The only option in my area - Cox Communications
Written: Nov 29 '00
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Pros: good service, pretty good variety of channels
Cons: nothing more to subscribe too
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| simonton4's Full Review: Cox |
My wife and I live in a small town, and the only cable provider in town is Cox Communications. In the year and a half we have lived here, they have given us pretty fair service, and we have not had any problems with our cable being out. Maybe twice we have had problems with a few of the channels, but they were fixed quickly.
Our cable bill is $57 a month, which seems rather high to me seeing how we only get 41 channels and the TV Guide viewing channel that has listings of what is on (plus 2 cable boxes). We subscribe to the only four movie channels offered: Cinemax, Showtime, HBO, and The Movie Channel, the latter not one we actually subscribed to but one day is started coming in and has not stopped. There was no change in our bill after that happened, so we have not bothered to tell anyone. Either we were supposed to get the channel the entire time or we are getting it free. Who knows. But there are no other channels we can possibly subscribe to locally, so we have no where to go, nothing new to choose from.
We also get a fair variety of sports channels (these are the ones I flip through first to see if anything is on, my wife flips through the movie channels first). We have ESPN and ESPN2 and Fox Sports Southwest. This of course is a drastic decrease in the amount of sports channels I had when we lived in Ft. Worth. I think we had 6 different ESPN's alone! It was great.
MTV, VH1, TLC, the Discovery Channel, the Disney Channel, Lifetime, CMT, QVC, and USA are a few other channels we receive, along with MSNBC and CNN. There are a few other odd channels scattered throughout, but that covers the main bulk. Thrown in are a couple of local channels that only show ads and the school calendar of events, so they don't count for much. I do wish we could get Animal Planet. My wife and I both loved that channel and watched it all the time back in Ft. Worth.
I'm not very impressed with our TV Guide channel. It scrolls through the listings showing you only an hour and a half worth of time. For example, if it is 5:15 and you want to know what is on, the guide scrolls through 5:00, 5:30, and 6:00. Want to know what is coming on at 6:30? You have to wait until it is 5:25, and then the time sot will advance to the next half hour. This is fairly annoying, not to mention that the channels scrolls on its own, so if it is only on channel 2 and you are waiting to see what is on channel 35, you are going to have to wait until it gets there on its own. But I suppose it is better than nothing.
Cox Communications also offers digital cable with a lot of awesome features and tons of channels, but unfortunately this is not available in our area yet. My in-laws have it and it is definitely something we would subscribe to if we could. Overall I would say we've been pleased with Cox, but if there were any other choice of cable providers I can't say that we would or would not stick with them.
Recommended:
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Member: Tommy Simonton
Location: Andrews, Texas, USA
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