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Is your local infrastructure shared due to some state or local regulation? Because, if not, this will all change very soon -- the Feds removed the regulations requiring telcos to share infrastructure with outsiders. My wife works for a local telco down here, and they had to lay off about 1/5...

...only a small portion of Voom subs can legally receive. Providing ten gazillion local channels over their birds is what truly tanked PQ for E* and D*. A process which will only get worse as they try to provide HD locals via satellite (an idea so stupid, it truly boggles the mind). Local...

03/08/2005 Time: Approximately 11:24 pm Eastern Time Channel: 606 (Cartoon Network) PQ Issue: Horrendous pixelation bands, ocassional image freeze. Pixelation would sweep across the screen in very thick horizontal bands, sometimes the entire width of the screen, sometimes just for a portion...

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It wasn't cut - it was commercial free. Gloriously, beautifully commercial-free. Sadly, now that it's aired, I can find no mention of any more Battlestar Galactica on UniversalHD's schedule stuff in the upcoming months -- I'd really, really hoped that as well as airing the pilot, they'd...

...#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...

Dear Mr. Dolan, Your vision was brave and beuatiful. Because of you, I've enjoyed a year filled with television the way it *should* be in the twenty-first century. With network affiliates multicasting in some ill-conceived desire to degrade their product so that it looks just as bad as...

...rise to cable television in the first place: lousy signal reception for local channels. Dish Network and DirecTV (or, guess I could call 'em E* and D* like most do 'round here) should've moved heaven 'n earth to push local stations to actually broadcast with those licenses. Instead...

Thanks, Ilya :)

That'd mean a lot of lost / wasted content. The Cinema 10 could definitely stand being squeezed down to a single channel, but I think a lot of Voom's other original channels are good enough to warrant survival on their own. Rave, News, Monsters and Animania are the ones which I think could...

No, not really -- not unless you can move the post over to the Customer Comments folder :D

...on robbing me of any decent material I could get out of them. The CBS affiliate, which used to have the benchmark feed for just how beautiful HD *could* be decided that what the world needed was a couple of lame 24-hour-a-day local spew channels... And now any time you watch a football game...

Yeah, this doesn't make ANY sense to me whatsoever. A program guide being wrong every so often -- that's understandable. After all, broadcasters change what show they're gonna run, decide not to tell you. But how the hell do you get your OWN CHANNELS WRONG? I mean, these are VOOM's...

Man, this live coverage is hella lame. Mostly seems to be them mentioning Spaceship One briefly, and then breaking away to the same recycled snippets about the weekend's football games 'n the NY Subway. I'd hoped for something continuous - like the coverage of the conventions.

This seems like a*very* good point. Why should we need to re-transmit local OTA brodcasts OTA? Are we basically implying here that local channels do such a HORRENDOUS job of transmission that it behooves the satellite providers to re-do the job for 'em? I mean, I think I could get behind...

...over Voom while we still have a considerably smaller selection of cable channels? What gives? Are we gonna have 10mb/s HD 'n re-broadcast of local network affiliates next? A hundred different college football PPV channels every Saturday, making the PQ on *every* channel drop through the...

What are they saying they haven't gotten set up properly in Baton Rouge? Just curious -- I've had Voom here in Baton Rouge for a while now, and since they finally got the locals right, have been pretty happy.

...Windows Media Player 9 with its super-compression to give us twice the content over the same pipe, I think providing this video in WMV format was *totally* appropriate. And, it's a good habit to put your logo on an online video, because online videos have a way of proliferating wildly...

Same here Box locked up so the remote wouldn't work, so did a soft reboot. Lost my program guide info. It hasn't come back (haven't had it since yesterday) Finally got so friggin' frustrated tonight (middle of the night), I decided I'd do a factory reset. Only to discover that trusty...

Didn't use to be the case, in the "good old days." DOS just plain worked -- it was like UNIX that way. Heck, solid-state electronics were that way for the most part, too... I know when I was a kid, you never would've imagined something like a cable box having a bug. It just worked -- until...

Yeah, noticed some noise on Equater, myself -- also in that London show. Also seemed like some other Voom channels were noisier than usual starting yesterday. Couldn't help wondering if Equator was given more bandwidth than Epics had (yet not enough for what it needed), and the bandwidth...

...The cable companies and local stations banded together to make sure that wouldn't happen. I don't think Voom, Dish Network and DirecTV *combined* would have the bandwidth for HD LIL (although I could be wrong on that). No matter what, LIL is a stuuuuuupid idea that punishes consumers...

Man, I'm ready for the update so I can scan for OTA. It's been annoying knowing that ABC is broadcasting locally in HDTV, and the Voom box won't pick it up. I wonder what idiot came up with the plan to map in the first place?

I'll say this much -- I'd definitely prefer to have channels that don't lock properly, rather than channels that use bludgeon-style censorship. The best example I ever saw of brainless censorship was one of those Naked Gun movies, on TBS or someplace similar. There's a scene where Leslie...

Dude. Wolverine's claws are ADAMANTIUM, not titanium. What the hell were you thinking? :D