Cox is aware that those who have already purchased HD boxes are going to be po’d when they discover the boxes can be rented after all. I’ve been told not to worry, that they would work something out. The rental rate has to be approved by the city and that won’t be for another month.
I’m also told by the most reliable source at Cox that they are looking very closely at both ESPN and Discovery. I’ve been advised that they can’t carry everything they might want because of bandwidth limitations. I responded by advising that they solve the latter problem by pulling the plug on a hell of a lot of that swill they are already carrying. God knows how many channels I subscribe to, but I am certain that I never watch more that 10 to 20 of them.
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That’s ok, they can buy it back from me for $499 just like I paid for it…They need more content…JT
I know for a fact that Cox are going to rent the boxes I recieve word from a Cox installer that you will be able to rent the boxes but had no time frame.
I’ll start by donating all those music channels in the 900s. I’ll trade Cox all 40+ music channels for 6 new HD channels. How good of a deal is that. I’ll even throw in Encore Love Stories and Encore Love Stories West for free.
The General Manager expects it may take another month before City approval is obtained for the rate.
Yes. Please take all my music channels too
They can take my music channels also along with the spanish channels(at least from me)and the nickalodian channels and some of the program guides on certain channels they don’t need five program channels for pay per view, and the home shopping networks. If you total all of that that should be close to a hundred channels I don’t watch.
We can only hope that once these boxes (that I’ve paid $500.00 for) will indeed populate the viewing public thru Cox Communications with an end result being the fact that more viewers will INSIST on bandwidth being made available for additional programming. I applaud Cox in trying to get those boxes “rented” regardless of my already paying substancially for mine. My thought being that, in the final chapter of HDTV program availability, it will bring more of what we’ve been craving…ESPNHD!
I still don’t undestand how they can have the bandwith in Las Vegas to offer discovery hd and espn-hd and not have it in oklahoma.
First, hopefully Cox will give some sort of monthly credit to those who bought the box. More importantly, if Cox upgrades to a newer model box, hopefully they will have a trade-in program.
As to the bandwidth issue, why can’t they just create an HDTV tier with up to say 8 or 10 channels. They already have HBO/Max (23 channels), Showtime/TMC (14 channels), Starz (7 channels), Encore Movie Tier(15 channels), Discovery (6 channels), Sports & Info (12 channels), Variety Tier (14 channels), TeleLatina (8 channels) and Music Choice (45 channels). Because of the HD bandwidth issue, maybe they could say that anyone who orders the HDTV package can only order up to 7 of the other 9 packages, or may only order digital packages totaling no more than X number of channels, or something like that.
I would love if they had an HD tier I would give up all the other HBO’s and Max’s which I never watch anyway and the encore. To bad they wont listen to our ideas.