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New Contributor III
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ROVI out??
I am reading almost 1 year old forums about ROVI being phased out and all ROVI TV receivers being 'Retired'. Why do I only get this OLD NEWS from this COX forum?? 2 weeks ago I first read about ROVI....but some of these forums are 1 year old.....where is or was Cox's notice. TV Receivers outdated I first see in my APRIL 2019 invoice. NOTHING FROM COX IN ANY INVOICE about ROVI EQUIPMENT. I have been requesting a LIST of ALL outdated equipment....NO LIST...but now they say it's ROVI....and today another example of HARASSMENT....ESPN & ESPN2 removed.....goes along with TCM, 8 movie pak channels, MTV, MLB, NO HD since May 8th......just MARVELOUS treatment to someone NEVER LATE in over 10 years...................
Bruce
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Honored Contributor III
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All "outdated" receivers have Rovi. I don't think a lot of users knew what Rovi was unless they watched their cable-box reboot. Maybe they did...I can't remember...Rovi may have been emblazoned in the Guide somewhere.
Anyway, it's not that Rovi is outdated. It's that your cable-box is outdated because it can't decode the low-bandwidth compression of MPEG4 programs...that's why you're missing channels...and I’m sure Cox no longer wants to keep paying the licensing fees to keep using Rovi.
I just swapped boxes and Contour is okay. I waited a long time to "upgrade" because Rovi was initially only available with DVR service. And it hate replacing something that worked.
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