And, it should go without saying, that it took a whole lot to get these gaming machines to share a single power supply, video cable and control pad.
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For the last three years, Netflix has been growing by leaps and bounds, luring movie viewers away from the video store and the cable TV to its video streaming and mail order bundle.
It is rare to see Internet video that isn't just "repurposing" audio and video made for cable or closed-circuit TV.
Over time, he says, more and more satellite video customers will have cable broadband connections.
"The scale of Xfinity Watchathon Week is enormous, " said Maggie Suniewick, Vice President, Video Services, Comcast Cable.
The unit receives a video signal from analog cable or a broadcast antenna and rescales the image to be compatible with high-resolution monitors.
Selection: The video store and the cable company have more than 100 movies available to choose from, so there is something for everyone.
Fifty-five million American homes now get video from non-cable providers.
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"We're pleased that our customers will soon be able to access TWC TV via Roku, " said Mike Angus, senior vice president and general manager, video at Time Warner Cable.
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ConnecTV is the biggest social network designed specifically for TV fans-a "second screen" companion entertainment experience that complements the video programming delivered from Cable, Satellite, Telecom, Over-the-Air or On-Line Service providers.
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Scientific-Atlanta and Motorola locked up the box market by controlling--in the name of antipiracy--the encoding software that scrambles a video signal at the cable company's hub and descrambles it at the home.
There are roughly 100 million people in this country who subscribe to some kind of video service whether through cable, satellite or the telephone company, and that number is remaining steady despite the existence of alternative ways to watch TV like Hulu, Netflix, iTunes and Amazon.
The company offers gear designed to help cable and phone companies squeeze more video capacity out of a limited amount of bandwidth as consumers watch video clips on their computers, demand more channels from their cable companies, and even start to watch television on their wireless phones.
In addition, video revenues declined for several cable operators in the latest quarter.
Instead, Mr. Samuelson mostly watches high-definition movies and shows that his digital video recorder snags from his cable service.
New digital cable services like video-on-demand and high-speed Internet are catching on.
Glick licenses the software to cable and other video delivery companies which can then use it to improve the way viewers discover content.
Cable set-top box maker Scientific-Atlanta may be guilty of the most bizarre power button behavior for its digital video recorder distributed by TimeWarner Cable.
Digital video recorders--the cable industry's answer to TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people )--allow users to record programs on a hard drive inside the cable box, as well as to pause or rewind live TV.
The VGA solutions include a proprietary connector cable and interface module to accomplish all audio and video transfer and a 1.5-meter USB cable for charging iPhone 5.
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The law applies to not just broadcasters, but cable, satellite and video distributors as well.
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The explosive growth of online video was supposed to be a cable killer, right?
The cable cabal also pushes video-on-demand--individual shows sold to individual viewers at a few bucks a pop or less.
Normally, the upload requires using a USB cable and moving the video file.
Such services include broadband Internet access, telephony and on-demand video, and they help differentiate cable from its somewhat less expensive rival, satellite TV.
The bear case is that margins will fall as programming costs rise, and as cable operators increasingly subsidize video with their higher-margin broadband business.
But new technologies like digital video recorders, TiVo, digital cable and Web-based television are shifting the balance of power from traditional broadcasters to consumers.
Netflix competes with Video on Demand service provided by cable and satellite operators like Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Dish Network and DirecTV.
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By allowing cable operators to build video-storage units into their networks, the Supreme Court has vastly reduced the cost of expanding DVR service, wrote Sanford C.
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