Provider Question

[CHIEFTWAN]

Would anyone recommend using Voom as a service provider? I'm considering switching from Dish, and need info before I commit to V* Will V* be around for the next year?

[Mike D-CO5]

nope!

[bryan27]

Yes! Voom is all I have and I'm happy with it.

[Mikey]

Would anyone recommend using Voom as a service provider? I'm considering switching from Dish, and need info before I commit to V* Will V* be around for the next year?There are no guarantees that VOOM, Dish, DirecTV, or West Virginia will be around next year. Choose based on what they can provide for you NOW.

[stonecold]

stay away from voom and there crappy upconverted crap.

As much as I hate dish network for there lack of hd channels Dish HD looks better than Voom HD. Except on true hd channels like discoverhd. Where it about the same. But too much upconverted crap for my taste. My Sony does shows every upconverted artifact. Where it is crystal clear on Dish.


Voom is doomed anyway.

[CHIEFTWAN]

Thanks Stonecold, that is the type of information that I was looking forl

[sleeplessInSunnyvale]

If you're talking about the Voom original movie channels, here is what I found from another forum:
"As we have seen the improvement of HD Cinema, I like to give you the heads up on the following: (this information comes from the highest level of people asking for the movies and playing the HD Cinema movies)

(1) Any movie in HD Cinema that is dubbed is because the originator of the movie has only one version without subtitles.

(2) All new (titles) movies (after 1/1/2005) will be presented in OAR unless the originator of the movies does not have an OAR version.

(3) Any (title) movie, in the past, that was not presented in OAR, WILL NOT be presented in OAR."

There was also another statistics that said about 80% of the movies shown so far on Voom are in OAR. Now StarzHD & TNTHD do show a lot of upconverted movies, but then that is not really Voom's fault.

For the non-movie Voom original channels, they are true HD.