Movies on demand launched on Vegas cable system

Monday, July 28, 2003 | 11:22 a.m.

Cox Communications is rolling out "Entertainment on Demand" (EOD) technology in Las Vegas enabling customers to electronically "rent" movies and watch them anytime -- and then watch them again and again over a 24-hour period.

"It provides all the functionality of a VCR tape," said Cox spokesman Tony Timmons, explaining customers can rewind and fast-forward the movies at-will.

In Business Las Vegas, a sister newspaper to the Las Vegas Sun, reported EOD is a digital cable service currently available to about a third of Cox's Las Vegas customers, all of whom live in the east side of the valley.

The system -- based on Video on Demand technology rolling out in cable systems around the country -- is expected to be available to all of Cox's Las Vegas customers by the end of the year. Newer moves on the system typically rent for $3.95, older films are less expensive.

The Greenspun family, owner of the Las Vegas Sun, is a minority investor in Cox's Las Vegas cable system.

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