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  1. J

    Work Continues On Voom Satellites

    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...
  2. J

    NEWS FLASH: New Channels: LIFETIME Net, CMT, National Geographic,...

    So, cancel it -- there are 17 regional Fox Sports Net channels. So, for each Voom viewer to add ONE channel to their lineup, Voom would have to dedicate the bandwidth for SEVENTEEN channels. That'd be fine if we had oodles of bandwidth and nothing to do with it -- which may well be the case...
  3. J

    Harmonic Encoder Improvements? (Feedback Need it)

    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...
  4. J

    Need the Following information From Voom Subs

    JVC TV Component 1080i native
  5. J

    Battlestar Galactica coming to Universal HD?

    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...
  6. J

    What chanels will be added?

    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...
  7. J

    Thank You letters to VOOM and Charles Dolan

    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...
  8. J

    Compression / PQ / Argh.

    Oh, and I will say this -- my complaint seems a bit silly at this point. What with the imminent demise and all. Hadn't visited the forums in quite some time. Came because HBO's pixelation (actually, HBOHD-W) had been bad enough to irk the heck out of me last night, so I wanted to vent...
  9. J

    Compression / PQ / Argh.

    Thanks, Ilya :)
  10. J

    A suggestion to Chuck Dolan and VOOM

    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...
  11. J

    Compression / PQ / Argh.

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

    Compression / PQ / Argh.

    I've been using Voom since nearly the beginning. And, before anyone starts in -- no, there's no problem with how I've got my Voom box hooked up. I use component inputs (my TV doesn't have DVI inputs) and they allow for a very beautiful picture, generally speaking. Unfortunately, especially...
  13. J

    Voom F***ed up PG Strikes Again

    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...
  14. J

    HDnews LIVE coverage of Spaceship One Second Launch 10/4 @ 10am EDT

    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.
  15. J

    MVDDS: VOOM and Echostar going to France to see the model

    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...
  16. J

    FoxSport Channel Cleveland Region new channel next?

    Why in the bloody blue blazes is Voom using up bandwidth on local and regional channels? I thought Voom's stand all along had been that they were focused on delivering as much HD content as possible -- and that they'd only deliver as many cable channels as they could do without squeezing...
  17. J

    The 6412... a good HD PVR gone wrong.

    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.
  18. J

    VOOM DVR Preview Video now ONLINE!

    Seeing as the "Grand Scheme" for Voom is to use 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...
  19. J

    Program Guide Will Not Download

    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...
  20. J

    New Firmware Update - WHEN???

    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...
  21. J

    This is for VOOM: Please read (stb PQ)

    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...
  22. J

    would you like local channels by satellite on Voom?

    This is what I always understood to be the problem, as well. Polls like this only lead to more misinformation -- because they give people the mistaken notion that it's even POSSIBLE to provide HD network feeds via satellite. The cable companies and local stations banded together to make...
  23. J

    New Firmware Update - WHEN???

    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?
  24. J

    Voom ratings and parental control

    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...
  25. J

    New Theory About Microstutters...and Shocking News About Voom Guy Number 3's Father

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