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Voom subscribers who switch over to DirecTV will receive a $200 rebate and three months free of DirecTV HD, according to SkyReport.com. Voom subscribers, who will be stuck without the service’s 39 HD channels when they officially go off air April 30th, can choose from either an HD system or an HD digital video recorder (DVR) system.

It has been an up-and-down few months for Voom, as owner Cablevision voted to shut down the money losing service after chairman Charles Dolan was unable to come up with enough private funding to keep it alive. Since it launched in 2003, Voom has lost an estimated $661 million.

EchoStar Communications, provider of satellite rival Dish Network, recently purchased Voom’s satellite for $200 million.

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