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VOOM Free HD Offer
VOOM, the new HD satellite service came out with a terrific offer
yesterday. They are offering free programming until 2/29/04 and a money back guarantee until 3/31/04 for all equipment purchased. Essentially, they are giving you free programming and equipment for the next four months without any obligation. If you don't like the service they will take back the equipment until 3/31/04 and refund your money. They also are not charging you for programming. They currently have 25 HD channels and are promising 39 HD channels by 2/1/04. For details call 1-800-GET-VOOM or go to www.voom.com. (The website has not been updated yet for this new offer,so I would call for details) |
VOOM, the new HD satellite service came out with a terrific offer
yesterday. They are offering free programming until 2/29/04 and a money back guarantee until 3/31/04 for all equipment purchased. What a great deal for anyone interested in HD Scott! |
"Scott G." wrote in message ... VOOM, the new HD satellite service came out with a terrific offer yesterday. Hey, look it is advertising bot. The lineup looks like HD just for the sake of HD. Not very compelling programming and lacking especially in the SD lineup. Kyle |
The lineup looks like HD just for the sake of HD. Not very compelling
programming and lacking especially in the SD lineup. "Compelling" is in the eyes of the beholder isn't it? Keep in mind too that VOOM advertises itself as an HD service with "some" SD whereas Dish and DirecTV are SD services with "some" HD. Different approach, different emphasis. |
But (IMO) HD just for the sake of HD is not much value. They just as well
carry HSN and QVC in HD. How many noticed they also do not offer HBO? That alone would be a deal-breaker for me. Ah, but HBO is just about a done deal and will arive shortly as is Cinemax E&W, INHD1 & 2, Starz HD E&W, TMC HD, ESPN HD, NFL HD, NBA HD in addition to the existing TWELVE exclusive HD movie channels and the special interest HD channels. The 12 exclusive HD movie channels are already offereing some really neat HD movies not seen on HBO, Showtime etc. YOWSER!! More HD then anybody else by far, and excellent quality channels to boot. A win win for anybody really interested in HD! |
whats the free offer?
End higher ticket prices! Go to local college games! |
problem is that voom is still going to charge an arm and a leg for everything
after the offer |
whats the free offer?
VOOM is offering a money back guarantee for systems purchased before 1/1/04. Those systems can be returned for a full refund by 3/31/04 if you are not satisfied. Pretty amazing deal in the world of electronics. Also, all programming is free until the end of February. |
problem is that voom is still going to charge an arm and a leg for everything
after the offer I think their price after the free offer is up is very reasonable. For $39.90 you get 21 exclusive HD channels including 12 unique movie channels showing all HD movies. There's also a news/weather channel in HD, special interest HD channels and for the price quoted above, you get one free "pack". A "pack" is a combinations of other HD channels. As an example, the "HD Marquee" pack includes Discovery HD, Starz E&W HD, INHD1 & 2 and 6 other SD Starz channels. So all of that woud be $39.90. IMO a damn great deal. There are 4 other packs including an HBO HD pack, Showtime HD pack, HD Sports pack and a Cinemax HD pack. Each additional pack beyond the first free one you choose is $14.90. |
Do you work for Voom? If not they should be paying you!
How come you don't mention the $795.00 you have to shell out for the box up front? I have HD through Cox cable, 9 channels, no upfront, no extra charge per month above what I was already paying. They will add more as it becomes available. "Vidguy7" wrote in message ... problem is that voom is still going to charge an arm and a leg for everything after the offer I think their price after the free offer is up is very reasonable. For $39.90 you get 21 exclusive HD channels including 12 unique movie channels showing all HD movies. There's also a news/weather channel in HD, special interest HD channels and for the price quoted above, you get one free "pack". A "pack" is a combinations of other HD channels. As an example, the "HD Marquee" pack includes Discovery HD, Starz E&W HD, INHD1 & 2 and 6 other SD Starz channels. So all of that woud be $39.90. IMO a damn great deal. There are 4 other packs including an HBO HD pack, Showtime HD pack, HD Sports pack and a Cinemax HD pack. Each additional pack beyond the first free one you choose is $14.90. |
also cablevision's problem is that they are always fighting with someone or
doing something stupid. Note at last check espn hd still not on cablevision End higher ticket prices! Go to local college games! |
Do you work for Voom? If not they should be paying you!
