Monsters HD online petition
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How many of the 13.8 million have hd? How many of them had every Hd channel. You cant go by the number of petition signatures. I think 1300 is really good. Even if you dont like the channels you have to admit it is not right the way they were just yanked, and its better to have variety rather than nothing. I am not a fisherman but I like that we have WFNHD because of variety.
You may be right there. Even if you accept the DISH argumetn outright---that they had a contract for 15 channels and VOOM breached it by not making the necessary investment --it is hard to see how DISH had a right to choose what channels it would carry or at what rate. Had VOOM agreed to this their case might well be weakened.
Even IF VOOM does not think they will prevail in court they might think that they will get a better deal if they hold out. If nothing else I am sure they want to decide what VOOM channels survive and not have DISH dictate that to them.
How many even know about the petition on top of that. I find it funny how when it comes to points of view, you forget the numbers that do not prove your point. The Voom basher will insist that only 1300 people care about Voom/monsters HD. The fact is when you factor the all the numbers the percentages improve. (hd tv subs with top tier on dish, number of people that read sat guys or are have internet access..for examples) Please If you do not care for Voom or Monster HD , that fine with me. Just do not assume your dislikes are law.
wrong denominator 13.8 millions do not have HDTVs
I asked this somewhere else earlier. How many of the 13.8 million have HDTV's.
Then of course there is a pretty big number that believe they are watching HD just because they have an HDTV but they only have the SD package. This crowd certainly don't look at this site of they would have a good idea what they are missing.
A local hospital near here, a doctors office waiting room and a pizza shop that I know of have HDTV's and all are stretching a SD signal.
How many HDTV owners look at this site? How many have stumbled onto the petition?
Answers to these questions are important and may be the reason the number of signatures isn't much higher.
There is a poll going on in another site that asks:
>Are you upset about the Voom takedown?
>You didn't care much about Voom.
>Didn't care one way or another.
>What is Voom?
The first 2 choices are running pretty much neck and neck. The last 2 are as well but with many fewer votes. Maybe 5% of the total.
I'm still finding myself thinking lets check to see whats on monsters, or to see what concerts are playing.
It has been a week since this petition has gone "live" and yet only 1,300 signatures? I think this petition is just showing that Dish (and Voom since Dish wanted to keep 5 Voom stations up, but Voom said all down or none down) did the correct thing, even if the way they went about it was wrong.
I wish I had the time to see how many names appear more than once, though. Just scanning a few of the pages I found a couple duplicates...more than likely due to lag on the website, but they are still counting toward the total number.
