[IP] HDTV Magazine - Special Program Provider Announcement
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From: Dale Cripps <hdtvmagazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 23, 2004 4:59:54 AM EST
To: hdtvmagazine_subscribers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: HDTV Magazine - Special Program Provider Announcement
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HDTVMagazine
November 23, 2004
Last week I ask for your opinion on the VOOM services. Did you have it?
If so, how satisfying is it? If not, why not? Would their failure trip
up the HDTV movement? etc. For the most part your answers were listing
to the negative with poor lookup, shaky service, limited sales
knowledge from disinterested outlets, lack of suitable PVR, no channels
for the wife, and old movie programming endlessly repeated topping the
list of complaints. This announcement (below) just came in (thanks to
SkyReport) and now I ask you:
1. Does this announcement convince you that HDTV is the BIG thing for
the 21st century?
2. Will this announcement cause you to order VOOM now? Later? Never?
3. Does this announcement remove all doubts concerning VOOMs survival?
Let me hear from you and I will see to it that your comments reach
VOOM's top management.
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VOOM Plans Big Expansion
Cablevision subsidiary Rainbow Media Enterprises said Monday its VOOM
satellite TV service will dramatically expand its services next March,
growing from its current 39 high-def channels to more than 70 HDTV
channels covering the continental United States.
The increase in VOOM's HD channels slate from 39 to more than 70 "will
allow us to continue to provide more high-definition video services
than any other cable or satellite provider," said Tom Dolan, CEO of
Rainbow Media Enterprises. In addition to expanding the HD slate, Dolan
said VOOM also plans to simultaneously add nearly 200
standard-definition channels.
To facilitate the expansion, the VOOM service will utilize 16
transponders on the SES Americom AMC-6 satellite, which VOOM refers to
as "Rainbow 2." Programming transmitted by both the Rainbow 1 satellite
already in orbit and Rainbow 2 will utilize a new encoding system from
Harmonic, initially configured to run in MPEG-2 and software
upgradeable to MPEG-4.
In addition to the AMC-6 announcement, Rainbow Media said it filed
with the Federal Communications Commission a recently completed
contract with satellite manufacturer Lockheed Martin for construction
of five Ka-Band satellites for VOOM. The satellites, the first of which
is set for completion and launch in about 34 months, will enable VOOM
to increase its channel capacity to more than 5,000 high-definition
channels when operating in spot beam mode, the company said.
Rainbow said the Ka-Band capacity will enable VOOM to have spot beams
covering the entire United States including Alaska and Hawaii. And the
satellites will be operated at the company's orbital locations at 62
degrees, 71 degrees, 77 degrees, 119 degrees and 129 degrees.
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