Scott Greczkowski said:
Let me clarify, from what I was told yesterda it appears the only thing the VOOM Boxes would pick up would be the VOOM HD channels and not any other Dish Network programming.
So in that aspect BFG is correct.
As far as I remember technically the Motorola can be used but it'd require a full software update from Dish which I highly doubt they will do for the sake of only $46k subs. There's another factor, the future MPEG4 uprgade, when our Motorolas can save them time and energy - no need for box replacement, only sw update. But again, I'm not sure they'll invest into this.
If new box necessary, I think I'll pick up some cheap box and buy HD+Mega Movie pack for ~$50 and keep my cable down around $50 too.

And I'll be the happiest guy on the block: saved some money and got back his toys, Vooms and even gained some new HDs (HDNet, InHD), though lost few (UHD, StarzHD etc) which I hope eventually either Dish or TWCNYC will pick up anyway..