Orange County, CA - Cox - Page 234

Originally Posted by redshift1

Just Noticed Universal Sports is no longer available. They carried track and triathlon. Apparently some contract issues.

http://www.universalsports.com/index.html

According to the above website channel availability search , Cox and other carriers discontinued their service in January. This is confirmed by the Universal Sports Wiki page. What I don't understand is how the communication conglomerates make money when they fail to agree on terms and then withhold the programming from almost everybody.

Originally Posted by ajwees41

it was on your local nbc's subchannel and now it's a regular full cable channel

Originally Posted by Whitearrow

Did you guys see that Cox is dumping its mobile phone service?

Originally Posted by Whitearrow

The "plus pak" only premium channels are extremely annoying -- I feel that if I pay the $10 a month for HBO and Showtime, I should get all the channels in HD that Cox offers. I'm not going to give up my TiVos for it, though.

Originally Posted by Islanti

I recently came back to Cox for cable after being on antenna for a while. I ordered HBO and SHO because of a six month promo. It infuriates me that I'm not getting the additional HD feeds for HBO and SHO!

The Tivo Premiere can handle it. I get a "This channel is not authorized." message on 1206 and the like. Interestingly the non-premium Plus Pak channels, 1323 & 1900, show "Searching for signal on this cable channel..." instead.

Originally Posted by Bryan_CoxPHX

You can get them at no additional charge on a TiVo Premiere with a SDV Tuning Adapter, as long as you subscribe to the Corresponding SD package and HD service.

Originally Posted by Islanti

After reading through the links you kindly provided (THANKS!) I contacted Cox. After 3 calls I finally got someone who put the codes on my account. Unfortunately they only put it on 2 of my 3 TAs. Took a truck roll to fix, although there were signal issues as well. Cox also put the $5 / month charge on the account (after saying they wouldn't). Got the TA sorted but "Advanced TV" @ $5 isn't a bargain.

To be clear Cox's website states: "Free HD programming. HD programming is FREE with your Advanced TV subscription." Since Cox advertises on the pricing page that Advanced TV is free I don't see why I'm being charged.

I'm going to contact Joshuarat from the other forum and see if he can clarify or help.

EDIT - After calling Cox it seems that the charges on my bill were prorated from some other changes so it looks like I'm not actually being charged. Hopefully the bill shows that as well when it arrives.

Originally Posted by grapejelly

I have the same Hauppauge WinTV DCR-2650 w/ Cable Card tuner, just got it about two weeks ago. I received only limited channels upon install, so I had a tech come out and also spent hours troubleshooting on the phone w/ Cox prior to the channel realignment this week. The tech that came to my home said that Cox doesn't support the Hauppauge device (and said that they only support Tivos, which always work upon installation) and he didn't touch my PC nor did he attempt to solve the missing channels problem but he did test line quality/signal and everything in that area passed. The customer service phone tech I spoke with said that the cable card was fully activated to receive all of the programming tiers that I pay for and I actually called Cox back to reconfirm this after I read a post that someone else had this problem and it was improper card programming/authorization, although that was a Charter or Comcast customer/post.

Unfortunately, my tuner only receives the same channels you mentioned and many are left out (like CNN, NFL, NHL, MTV, etc.). I believe that I've followed all of the steps required in order to make everything work. I've downloaded and installed the current drivers available from Hauppage, but I haven't taken the next step of contacting Hauppauge yet to see if they can help. I'll likely do that soon. If you find any resolution, I'd be glad to read it.

Originally Posted by twarren

no longer see Vutopia or VutopiaHD listed in on demand menus. They had some good classic movies.

Originally Posted by spreidel23

Just started having frequent pixelization and sound issues on CBS 1002 recently. Anyone else?

Originally Posted by Ray Lucca

I also have 1 TV connected without a Cable HD Box and scanned in the "Local Ch's" in HD and they look good. Anyone been able to get Ch. 13 and Ch. 56 scanned in by their TV Tuners in widescreen and HD??? Did the above Cable Ch.'s scan in HD??? Thanx!!

Originally Posted by teague


I had it for a while. Cox at first said it was the new SCE wireless meters, but I called SCE and found out that was not the case. When they sent a service tech out, he said this is becoming a common problem. He added a line amp, and all seems to be good now. So you can either get Cox to come out and do that, or buy one yourself and try it.

Originally Posted by Whitearrow

Oh for godssake...

I just got a TiVo lineup change that SyFy, Bravo and USA HD are all changing from the east coast to the west coast feeds.

If this is true, however, then the programs on the SD channels should now match the HD channels, yeah? And they don't. Right now (at 1 pm pacific) 61 and 1061 are showing different episodes of Eureka, 22 and 1022 are showing L&O:CI and NCIS, respectively, and 55 and 1055 are showing different episodes of Real Housewives of New Jersey.

So, I guess I'm off to submit a TiVo lineup change... if you have a TIVo, PLEASE SUBMIT ONE TOO, and in the meanwhile, be aware that your recordings on all three channels are going to be FUBAR'D.

Here's the info for the lineup report -- pick "incorrect channels"

- On channel (Ch. #) 1022 the TiVo Live Guide displays (Ch. Letters) USAHDP, but it's really (Ch. Letters) USAHD.

- On channel (Ch. #) 1055 the TiVo Live Guide displays (Ch. Letters) BRAVOHDP, but it's really (Ch. Letters) BRAVOHD.

- On channel (Ch. #) 1061 the TiVo Live Guide displays (Ch. Letters) SYFYHDP, but it's really (Ch. Letters) SYFYHD.

In notes, mention that the recent lineup change was incorrect.

Originally Posted by moyekj

Of course you do know as soon as Tribune gets around to changing it back for you Cox will officially flip the switch so that we get the pacific feeds instead.