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"Randy S." <rswittNO@SPAMgmail.com> wrote:

>Is Dish offering VOOM's old channels? How did they end up with that? I
>know VOOM finally went under, but didn't know what happened to them
>after that.
>
>Randy S.

OOPS! You asked how they ended up with VOOM channels and I forgot to
answer. DISH bought the satellite from VOOM and I guess that they
worked out a deal with their programming. The channels would have
just gone silent until the packages were sold to others so DISH had a
perfect opportunity to be first.

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> OOPS! You asked how they ended up with VOOM channels and I forgot to
> answer. DISH bought the satellite from VOOM and I guess that they
> worked out a deal with their programming. The channels would have
> just gone silent until the packages were sold to others so DISH had a
> perfect opportunity to be first.

Nice bonus for Dish customers! Yes, I'd always heard that the VOOM
signals were excellent. I wouldn't worry about them degrading unless
they try to push more channels through the VOOM satellite (which is
quite possible, I suppose).

Randy S.

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"Comcast, Warner, Cox, Charter and friends have scared away 25 million"

This is a logical fallacy. First of all, not everyone who has a digital
satellite package had the option between getting it or getting cable.
Plus, you're not taking into account people who got the satellite
package without ever having cable. And then there are the ones who got
it so they could get those cards off the internet or from friends so
they could get all the channels for free, illegally.To say that all
these customers that have digital satellite were scared away from cable
by the companies is just stupid.

And cable is still winning because it has more than a 65% of market
share- nearly 75 million subscribers.

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smaug86 wrote:

> "Comcast, Warner, Cox, Charter and friends have scared away 25 million"
>
> This is a logical fallacy. First of all, not everyone who has a digital
> satellite package had the option between getting it or getting cable.
> Plus, you're not taking into account people who got the satellite
> package without ever having cable. And then there are the ones who got
> it so they could get those cards off the internet or from friends so
> they could get all the channels for free, illegally.

And those that have DBS *and* basic cable.

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"Jack Zwick" <jzwick4@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:jzwick4-649EAF.21061708052005@news1.west.earthlink.net...
> In article <427E779C.C4099F17@home.com>, ric <nospam@home.com> wrote:
>
>> Jack Zwick wrote:
>>
>> > Sorry, Cable has zero credibility.
>>
>> And, you have lost yours.
>
> I am proud to be judged by the minority that would think so.

It's too bad that so many cable companies have provided such horrible
service to their customers. I am grateful that dish service exists, because
the cable companies are being forced to either improve their services or die
out.

I have had terrific service from my cable company, but clearly I am one of
the few cable subscribers lucky enough to have a good provider.

Still, I refuse to accept your assertion that every single one of the 25
million dish customers was "sacred away" by the cable companies. Sure, a
lot of them were, but others might not be able to get cable (like my
parents, who have dish service) or might be new subscribers who chose dish
because they had better advertising and marketing or because they knew
someone else who had it. Do you have any links to statistics of how many
cable subscribers there were from year to year since the Dish companies
started?

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