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“They got you coming and going one way or another.” “You’re going to have to get it or you don’t watch TV,” Plantage said. Plantage said he would be complaining if it was more expensive but people don’t have a choice and accepts the service change, he said. Las Vegas resident Art Plantage said he picked up a minibox for a bedroom and already has a larger box for the front room. They’re not giving us what they should for our money.” I’m already at $146 a month for cable, internet and phone,” Patton said. That’s more money and I’m only getting basic service. Patton said she needed the box for her one television and doesn’t understand why.

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Monique Patton said she’s glad the minibox will be free for two years but doesn’t want to pay for it after that. Some Cox customers outside one of its retail stores on Blue Diamond Road had some strong opinions on the box. They will also get an onscreen program guide and parental controls. There will be a 100 percent digital picture, and all local channels will be in high definition, he said. With the addition of the miniboxes, those customers will get 50 channels of commercial-free music. The miniboxes are available at the five Cox retail stores in the valley or by ordering online or by phone, Barbusca said.Ĭox won’t disclose how many customers will be impacted by the requirement or cite the number of complaints about it. That’s less than Cox customers pay for an HD cable set-top box priced at $8.50 per month.

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Digital customers, meanwhile, will get one mini-box for free for one year if they need it for another room in the house. Those who have additional televisions in their homes and want more boxes would have to pay $2.99 a month. Those with the second tier Essential package at $75.99 a month with more than 90 channels will get two miniboxes free for one year.

We are trying to get as much bandwidth out of your cable potential as possible and one way to do that is to go completely digital.”Ĭox customers with the basic Starter package of more than 40 channels at $24.99 a month will get two miniboxes free for two years. “We deployed home automation in the last couple of years and home security. “It will enable us to implement more advanced services down the road,” Barbusca said. It’s part of a nationwide effort by Cox and the rest of the cable industry to fully digitalize its service, said Cox spokesman Juergen Barbusca. Only that spare room television would lose the signal.

It also affects those with more expanded service who have boxes in their home but have no boxes hooked up to a television in a spare room. The move affects those with basic service who don’t have cable boxes in their homes and hook up the cable directly into their television. 6 the broadcast networks are the last channels to be encrypted and viewed only with a box.

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27 include Animal Planet, Food Network, E!, TV Land, Freeform, TBS, HSN, QCC, AMC, FX, and the History Channel. Without the boxes, channels will be cut off Sept.

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Daniel Clark/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow Communications customers who don’t use a cable box with a television will start losing channels by the end of September unless they install a minibox provided by the company.Ĭustomers received the notices in May and June about the new requirement for miniboxes that will be free for one or two years before they’re charged $2.99 a month. Customers have been picking up boxes at Cox stores, but also have the option to have them delivered. One of the mini-boxes now required by Cox sits on display at the Cox Solutions Store near Centennial Center Boulevard and Tropical Parkway in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Aug.

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