Discovery HD sucked last night!
Discovery HD was horrible last night! It was totally unwatchable. The stuttering was evident on EVERY scene unless everything onscreen was totally still.
I watched, Monsters last night and the PQ was excellent (other than some bad source material). I also watched World Sport and Rush HD and they all had excellent PQ. I did, however, notice the sparklies on the Comedy channel during South Park. Didn't like that much.
Also, turned everything on about 9:00 last night and had no PG info for any channels (OTA or Sat). I did have the channel names (except for the OTA channels). I restarted the box and it didn't seem to help. I checked around 10:00 and noticed it was all back (including OTA channels). Honestly, I can live with them tweaking the PQ for a while. It's understandable they'd be having a few issues with PQ being a new service and all. But why all the friggin problems with the Program Guide!!?? I mean, people have been offering PGs for many YEARS now. You'd think that would be one thing they'd be able to get right! If anything would make me cancel Voom it would be them not getting that worked out. Having that many channels without knowing what's on (unless you print a guide out) is useless to me.
I'm totally frustrated with this issue and I've only been Vooming for a little less than 3 weeks now. As I said, I can understand PQ problems, it would make sense they wouldn't have it perfect 100% of the time out of the box. But there is no rhyme or reason for the PG problems. This is what's so frustrating. Everytime I turn the set on I wonder, "Hmm, will I have PG info tonight..." I shouldn't have to deal with this in this day and age...
Also, I'm headed away for a long weekend to Colorado to go skiing this weekend. My wife told me to turn on DTV before I leave since she was so frustrated with Voom the other night. Now, in all fairness, she was trying to watch an OTA channel and there was a monsoon going on outside. However, when I had gotten home that night I noticed CBS (NYC) was unwatchable. Picture breaking up into pixels, freezing, etc. It wasn't really raining at that time although I'm not sure if it was raining in the City. Keep in mind, I live 10 miles away from the City so, typically, we have very similar weather. It's not like 50 miles away or something. Anyone else notice this problem the other night?
The Rickster
