Voom HD Added In Canada
From the Mediacaster Magazine:
"Toronto-based High Fidelity HDTV will launch of its suite of HD channels, Oasis HD, Treasure HD, Equator HD and Rush HD on Mountain Cablevision.
Offered as the HD Lifestyles pack and available in free preview until April 30th, Mountain Cablevision HD subscribers can now receive channels that offer the high definition nature, culture, and adventure programming from around the world.
"We're very excited to be launching on Mountain and expanding our channels into southwestern Ontario," High Fidelity HDTV co-founder Ken Murphy said in a release. "Our suite of channels will provide Mountain subscribers with some of the world's best HD programming, and let them more fully enjoy the value of their home theatres."
Did Cablevision make a mistake in pulling Voom from U.S. TV providers?
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Yes, I believe Cablevision blew it in the US (at least for this viewer). VOOM did have channels that were eventually replaced by HD versions of existing programs like news, sports and travel. But Gallery HD was like no other channel with it's original arts programming available nowhere else. Not even PBS provided the depth of coverage on the visual arts, architecture and design that Gallery HD did. They wasted all their billions of investment on the satellite transmission in it's first incarnation. why not continue to distribute it on cable, albeit solely on their own system?
OasisHD, RushHD, TreasureHD, and EquatorHD are all Canadian owned and operated. The latter three share branding rights and some programming with the original VoomHD channels but they are otherwise seperate entities.
OasisHD and TreasureHD launched on ExpressVu in March '06 and the other two followed in August '06.
All four of them are available on numerous cable systems throughout Canada including Rogers as of December '08. They are in a free preview on Rogers until April.
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