Dish to announce special deal to get Voom customers

seahog

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Just talked to CS supervisor.
Dish to announce on May 1st a special offer for Voom customers.
 
Re: May 1st offer

I was scheduled for Dish Install tomorrow.
I called CS about the 2nd dish required for Voom HD channels.
It was recommended that I postpone install because a better deal for Voom customers will be announced May 1st.
Whatever incentives they offer there still will be a $5.00 per month for the Voom HD channels plus $9.95 for the Dish HD package.
 
Is the 2nd Dish on 61.5 worth one hundred bucks?

What else can we get, if we invest the $100.00.

(Gees, seems a lot for 10 channels of which I only watch equator and
RAVE on a regular basis..)
 
Will the dish even be used when all HD goes to Mpeg-4--other threads say no, so we have a $100 dish we can't use in about a year or so--not to mention the 942 HD -DVR that can't do Mpeg4 either.
 
That's my issue, too, bookwalk. I'm wondering if there is a way to just get the Voom channels. I can keep my cable PVR and switch to DISH whenever I feel like watching Voom Channels. All I need is to lease an 811 for free.
 
The news release stated that the HD would be free for the first 6 months. I would assume after that it would be the total of $15 for the HD pak+VOOM

It is interesting that the name VOOM was kept by CVC. There was speculation that the name was doomed to be doomed.
 
bookwalk said:
Will the dish even be used when all HD goes to Mpeg-4--other threads say no, so we have a $100 dish we can't use in about a year or so--not to mention the 942 HD -DVR that can't do Mpeg4 either.
Granted about the 942. Don't know why anyone would buy one before E* announces any upgrade plans for MPEG-4.

But the dish is another story. When the programming moves, swing the dish over to the new azimuth, tighten it down, go inside and watch TV.
 
mdonnelly said:
Granted about the 942. Don't know why anyone would buy one before E* announces any upgrade plans for MPEG-4.

But the dish is another story. When the programming moves, swing the dish over to the new azimuth, tighten it down, go inside and watch TV.

We will have 3 dishes from Dishnetwork--one at 61.5, Dish 500 toward 119 or whatever and one at 148 for 2 of the locals. (I won't in reality as I am not going to subscribe to Dish anymore). In addition, we still have the VOOM dish and another large 30" KU band dish for internet and THEN there's our C-band 10' dish--enough is enough--no more dishes--this is absurd.
 
bookwalk said:
We will have 3 dishes from Dishnetwork--one at 61.5, Dish 500 toward 119 or whatever and one at 148 for 2 of the locals. (I won't in reality as I am not going to subscribe to Dish anymore). In addition, we still have the VOOM dish and another large 30" KU band dish for internet and THEN there's our C-band 10' dish--enough is enough--no more dishes--this is absurd.
Okay, I get it. You don't want to go to the trouble for 10 more HD channels. Fine. No skin off my nose. I'm just saying the dish WILL have a use for SOME PEOPLE after MPEG-4 is activated.
 
mdonnelly said:
Okay, I get it. You don't want to go to the trouble for 10 more HD channels. Fine. No skin off my nose. I'm just saying the dish WILL have a use for SOME PEOPLE after MPEG-4 is activated.

With Mpeg 4, I doubt anyone would need 3 dishes.
 

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