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Thread: Baimun's DISH vs VIACOM letter (Page 2 Update: Baimun's a bit less pissed off)

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    Michael, are you really happy with Voom? I looked at their lineup....A lot of their HD channels are questionable...like 10 channels of B-movies? Stiil...I've been tempted for a while to get Voom. They have good deals going on now with $499 and free HD air tuner (which I can't use...too far away from cities), but I would still have to carry cable or keep one Dish receiver so I get local channels...then I'm looking at two TV bill a month....gets too complicated, which is why I never invested in the Tivo stuff...too much revolving around TV.

    Michael....How happy are you with Voom? Any downsides?

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    Originally posted by baimun:
    I'm telling you... the only way to win will be the MILLION MEDIA BLACKOUT!!!!!

    Maybe get a website like MILLIONMANBLACKOUT.com or something.... get at least ONE MILLION homes to cancel their satellite and cable TV for one month.....

    We can see if a $40,000,000 kick in the crotch gets their attention.
    <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Great idea, but that's asking a lot of the great unwashed public. You would have thought America would have taken a stand against the baseball strike a few years ago. So many people bitched about the greed, but won't give up season tickets.

    We're sheep.

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    The HD stuff is great - depends on your definition of B movies. Stuff like the high def remastered Dawn of the Dead was on there last month, and the line up of movies continues to improve. Let's face it, they just started in November.

    The best exclusive channel they have is the Monsters HD stuff. The others are still meh. But then you get two feeds of HBO HD, StarzHD, Cinemax HD, Encore HD (starts next week), Discovery HD, Movie Channel HD, Showtime HD...and they are supposedly adding ESPN soon.

    The SD stuff still lacks a few channels I want, like Sci-Fi, USA and HGTV, but they're coming along. They've been adding stuff fairly regularly. Oh, and Playboy HD is supposed to be starting any day ;-)

    The antenna option works fine for me to get all my local channels in HD, including CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, WB, UPN and FOX (pseudo HD), and that's actually where I watch MOST of my HD stuff. But it's nice to be able to flip on a flick any time of the day as well, and the selection across all those stations isn't bad. I'm still using cable too though - my two reasons are still because I need a couple final SD stations that I mentioned, and because I have three more TV's to hook up, and Voom's answer there isn't quite what I want yet.

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    Thanks for the feedback MC!

    That's a pretty good report...of course, you write reviews every day! lol...

    I recently upgraded my DVD player to progressive scan, and boy was I shocked by the difference in quality! It's like every DVD is in HD now....I have a lot of DVD's so we use our TV downstairs mostly to watch movies...and the occasional HD movie on HBO or Showtime.

    We currently get in HD:
    Showtime
    HBO
    HDnet
    HDmovies
    Discovery HD
    PPV
    And we used to get HD CBS up until 2 days ago. That pissed us off pretty good.

    Overall the current channels show enough to show off the TV, but not enough to get our asses planted in front of it for the evening if nothing is scheduled. How many times can we watch a tiger eat an antelope in HD fercrissakes?!?

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    Originally posted by baimun:
    Hate to break it to you Jor... but they're not a band anymore. The one chick died.

    &gt;Imagines Jor prancing around the Jor-stead singing "Don't... go... chasing waterfalls..."&lt;

    [img]confused.gif[/img]

    &gt;shudder&lt;
    <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">the who with the what now's not a band anymore? What the hell you talking about? [img]confused.gif[/img]

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    Originally posted by Joranthalus:
    Just leave me TLC and i'm cool with that [img]smile.gif[/img]
    <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">tlc

    Don't go chasin' waterfalls...
    Leave them to the yadda yadda yadda sum sumthin..


    [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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    Wink

    You know Jor only listens to Nickelback, Styx, and top 40 radio hits....

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    Originally posted by baimun:
    </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Joranthalus:
    Just leave me TLC and i'm cool with that
    <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">tlc

    Don't go chasin' waterfalls...
    Leave them to the yadda yadda yadda sum sumthin..


    forums
    </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oooooh! I remember them now! Forgot about that... TLC... hehe... Man they sucked... but they were ook to look at forums

    Don't pee in Chaser's waterbowl
    Leave it pee free-hee ...
    forums

    Actually, though, i don't think i've ever heard that song... Did they sing that "Stick it real good" song?

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    Originally posted by Skull-n-Bones:
    You know Jor only listens to Nickelback, Styx, and top 40 radio hits....
    <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">don't forget the classic rock! RUSH! YEAH! Of... salesmen.... OF SALESMEN!!!!

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    YEAH! Spirit of the radio...

    TO THE EXXXTRRREEEMMMEEEE.......!

    (PUTS ON SHADES AND mEMBERS ONLY JACKET)

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