Frankly, one of the reasons I held off upgrading from my Dish 811 HD receiver and HDPak was because I didn't want to pay twice as much just to get a bunch of garbage VOOM channels. I upgraded last week. I'm really glad Dish dumped the VOOM. I've always wanted the channels I watch to be in HD, not to watch channels I don't care about because they are in HD. Dropping VOOM was a step forward for Dish, which erased the bad marketing decision they made when they bought into VOOM just so they could advertise that they had the most HD at the time.