Newsgroup: it.hobby.satellite-tv
Titolo: Voom

With all the TV manufactures pushing HI DEF in all the stores when in 
reality there is little to no real selection of programming available. They 
should buy Voom to keep the industry alive or who is going to support this 
format when only a few channels provide a signal in HI Def? The FCC made it 
maditory that networks be HI Def capable, Sets are selling...
Wheres the programming? Something has got to give. Theres no question the 
quality is there. The product is available and is crystal clear.......why 
are not the big compaines getting behind this? it cant be for lack of a 
market ...whats the deal? prices have fallen down to be affordable to almost 
everyone.... I just dont understand why no one is running to pick up the 
ball and run with it. 

 this format when only a few channels provide a signal in HI Def?
I just want to add to this picture. I work as a sound mixer for film and 
video in the Seattle area and I can tell you that the number of shoots I've 
been on lately that are HD have been increasing exponentially. I just shot 
the last two days for a TLC automotive show called Rides in HD and last week 
for two other national programs. This is very different from a year ago when 
all of these types of shows were still shooting Beta Cam SP. I think the 
number of HD channels is going to increase very soon. This years NAB show in 
April will have an explosion of affordable HDV cameras and editing tools and 
the content will surely follow. Look for all the reality shows to make a 
change in the next year as well as many of the cable/sat type shows. The 
providers I'm sure will follow shorty when the content arrives.
Charles Tomaras
Seattle, WA 

 Wheres the programming?
DUDE, WHERE'S THE PROGRAMMING????
The paint's barely dry on most ATSC transmitters and already CBS, NBC and 
ABC are almost exclusively HD at nights. Every cable pay movie service has 
HD and there are probably half-a-dozen other HD-only networks.
It's a good thing you weren't around in 1954 when NTSC color hit the market 
with tiny sets costing 1/4 of the average annual salary.
It wasn't until 11 years later in 1965 that NBC's night line up went 
"mostly" color - the first to do so. 

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 maditory that networks be HI Def capable,
I'm so sick of people getting this wrong.  The FCC mandated that
broadcasters broadcast digitally, but not necessarily Hi def.

"And while voom might have a great picture, the content is boring.  And
yes,
it IS because of lack of market.  Only a small minority of Americans
own HD
capable sets.  Hell, there's only 1 or 2 HD commercials ever
made....and
I'll leave up to you to guess why.
Learn how the marketplace works before you start these ignorant rants.
"
Vooms doom has a lot more to do with a dumb business model than it does
with
the number of HD capable sets.  Voom did not have most of the common SD
channels
that people already watch and have grown used to, eg CNN, FOX, History,
CNBC, MSNBC....
The people that are watching these on cable or sat had 3 choices,
1 - Switch to Voom and give up a lot of what they now watch (and cable
customers would also need to install a regular antenna to receive
locals in HD)
2 - Add Voom and have two service bills, deal with
installation/integration issues
3 - Do nothing
That most chose option 3 should be no surprise, especially when HD
content is expanding on cable/sat,
though not as fast as we all would like.

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