Eric_Connelly
Second Unit
- Joined
- Nov 25, 1999
- Messages
- 460
I had Voom installed this morning.
Install went decent, guy took his time and cleaned up pretty well.
He had a problem with a bad part and had to replace it before he got the system up and running.
Initial impressions, remote and unit are a PITA to use, where is the GUIDE button??? You have to Pick Voom and then the entire line up or special Voom packs to get the guide up.
It gets easily confused if any part of the Info or Guide is up and you try to put in a 3 number channel, it keeps wanting to revert to the channel you are on after you hit the 3rd number.
Picture quality is excellent and their OTA portion is many times better than the other OTA's when viewing SD programming.
For picture quality and programming quality its pretty decent, assuming that the HD Movie channels run through a good series of movies and I'm not watching the same thing 10 times per week.
My only real complaint is the box, its slow, its annoying to use, and it has alot of user interface flaws. For those who complained that the DirecTV HD boxes were slow or annoying to use this is worse.
I'm happy that I'm renting the unit now since I'll wait for a superior one to show up and get them to swap it out.
Some people may not have the patience to use this, especially someone who is not a HD fantatic and just wants to watch TV.
But it is mostly HD, pic quality is great, OTA is great espescially for how far out I am, those are 2 things that generally will not improve(ala DirecTV), but the boxes can improve and hopefully they will.
Install went decent, guy took his time and cleaned up pretty well.
He had a problem with a bad part and had to replace it before he got the system up and running.
Initial impressions, remote and unit are a PITA to use, where is the GUIDE button??? You have to Pick Voom and then the entire line up or special Voom packs to get the guide up.
It gets easily confused if any part of the Info or Guide is up and you try to put in a 3 number channel, it keeps wanting to revert to the channel you are on after you hit the 3rd number.
Picture quality is excellent and their OTA portion is many times better than the other OTA's when viewing SD programming.
For picture quality and programming quality its pretty decent, assuming that the HD Movie channels run through a good series of movies and I'm not watching the same thing 10 times per week.
My only real complaint is the box, its slow, its annoying to use, and it has alot of user interface flaws. For those who complained that the DirecTV HD boxes were slow or annoying to use this is worse.
I'm happy that I'm renting the unit now since I'll wait for a superior one to show up and get them to swap it out.
Some people may not have the patience to use this, especially someone who is not a HD fantatic and just wants to watch TV.
But it is mostly HD, pic quality is great, OTA is great espescially for how far out I am, those are 2 things that generally will not improve(ala DirecTV), but the boxes can improve and hopefully they will.