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Voom No More

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the never-had-a-pvr-anyway dept.

RokaMoka writes "Today the world got a little fuzzier. Voom has announced thay they are shutting down. As a subscriber I can tell you they will be sorely missed, as they far better than the competition. For those of you who are not familiar with voom, they had 3 times as many HiDef channels as the next competitor and a really nice remote control. It sure was pretty while it lasted." I think they died because they don't have a PVR. Hi-Def folks are early adopters and they want the technology. Of course, with all the mess swirling around DirecTV's move to Mpeg4 and the obsolesence of the HD-Tivo, it will be interesting to see what happens next.

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  1. Not quite by BillsPetMonkey · · Score: 0, Troll
    Today the world got a little fuzzier
    No, today America got fuzzier. Yes, there is a difference.
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    "It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
    1. Re:Not quite by BillsPetMonkey · · Score: 0, Troll

      Only a republican could think that the difference between the world and the US is 'nit-picking'.

      You'd be funny if you didn't actually mean that comment.

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      "It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
  2. Re:Good Riddance. by Guppy06 · · Score: 0, Troll

    "since we got paid more for Voom than for Dish... but we couldn't in our good conscience sell that piece of crap."

    How unAmerican.

    "What a waste of bandwidth."

    It's my understanding that that statement can describe HDTV programming in general and not just Voom.