It's been a hectic past handful of weeks, and I haven't been on this site much otherwise I would have posted this sooner. The WorldBox is most definitely not vaporware. I've had one for about 3 weeks now. I traded in my two tuner Cisco 8742 for it. I wanted to get a feel for the box, so even though my Cisco 9865 has six tuners and the WorldBox only has four, I moved the World Box to the main TV so I'd use it more. Since I'm former TWC, as expected, it is running ODN Navigator 8.0.0_23, not the software seen in the links above, and what legacy Charter subscribers see.
Overall it's a nice box and runs Navigator exceptionally well. On reboot, it still does lose my Dolby Digital audio settings, like the Cisco 9865 does, which is a little annoying. Also while the video does look a little brighter to me, there is a hint of black crush. Not as bad as the Arris Enhanced DVR I had, but it's noticeable. The update to ODN 8 on the Cisco 9565 slowed down my box quite a bit when in the DVR management screens, the World Box is lightning fast, I experience no slow downs when re-prioritizing or deleting series. And I've been doing a lot of that lately. I record 60+ series, I wish there was a way to have them tied to the account, instead of the box.
I have the Spectrum 201-T, which is manufactured by Technicolor, the company Cisco sold their STB business to. Humax is the other OEM for the World Box 1.1. So far being down to 4 tuners hasn't been an issue. I'm thinking it may be once hockey season starts back up. I do also miss the clock on the front display. Not sure why the got rid of it.