I've been thinking about switching myself. As for the DVR problems, Motorola is the company who makes it. They use the same equipment and models, major cable companies use as well. ( I know because I had it ) What gets my attention, is the multi-room connected DVR programming. My current bill with Dish is $225 a month and begining to annoy me. Dish still hasn't made good on advertised "promises" and waiting three years for them to add my local channel market to the line up. Tired of paying four times the amount I was with Mediacom Cable and viewing news from Philly when I live in Southern Delaware. If it wasn't for newspapers, I would be completely lost with whats going on around me. The one very big thing keeping me with Dish, is the HD content. If only, Fios would have the amount Dish has, it would be more popular to me.
Verizon's moto boxes are slightly different than most cable companies in at least one major way: verizon's boxes have MoCA, and video on demand is actually IPTV, and uses internet bandwidth instead of QAM bandwidth.
Originally, the boxes had microsoft software, the new software was done in house (which is probably why the roll out did not go well at all).
I really liked how simple the whole set up was. one price gets you 210+ channels in SD, all digital, and renting an HD reciever gets you all the HD programming you're paying for, now 95 channels apparently. and none of it is down graded, it's all full bandwidth. the small hard drive on the DVR was the biggest shortcoming of the whole system, near as I could tell.
it's funny, U-verse struggles to provide two HD streams at a time to a house, with FiOS we could watch two IPTV streams in HD (~36 mbps) and have no affect on our 15 mbps internet connection.