Joe Miller, housing division associate director of business administration, said the University and Time Warner have come to a verbal agreement to extend their existing service, without cable boxes, until June 30, 1996. However, the University is not committed to installing Time Warner's services when the proposed contract's time is up. Brinkley said the University will use the next 12 months to evaluate their options and decide which direction they wish to pursue. Although the larger community might be very concerned with converter boxes right now, Miller said they had little to do with the decision to re-evaluate the University's cable system. But Brinkley said disadvantages caused by the boxes were a definite downside to the Time Warner package.
Boxes are expensive.
Brinkley added that the division did not want to defer the cost to its residents either.