HDTV's Chief Competion is 480p

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It seems impossible to me that something as promising as VOOM would register so much difficulty with their High-definition centric launch. There are 12 million HDTV sets already sold and less than one third have any HDTV signal providing connections. The VOOM proposition is profitable to its operators with only 250,000 subscribers. Considering that they do offer the greater promise for HDTV, if you discount Rupert Murdoch's claim to have 150 "cable" like channels in HDTV delivered from DirecTV by year's end. But anyone with half a mind will tell you that there is not enough HDTV formatted programming in the can yet to accom0date so many channels. So, if you can receive VOOM, and you have your HDTV set's collecting standard TV signals, why not venture out there with VOOM? They can reach the threshold of profitability rather rapidly and then you have at least one more dedicated source for new HDTV programming when it becomes available. If DirecTV and DISH find that the digital sets being installed are only able to resolve 480 they will back off HDTV as fast as you can say "dumped."


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