Compression - often used to confuse people and replace "downrezzing" in a sentence by the negative D*TV and/or DISH zealots. Again ALL providers user compression to delivery X amount of imagery and sound via their existing bandwidth. This is not a static situation, rather, it various based on bandwidth availability, provider requirements, and other factors. There IS variety on how different folks do this, but with the advent and delivery of MPEG4 starting this year, D*TV will actually be at the forefront of what can be done in this area (as compared to toehr providers). Couple this with 2 new HD sats this year and 2 others thereafter, and the bandwidth D*TV has wiell blow away anyone else by an exponential rate.
dragon002 said:
and directv is LAUNCHING the most powerful sats ever built, and for what, nothing???
they are doing this HD thing right, slowly and methodically , so it is right from the get-go. why rush garbage to market ala voom???
ive seen posts on the various sites saying that voom will pass directv in subs, when, ? in 2525??? AINT GONNA HAPPEN!! dragon
The goal of the Voomer zealots clearly has always been to confuse people enough to migrate over to their brand of choice. The numbers already prove that this approach has been a miserable failure in every way. After almost 2 years "in business", they haven't even reached 50% of their FIRST year goal of subscribers. Now Cablevision is pulling the plug. This further upsets the apple cart for this group, and so their venting channel is the message boards.
Anything that comes out of the mouth of one of these 8-9 detractors should be taken as nothing but negative, distorted rhetoric.
Hopefully, people such as you continue to provide viable contributions and information here. Folks who want HDTV should get facts, not criticism, intentional propaganda, or misleading mumbo-jumbo lingo.
Thanks for setting the record straight, dragon.
