And, as a connoisseur of PVRs, you understand that the cable companies offer anemic light-weight versions.
All cable companies offer great bundling deals to new customers but those prices shoot way up after the six months are over.
Most cable providers offer packages with well over 100 channels filled with content unaffected by the labor strike: news, news magazines, sports, movie channels, cooking shows.
Now, for the first time, Allen is competing directly with Gates for the same business: set-top-box software that lets cable companies offer digital video recording, video on demand and, eventually, shopping.
Cable companies offer their channels in bundle packages.
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Even PLDT, which already operates a cable-TV system and an Internet service provider, is planning to offer cable Net access, "maybe before the end of 1999, " says Samson.
Cable and DSL offer persistent Net connections, or always-on connections, removing squealing, temperamental modems from the picture completely.
There are reports today that Apple is in talks with cable companies to offer viewers an Apple set-top box.
The venture's aim is to allow the cable companies to offer their customers a "quadruple play" of television, telephones, Internet access and wireless phones.
Those fast lines and digital connections allow cable vendors to offer bandwidth-intensive, interactive services that satellite vendors like Echostar Communications (nasdaq: DISH - news - people ) and DirecTV can't.
The gateway allows cable operators to offer their subscribers new features and services such as streaming of live linear television to IP connected devices, whole-home DVR, and a remote user interface on an RDK-compliant platform.
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Verizon has built much of the infrastructure it needs to deliver the service, and it continues to negotiate with television networks for the rights to show the same kind of programming that cable networks already offer.
While the upside is vast, Netflix must compete for this growing demographic with established cable and satellite operators that offer streaming and pay-TV services like Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Dish Network and DirecTV.
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The big idea here is to offer packages that bundle together cable TV, cable Internet, VoIP, and wireless services and offer them to subscribers at a price that would be less than signing up for each service individually.
It isn't clear precisely what wireless services the cable operators intend to offer via the WiMax venture.
Cable is cheaper and faster than phone lines, and more cable companies will also offer local telephone service.
And since more and more campuses offer free cable hookups, students have got hundreds of channels to choose from.
The newspaper Perfil quoted a leaked Iranian diplomatic cable that detailed the offer.
Or they can help newcomers to switch by promising compatibility, as when cable-television companies offer to convert old televisions to the new system.
According to Bloomberg, the aforementioned cable providers want to offer higher-quality games than those provided by Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) and other social game developers.
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Even as it now loses customers when it doesn't produce results, Adelphia, like all cable companies, is finding that to offer new services it must replace more coaxial cable than expected with bigger and cleaner fiber lines to serve as the trunk of its networks.
It also pits Hollywood against the cable and satellite carriers that offer its movies, as well as electronics makers.
To stanch the bleeding, some cable companies have begun to quietly offer stripped-down plans to retain viewers.
They point out that only around half of America's cable systems are modern enough to offer consumers high-speed Internet access.
SitiCable plans to offer Internet access over cable in a dozen cities within the next six months and is pondering ways to raise the money.
To supplant cable and DSLthe power companies have to offer a service that's vastly cheaper and faster.
Cable operators want to be able to offer the "quadruple play" of communication bundles--Internet, television, voice-over-IP and wireless telephony.
Cable and satellite services are beginning to offer cheap DVR features, too.
Digital television in Britain terrestrial, cable and satellite together will offer around 50 channels.
Cable operators have been trying forever to offer such programming a la carte, or at least as a premium tier that most non-fans could avoid.
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