The first time you lucked out because Charlie had a chance to buy the Rainbow satellite for cheap, and there were not a lot of HDs on the market.
Things has changed a lot since then, and VOOM's own lack of effort to put new content up had sealed its final DBS demise, DISH has planned to terminate VOOM for some time now, with the latest court refusal to issue an injunction VOOM's death is certain.
Look DISH has been bleeding for the last three quarters, most significantly the very last quarter. If the trend continues Charlie will lose his shirt. VOOM did nothing to help DISH in the past few months. What DISH needs is 100 mainstream HDs (having HD content or not) at $30/mo. to get back in the game, and the only way to do so will be to get rid of all VOOM to spare some room, because they will not have any new satellite up in time to do this otherwise.
So stop it already. One Sci FiHD base is bigger than all the VOOMers combined. Do you really think DISH has a choice?