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05-12-2008, 12:23 PM
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Joe E
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Dish Network Launches More National HD Channels
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05-12-2008, 03:51 PM
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Re: Dish Network Launches More National HD Channels
Thank you for the heads up. I didn't even know we were getting all these new channels until you posted this. Thanks again!!! 
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05-12-2008, 04:26 PM
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Crawdaddy
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Re: Dish Network Launches More National HD Channels
Dish had to do something as DirecTV has up the ante when it came to HD channels.
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05-12-2008, 06:00 PM
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Re: Dish Network Launches More National HD Channels
Even though it took a little longer to get these channels, now the line-ups from Dish and DirecTV are pretty comparable.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
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05-13-2008, 04:44 AM
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Crawdaddy
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Re: Dish Network Launches More National HD Channels
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Even though it took a little longer to get these channels, now the line-ups from Dish and DirecTV are pretty comparable. |
Not for long, DirecTV has a new satallite in orbit that will be coming on line sometime in the next couple of months.
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05-13-2008, 09:06 AM
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Re: Dish Network Launches More National HD Channels
... and the following day, removes 10 of the 15 Voom channels.
They removed Filmfest and Voom Movies, but kept Kung Fu. Go figure.
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05-13-2008, 10:37 AM
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Re: Dish Network Launches More National HD Channels
Well, to be fair, most of those Voom channels were a waste of bandwidth anyway. I'm just glad they kept Rave and Equator as those were the only ones I ever watched anyway.
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05-14-2008, 09:29 AM
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Re: Dish Network Launches More National HD Channels
Dish removed the last five Voom channels.
This may be a ploy by Dish to get Voom to spend money on new programming instead of the constant repeats, and perhaps to compress the best of the 15 channels into ffewer channels.
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05-14-2008, 09:51 AM
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Robert A. Fowkes
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Re: Dish Network Launches More National HD Channels
I was not aware, until I read this, that the VOOM channels are no longer on Dish. That's a shame, because I really enjoyed several of these channels. They were repetitive, of course, but there was enough content to pique my interest.
And to me this constant numbers game between Dish and DirecTV for King of the Hill status in the number of stations is really a non-issue. Once you get over 50 or so HD channels you are probably saturating the marketplace (unless a particular channel is not available on one service). Both companies have a larger number of true HD offerings (I don't count "on-demand" individual offerings as real channels as cable does when inflating their HD channel numbers in a rather shady move in my opinion). What really counts for me to differentiate the two Satellite services (I've had them both) is the quality of their signal, the capability of their HD DVR boxes and the customer support. In that regard I rate Dish light years ahead of DirecTV on all counts based on personal experience.
Of course, if you must have the NFL package, then you are limited to DirecTV. Otherwise - no contest in my eyes.
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05-14-2008, 01:37 PM
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Joe E
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Re: Dish Network Launches More National HD Channels
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Dish removed the last five Voom channels.
This may be a ploy by Dish to get Voom to spend money on new programming instead of the constant repeats, and perhaps to compress the best of the 15 channels into ffewer channels.
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I sure hope your right. As it stands now and strickly speaking as an HD movie fan, I think the subscribers lost on this go round. Sure, we gained MGM but lost the VOOM channels Monster and FilmFest. Not a good exhange IMO.
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