DirecTV's new high-tech satelite is now in orbit. They haven't (so far as I know) announced an exact date for when they're going to start using it. Odds are, you'll get a much better deal as a new customer rather than an existing customer. On the other hand, they're running that Voom promotion.

If it was me, I'd just suck it up and wait until June and see what they do. You could well be an early adopter of their next-generation MPEG-4 boxes (and, presumably, some new kind of dish that can receive the original three satellites as well as the new one).