This is an excerpt from the VOOM Nov. 22, 2004 press release,
" Rainbow Media Enterprises, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE:CVC), announced today that its year-old VOOM satellite service will dramatically expand in March of next year from its current 130 channels covering the continental U.S. (conus), including 39 high-definition channels, to an industry leading 350 full conus channels, including more than 70 high-definition channels."
It seams to me that even with the ten or so channels the CSR mentioned that we are still a few hundred channels short. I'm not sure what losing Rainbow I (if we lost Rainbow I) did but it seams like we should be getting more than ten SD channels. And even if we get the ten known remaining HD channels that is still twenty short of what VOOM has promised.
I'm not criticizing VOOM in the least. I'm just trying to get everyone, especially the newbies, to expect great things from VOOM. Us VOOM veterans know that VOOM may not always be on time with their promises but they have kept some pretty amazing promises.
When I first signed on with VOOM back in November of '03 VOOM promised to have 39 HD channels by February of '04. When February 1st rolled around VOOM was struggling to get 30 HD channels on the air. VOOM gave credits to us early adopters that stuck it out and now we have the 39 HD channels.
I'm a HD junkie just like most the other people in this forum. I want all those new channels just as bad as everyone else but I seldom anymore have difficulty finding something I want to watch in HD because of VOOM. VOOM is the best it's ever been and still outclasses any other service provider. Hopefully, VOOM will continue to stretch the envelope and give us the best HD service.