Cox customers can now watch streaming video of national TV shows on their iPad free of charge.
Cox Communications announced Monday that its Cox TV Connect app is allowing many customers to use their iPad as an additional screen to watch live, streaming video in their home. The app includes access to national cable television channels that offer a variety of news and entertainment programming.
TV Connect includes an on-screen guide, and customers can select a full-screen viewing option once a program has been selected. The first version of the TV Connect app is now available at no charge in the Apple App Store. At initial launch, Cox customers with Preferred, Premier or Ultimate Cox High Speed Internet service, Cox TV Essential service or higher and a DOCSIS modem can download and use the free application on their iPad.
In Louisiana, digital channels currently available on the app (the number will grow) include:
A&E
ABC Family
AMC
Animal Planet
Bravo
Cartoon Network
CNBC
CNN
C-SPAN
C-SPAN 2
C-SPAN 3
Discovery Disney Channel
E!
Food Network
Fox News
FX
Golf Channel
HGTV
History Channel
HLN
HSN
Lifetime
msnbc National Geographic
OWN
QVC
Speed
SyFy
Turner Classic Movies (New Orleans only)
TLC
TNT
Travel Channel
truTV
USA
For those without a digital cable box, channels include:
A&E
ABC Family
AMC
Animal Planet
Bravo
Cartoon Network
CNBC
CNN
C-SPAN
Discovery Disney Channel
E!
Food Network
Fox News
FX
HGTV
History Channel
HLN
HSN
Lifetime
msnbc QVC
Speed (Only available in Lafayette)
SyFy
Turner Classic Movies (New Orleans only)
TLC
TNT
Travel Channel
truTV
USA
Last May Cox introduced TV Online at www.cox.com/tv, which gives Cox Advanced TV customers access to thousands of television and movies titles on demand - many available for online viewing the day after they air. Earlier this year, Cox also introduced Mobile Connect, an iPad, iPhone and Android app that gives Cox Advanced TV and Cox Telephone customers the ability to control and manage their Cox DVR and Telephone services.