Well I made the switch to Cox back on the 21 of Jan, so I thought I would give my initial thoughts on the new setup, for those that my be thinking about making the switch. With DTV I had Cox for the internet and the HR-34 Genie, an HR-24 and 2 H-25 receivers, for a total of 4 receivers and 7 DVR channels. With COX I continue with the internet service and have their 6 channel DVR and 4 non dvr receivers, that all communicate with each other just like in the Genie system, so I have 1 more receiver but 1 less dvr channel with this setup. The system has worked perfectly without any glitches since day one. The remote takes some getting use to and to me, the guide system and GUI is far behind both Dish and DTV. The user interface is not very intuitive and the channel lineup doesn't have any real coherence in the channel grouping, grouping like channels together. Like ESPN is on channel 1010 and ESPN2 is on channel 1060.
That is really the only nit pick I have so far with the setup. The remote speed and speed of the system is light years ahead of my DTV setup. No more waiting forever to scroll through the guide, or select something and wait for it to recognize the input. I actually think the video quality in HD is a little better than DTV but the standard quality is far better than DTV. I can actually watch SD now and it's not that bad, AHC is not in HD on COX. With an $80 a month savings over my previous setup, I am very happy I made the switch.