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I agree, MonstersHD is a great channel - true HD in OAR, no commercials, and a nice library of films seldom seen since the old Chiller Theater shown on Saturdays back in the ‘60s (even then I was addicted to the ‘giant creepy-crawlies attack the world’ genre). The “new” Chiller channel that Dish now offers is not in HD, has commercial interruptions, and the films are butchered with cuts for content and length and not in OAR - as a “replacement” for MonstersHD it’s an insult.

I’m missing some of the other Voom channels as well - Rave is great, and I’ll confess to some hours spent watching Ultra, too - hot models slinking down the runway in skimpy outfits? Oh, yeah!

But the point is that Voom offered great content never (or rarely) available on any other channel...and in HD to boot. Dish made a huge mistake trying to game the system to get a better deal - with Direct offering even more HD programming (like Speed, which I’d love to have in HD), and Dish no longer differentiating itself with Voom’s unique programming, there simply is no reason to choose Dish over Direct.

I enjoyed the Gallery channel on VOOM. they had great HD shows of gallery tours, or profiles of artists, and showed lots of HD operas. I also liked Equator, which had travel shows in HD, like Rudy Maxa's Smart Travels (though Rudy Maxa is also on HDNET). Unfortunately, Equator spent too muuch time on Third World countries and global warming.

I also like the Monsters channel. They not only had classic monster flicks, but also kitschy, campy ones that were fun as well. I think I would have liked the VOOM Movies channel it it had been offered for more than the week or so I had it.

I may seriously look at jumping ship and going over to Direct TV after this stunt pulled by DiSH. Hardly any of the "new" HD channels are worthwhile. Man, I sure wish TCM would go HD!