I was just waiting for someone to come up with that one. Unreal. Believe what you want, I don't work for VOOM. I sent you a PM with all my responses. There is no satellite provider that will give you a free HD setup. If you find one let me know. It is WAY MORE than generous to offer a money back guarantee on all equipment & installation until the end of March. In fact, it's unheard of. Additionally there's no programming charge until the beginning of March. I'd love to find deals like this in other product lines!!! The $750 upfront and REFUNDABLE charge includes an HD STB, an OTA antenna and installation for all of the above. That price happens to be very competitive with any of the satellite providers. They are already providing far more HD than your cable company, but you knew that. If you love your cable company than stick with them, but why are you coming on here and deriding what others are enjoying? I don't get guys like you, I really don't. VOOM currently has 21 HD exclusive channels including 12 HD movie channels offering HD movies you won't find on HBO or the like. They also offer special interest channels, a sports channel, Showtime HD E&W, an HD weather/news channel and Discovery HD. They will shortly be providing Starz HD, Cinemax HD, NFL HD, NBA HD, INHD 1 & 2 and other HD channels. As I said, you love your cable, stick with your cable. On the other hand I've got an open mind and will give them a shot during this trial period. If the programming is good I'll keep them, if not then I won't. But I certainly won't approach it like you, that's for damn sure. |
for some strange reason they dont have msg high def or fox sports high def
cahnnel End higher ticket prices! Go to local college games! |
"If you love your cable company than
stick with them, but why are you coming on here and deriding what others are enjoying? I don't get guys like you, I really don't." Maybe it's because he already has had experience with Cablevision and knows how incompetent they are or looked at their success record in other business ventures. I've lost my premium channels for several days twice now in the last 3 months. Both times I called Cablevision and went thru their endless menus, finally getting a real person. "Turn on the box, turn off the box, give me the serial number, stand on your head and wait 5 mins, should be fine in 10 mins bye...." Of course it still doesn't work. Call back again, go thru menus, being on hold, finally they insist they need to send a tech out, it must be a signal problem, even though I tell them all the channels are crystal clear. Clearly, it's something not set right on their end. Then, while waiting for a tech to show up in a couple days, it suddenly starts working again, all on it's own. I think this Voom idea isn't based on a sound business plan. The vast majority of people interested in HD either already have sat from Direct or Dish or have cable. Dish and Direct already have about 8 HD channels and are adding more all the time. They also have the traditional channels like CNBC, FOX, cartoons, etc, which Voom doesn't have. Do they expect people to have two sat services? On cable, the other competitor, eqpt is free, and the HD offerings are constantly increasing. (Hello Cablevision, what about your cable customers like me? Do they expect me to go pay $750 and put up a dish to get HD instead of just putting more on my existing cable?) The fact that this offering increases competition is a good thing, but I doubt it's economic viability. (Vidguy7) wrote in message ... Do you work for Voom? If not they should be paying you! I was just waiting for someone to come up with that one. Unreal. Believe what you want, I don't work for VOOM. I sent you a PM with all my responses. There is no satellite provider that will give you a free HD setup. If you find one let me know. It is WAY MORE than generous to offer a money back guarantee on all equipment & installation until the end of March. In fact, it's unheard of. Additionally there's no programming charge until the beginning of March. I'd love to find deals like this in other product lines!!! The $750 upfront and REFUNDABLE charge includes an HD STB, an OTA antenna and installation for all of the above. That price happens to be very competitive with any of the satellite providers. They are already providing far more HD than your cable company, but you knew that. If you love your cable company than stick with them, but why are you coming on here and deriding what others are enjoying? I don't get guys like you, I really don't. VOOM currently has 21 HD exclusive channels including 12 HD movie channels offering HD movies you won't find on HBO or the like. They also offer special interest channels, a sports channel, Showtime HD E&W, an HD weather/news channel and Discovery HD. They will shortly be providing Starz HD, Cinemax HD, NFL HD, NBA HD, INHD 1 & 2 and other HD channels. As I said, you love your cable, stick with your cable. On the other hand I've got an open mind and will give them a shot during this trial period. If the programming is good I'll keep them, if not then I won't. But I certainly won't approach it like you, that's for damn sure. |
Maybe it's because he already has had experience with Cablevision and
knows how incompetent they are or looked at their success record in other business ventures. I take each enterprise as a seperate entity. I take it on its merit and what it brings to the table for me. It's already bringing to the table far more HD channels than both of the big boys combined and, this before the addition of other channels. You have a right to pre-judge if you like, but I choose to examine the service BEFORE judging. think this Voom idea isn't based on a sound business plan. The vast majority of people interested in HD either already have sat from Direct or Dish or have cable. Dish and Direct already have about 8 HD channels and are adding more all the time. Whether it's a sound business plan or not is subject to debate and time will be the judge. As to the big boys and their "8" channels, let's see: DirecTV has HBO HD, Showtime HD, Discovery HD, HDNet, HDNet movies, ESPN and a PPV if you want to include that...by my count that's 6 HDs plus the PPV. As to the fact that they're "adding more all the time", I WISH. The fact is they are NOT adding more "all the time". It's a torture getting them to add ONE. Showtime HD was on the air for over 1/2 year before they added it. DirecTV showed adds for Discovery HD for almost TWO YEARS before they added it. So I would unquestionably argue with your characterization. If what you said was a fact, I would never have tried VOOM. Do they expect people to have two sat services? I don't know what they expect, but I do know for me VOOM is an adjunct to DirecTV and not a replacement....at