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    The Satellite War is ON!

    That's only one possibility, sometimes in business war, competition get's eliminated or marginalized and that's not good for the consumer. An all out war could lead to a monopoly, and in the current regulatory climate where all sorts of unintended consequences are happening, don't hope for the...
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    VOOM Links with lots of good DOCS!

    Jan 8-11, 2004 Las Vegas http://www.cesweb.org While we should have all realized this, it was quite interesting to discover that Installs, Inc. customer is VOOM , not us. Sometimes people think that the installers are working for them, but in fact, they are working from VOOM. The...
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    Sometimes I wonder - A Scott Comentary

    Compared to the total population of TV owners, HDTV owners are smaller. But as I posted earlier there are about 6 million current HDTV ready customers with no provider, and this is fastest growing set of customers. I wonder how this set of potential customers compares to the set of SDTV users...
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    Sometimes I wonder - A Scott Comentary

    HD momentum IT is true that currently HD is a small niche market. However, if you look at the trends, it is also the fastest growing set market out there. 1) Production capability for HD is growing rapidly, see this URL: http://www.hdtvbuyer.com/2003/12_dec/news/cw_discreet_q3hd.htm 2)...
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    Software Version 7.80 Spooling For Model 6000 Receivers

    corrupted guide Thanks stacy, In my case, apparently after enough time has passed the guide has gone back to normal. I will remember the smart card trick, however, the next time this happens and I don't want to wait days. Back to the remote problems. Has anyone heard of a pronto fix...
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    Scott's Take on VOOM

    simplicity I think the 'HD' add-on would be a good idea if it were not for the extreme complexity such a situation would present. If we assume that VOOM really is posistioning themselves to capitalize on the HD set expansion predicted going forward (and that would explain their placement...
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    Local Sears Voom Reports...

    Ann Arbor Sear's store at Briarwood Mall in Ann Arbor, Mi. They had a semi-working system on launch day, but I could never get a full screen of anything, only the little pre-view window in the guide would work. Everytime you tried to 'watch' a channel, the system would either say can't find...
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    Software Version 7.80 Spooling For Model 6000 Receivers

    guide corruption Over this weekend I moved the 6000 off a local OTA HD channel to a SD sat chanel. I waited a bit and then went to the guide. It was really corrupted. I had PPV entries on basic channels and foreign entries all over the place. I decided to wait a few hours and see if it...