[opendtv] HDTV gets a new player
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 10:18:13 -0400
HDTV gets a new player
Cablevision says the outlook for its Voom service is crystal clear.
But in the rapidly evolving satellite TV market, the reception has
been considerably more fuzzy.
By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff | August 22, 2004
As the owner of a 64-inch high-definition television set, Stephen
Ferreira of Billerica got excited when a new satellite network called
Voom started up last year, offering nearly three dozen channels of
high-definition shows and movies.
All Voom needs now is about 2 million more people like Ferreira --
and fast. Nine months after Cablevision Systems Corp. , the Long
Island cable TV company, launched Voom at a cost of over $600
million, the service has attracted only 25,000 subscribers nationwide.
With Voom accounting for less than 1 percent of Cablevision's
revenues but nearly half its most recent quarterly loss, and
threatening to gobble up another $500 million this year, many Wall
Street analysts have been bluntly urging Cablevision to pull the plug
on the would-be third satellite TV provider.
Not that Ferreira and other fans of crystal-clear, super-sized
television aren't enjoying the show. "I love being able to enjoy a
breadth of high-definition content," said Ferreira, a 54-year-old
regional sales executive for consumer electronics maker Pioneer North
America Inc., who raves about watching HD-format Lyle Lovett and
Sheryl Crow concerts and movies in wide-screen format.
Ferreira already had a DirecTV satellite dish. But once Voom cut its
installation prices this spring by more than 70 percent to $200, he
was happy to pay another $50 a month for a Voom dish to get access to
much more HD content.
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http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/08/22/hdtv_gets_a_new_player/
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