least at the moment. Since VOOM is essentially an HD service with some SD and DirecTV is a SD service with some HD, I see them meeting 2 distinct needs. I can't imagine someone who's really in to HD not seriously considering them during this generous offer. Of course I do know some people that buy HDTVs and rarely watch HD. Why they bought an HDTV is beyond me and these are certainly not candidates for VOOM. On cable, the other competitor, eqpt is free That's cable and we're talking satellite here. No satellite provider gives out free HD equipment. the HD offerings are constantly increasing. (Hello Cablevision, what about your cable customers like me? And I think this gets to the crux of the matter for those that appear to want VOOM to fail or seem very angry at the VOOM concept. It seems to me that almost all of these people are those that hate Cablevision almost more than anything in their life. Do they expect me to go pay $750 and put up a dish to get HD instead of just putting more on my existing cable?) Part of your problem is that you don't realize that VOOM is a NATIONAL service, not just a tri-state service. I suspect that many VOOM customers have never even heard of Cablevision. I am a Cablevision subscriber and subscribe to only the minimum "Family Cable" and don't have any need for their premium services. I'd much rather put that money into HD services. The fact that this offering increases competition is a good thing, but I doubt it's economic viability. You could be right, but time will tell. |
Vidguy7 ) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
I don't know what they expect, but I do know for me VOOM is an adjunct to DirecTV and not a replacement....at least at the moment. Since VOOM is essentially an HD service with some SD and DirecTV is a SD service with some HD, I see them meeting 2 distinct needs. Forgetting the $750 install price since that really isn't much more than about $200 more than an HD DirecTV/Dish install, the programming price isn't too bad. If you drop your premiums from DirecTV/Dish, you could save $30 or more a month, and get the same things in HD from VOOM with almost no change in total monthly cost. I know Dish has some really basic packages that you might be able to end up saving even more. The two reasons I'm not doing anything with VOOM is no recording yet and the fact that I will probably be moving before the end of the "free" period. I really don't want to deal with another install in a few months. That's cable and we're talking satellite here. No satellite provider gives out free HD equipment. And, we all know that cable companies don't provide the hardware for free either. Not only do you pay rental for the box forever, but since that takes so long on HD boxes to recoup the investment, cable companies just solve that problem by raising all their prices. -- Jeff Rife | "One minute we were spanking each other with For address harvesters: | meat, and the next minute it got weird." | | -- Joe Hackett, "Wings" | |
If you drop your premiums from DirecTV/Dish, you could save
$30 or more a month, and get the same things in HD from VOOM with almost no change in total monthly cost. Precisely. The two reasons I'm not doing anything with VOOM is no recording yet and the fact that I will probably be moving before the end of the "free" period. I really don't want to deal with another install in a few months. Makes sense, I can understand that. VOOM indicated they will be coming out with an HD PVR in the future. Mabye by the time you move they'll have it out. And, we all know that cable companies don't provide the hardware for free either. Not only do you pay rental for the box forever, but since that takes so long on HD boxes to recoup the investment, cable companies just solve that problem by raising all their prices. Yup! But it seems many people don't see that. |
Vidguy7 ) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
Makes sense, I can understand that. VOOM indicated they will be coming out with an HD PVR in the future. Mabye by the time you move they'll have it out. The timing looks about right, so it might end up being a housewarming present to myself. Since it will be a place where there are no worries about what antennas/dishes I can put up (except for FAA regulations on tower height), that won't be an issue. I just wish we could get FireWire on all the various STBs so that we don't have to be locked into one recorder. -- Jeff Rife | For address harvesters: | http://www.nabs.net/Cartoons/OverTheHedge/Olympics.gif | | | |
I just wish we could get FireWire on all the various STBs so that we don't
have to be locked into one recorder. Did I mention that VOOM said their next box will have firewire? |
Vidguy7 ) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
Did I mention that VOOM said their next box will have firewire? No, I don't believe you did. I haven't seen that before, and that is great news. -- Jeff Rife | "Oooh, I love children... For address harvesters: | they taste like chicken." | | -- Heddy Newman, "Herman's Head" | |
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No, I don't believe you did.
I haven't seen that before, and that is great news. -- Jeff Rife Jeff, of course when I see it I'll believe it. |
I'm not pre-judging anything. I've watched Cablevision for years in
it's various business adventures. In my opinion, they suck at almost everything they've done and launching a satelite isn't going to change poor management. The corporate philosophy seems to be, if you already have a bunch of businesses, many of them either marginally profitable or losing money, instead of straightening them out, just go out and get into yet another business with fierce competition that you don't understand. Remember The Wiz? You say you're not pre-judging anything, but if you objectively read the above, I think you'll see that one can easily draw the conclusion you already have. I'd suggest you objectively find someone that has this installed and actually view the service as if it comes from some provider you never heard of. My guess is that you'll be VERY impressed. PQ is superb, at least as good as the big boys if not better, HD quantity blows the big boys away, they just added NFL HD yesterday and there's far more to come. As I've said before, I can easily understand someone being skeptical about Cablevision, I've lived with them for years. However, my Cablevision high speed internet service is great and thus far I'm very impressed with VOOM. I try to be objective when I evaluate products or services. If it's good I keep it, if it's not I ditch it. In the end I win out by being objective. |
optimum online is pretty good cable still sucks
End higher ticket prices! Go to local college games! |
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