ContributionsMost RecentMost LikesSolutionsRe: Why was “720p On All Channels” locked? 720p60 h264 only in San Diego as well, with the 30 second added transcoding delay throwing all the recordings off. The old mpeg-2 streams were basically mpeg-ts streams forwarded, so you could see whatever bitrate the stream originated from whatever network it was being sourced from, or OTA from locals. Now everything is consistent 6Mbps. This has pushed me to Hulu which is 1080p h265 at 5Mbps across the board on my Apple TV 4K, and I use the CBS, Freacock, TBS etc apps with Cox sign in for whatever is not on Hulu. I also have OTA card now in my PC, so that handles locals and live. As soon as the elderly person I take care of passes, dropping everything but internet service for $85 a month and will be spending a lot less for Hulu $7, Peacock $5, and Paramount+ $5 which gets me everything I watch on Cox for $200 a month in 720p, and the OTA card with 4 tuners is obviously free for live. I don't factor things like Netflix Disney Apple TV + into my cord cutting math because those are streaming only. Re: 4 digit to 2 digit HD channel transition Watching TV just got easier An important update on channels 1000-1950 HiPaul, On Wednesday, December 15, we’re removing duplicate HD channels currently found on channels 1000-1950.This means you’ll watch your favorite shows on the corresponding 1,2, or 3-digit channel. For example 1034 = 34. Not to worry,no programs are going away. We’re only making the change to simplify your viewing experience. Your favorites and parental controls won't be affected either, so you won't have to do anything. Check out ourlatest channel line up here. Using a DVR? Double check to make sure your recordings haven’t been dropped after Wednesday, December 15. If they have, you’ll need to reset them to record your favorite shows. Power On Channel? Don't forget: If your Cox TV auto powers to a 4- digit channel, it'll need to be reset to a 1-3 digit channel. For example 1006 = 6. Questions?Chat with us anytime. Thanks, Cox 4 digit to 2 digit HD channel transition Received a notice that the 1000+ channels are goign away, being replaced by the double and triple digit companion channels. Does this affect CableCard non Cox DVR equipment as well? Paul Re: New h264 channels 720p only?!?! Poor picture quality with Cablecards? Your Contour 1 boxes (I have one) also use Cablecards. Also, people watch blockbuster movies at 1080p on their cell hpnes, and consider that a cinematic experience. The problem is your company is downresing 1080 to 720. 720 is less than 1080, so unless you are telling me I am reading the codec data incorrectly, your charging me the same for lower quality. Cox is 1080 when 4K comes out, then drops to 720 when 8K comes out...um... Has Cox not converted ALL channels to 720p? Re: New h264 channels 720p only?!?! BTW, I work at a local San Diego TV station (network affiliate) carried on Cox cable. Re: how to get hbo max app on my tv I could not log into the HBO websiteS, it booted me after the Cox log in screen. Same for the TV app. The preview is over now, but my working Showtime app has also now booted me, showing the Cox linking worked properly during the preview period for that provider, and Epix as well. Re: New h264 channels 720p only?!?! I use a Windows Media Center PC, equipped with a Cox Cablecard and tuner. The tuner records the raw transport stream. Using VLC, I can play back the recorded files, and display the video codec type, bitrate, audio format type, and even closed captioning. The old 1080 show as mpeg2 A52, around 9Mbps, that would be with Dolby Digital audio. The newer converted channels show as h264 AVC A52B 720p59.94, around 5Mbps, that would be with Dolby Digital Plus, but my AVR only shows that old Dolby Digital legacy is being encampsulated. The quality of the new "downrezzed" channels is made worse by what appears to be an attempt to add sharpenning to compensate for the resolution decrease. Because the pixels are now magnified, and sharpenning is being applied to an already low bitrate and macroblock source, it results in very noisy images, as the little macroblock compression squares, now bigger in 720p, are getting sharpenned as well. The resulting quality is so bad I've taken to downloading all the network apps onto my Android TV and simply using my PC DVR as a form of reminder of episodesI need to watch online. If Cox is going to stick with 720p (ugh), at a minimum, please have the technicians in charge of the encoders reevaluate the detail enhancement being applied...I think your typical Cox consumer at home is at minimum smart enough to turn up the sharpness on their TV if the need to...and most TV's on stock settings are already oversharpenned as it is. My local channels, all still in 720/1080 mpeg2, look much much better than the new h264 channels...even KPBS, which itself converts 1080 network content to local 720p60, looks soo much better. Re: how to get hbo max app on my tv Same Q here, I got Showtime to accept me and watching now, same with Starz, but HBO Max and Go and all of HBO refuses to allow me to watch using my Cox login pop up. I want to see season 3 of Westworld! :( Re: Tuning adapters no longer working - all 3 flashing yellow I have been running tuning adapters and Cablecards for almost a decade on Cox. I have gone through several Tuning Adapters and multiple Cable Cards. The Cablecards are just flash memory, and over time, flash memory degrades and fails. Tuning Adapters also fail oveer time. Have a technician bring out a replacement TA and a couple of Cable Cards. Swap the TA, if that doesn't help, swap the CableCard to. The TA and Cablecard and the PAIRING sent by the Cox person on the other enbd, are really all the variables that a Cox technician can really deal with. If those fail to resolve the problem, could be on your hardware. trust me, service call, make them bring a TA and CC. Paul New h264 channels 720p only?!?! Got the notice last month that Cox San Diego would be upgrading to the year 2003, and changing from mpeg2 to h264 AVC encoding. I was very excited, as the mpeg2 quality at 7Mbps or so I get on most channels is horrible...if you have ever wondered what a waterfall made of Legos looks like, you could just watch a nature documentary on NatGeo. Fast forward to today, I wanted to check to see which channels might have already been converted to h264, and checked my recorded Windows Media Center files of non local cable channels. Yup, seems like all the non local channels have been changed to h264...but that's not all...every singe one has now been reduced from 1080 to 720. Is this some sort of sick joke? We get a codec update to the year 2003, and simultaneously get a resolution downgrade to less than full high definition. Is this a temporary thing, or can someone from another region advise if this is a transitional resolution, and that 1080 will return once they get their s**t together? 😞 Paul