Sony, Microsoft, TiVo and a wave of other companies are flooding the market with products for the living room that can receive TV shows and films via traditional cable, broadcast and satellite hookups--and also the Web.
Mr. MARASH: The Internet is coming up fast and I don't think anybody doubts that in the very foreseeable future, the Internet is going to supplant broadcast cable and satellite television, but for now, if you want to reach eyeballs, as they say, in this industry, conventional television - in the United States at least - is still the way to go.
The marketing info claims no PC is required for setup, recharging via USB, an internet browser with real time access to scores, fantasy info and TV listings for broadcast, cable and satellite from click365's wireless partners.
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In the same period, the numbers of telco and satellite subscribers and broadcast-only homes all rose.
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EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS) provides equipment sales, digital broadcast operations, and satellite services that enhance today's digital TV lifestyle, including products from Sling Media, Inc.
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About EchoStar Corporation EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS) provides equipment sales, digital broadcast operations, and satellite services that enhance today's digital TV lifestyle, including products from Sling Media, Inc.
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Domestic Television Distribution (WBDTD) is one of the leading suppliers of entertainment programming to the domestic television marketplace, distributing first-run syndicated series, off-network television programs and theatrical motion pictures to local broadcast television stations, as well as to pay, cable, digital, satellite and broadcast networks throughout the U.S. WBDTD handles the domestic distribution of television series produced by Warner Bros.
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Apple and Samsung, Software companies like Microsoft and Google, retailers like Amazon and Walmart, plus the broadcast networks, and cable and satellite companies, focused on improving the user experience of television.
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Domestic Television Distribution (WBDTD) is one of the leading suppliers of entertainment programming to the domestic television marketplace, distributing first-run syndicated series, off-network television programs and theatrical motion pictures to local broadcast television stations, as well as to pay, cable, satellite, broadcast networks and digital platforms throughout the U.S. WBDTD handles the domestic distribution of television series produced by Warner Bros.
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Two good sources for high-def schedules, both satellite and broadcast, are Hdtvgalaxy.com and Titantv.com.
It scans all the shows from cable, satellite or broadcast and records ones you want on a hard drive you can access whenever you please.
These various compressed formats then support the growing number of distribution channels from traditional cable, satellite, broadcast and digital cinema and increasingly are finding their way into various internet and cell phone network based distribution channels.
DirecTV is the second largest pay-TV service provider after Comcast and the largest direct broadcast satellite service provider in the United States.
Examples include direct broadcast television, satellite communications, and earth mapping.
We could, belated though it may be, engage in serious radio broadcasting into Iran, just as we once broadcast into the Soviet Union and its satellite nations during the Cold War.
After working with religious broadcaster Pat Robertson, Johnson Sr. realized his biggest barrier was distribution, so he applied for the first allocation of direct broadcast satellite frequencies in 1980 and won eight.
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Indeed, Comcast's involvement is symptomatic of a broader trend in America's media business: consolidation between those who make music, movies and television programmes, and those who distribute them, whether via broadcast networks or, increasingly, via cable, satellite and the internet.
Then cable and satellite TV came along and were required to carry those broadcast channels too.
News Corp. is a global media company with operations engaged in producing, acquiring, and licensing various operations in film, television, cable network programming, direct broadcast satellite TV, integrated marketing services, newspapers, magazines and books publishing.
Telecom regulator Ofcom announced Wednesday that British Sky Broadcasting, the country's biggest satellite broadcaster and main broadcast partner for the English Premier League, must offer its main sports channels, Sky Sports 1 and 2, to other cable, Internet and terrestrial channels at cheaper wholesale prices.
This time the threat seems real and imminent: Two satellite networks are poised to carve up radio's fiefdoms just as cable and satellite TV did to the broadcast networks.
The video, posted on August 16, has been watched more than 121, 000 times, according to YouTube, hinting at the allure of jihad in a war constantly broadcast on both private and state-run Arabic satellite channels.
The job for the broadcast status quo, which includes the cable and satellite companies, is to provide the easiest, most seamless and pleasurable device experience they can to their existing customers so that they will entropically stick around as the world changes around them.
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Basic cable is now in 70 million homes, and 30 million homes get direct-broadcast satellite.
It was broadcast by a satellite television station in Hunan province and relayed nationwide on cable networks.
So much so that now Televisa, which controls around a 70% share of the broadcast television market in Mexico and is also the principal satellite and cable TV operator in Mexico, will lean on Univision to begin conquering English speaking audiences.
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Renee Klosterman, acting multimedia services manager at Washington's DIS, said her state's commitment to video technology is proven by a special Interactive Technologies Division within DIS, a mature videoconferencing system and a satellite TV studio that has all the cameras, production equipment and personnel needed to produce broadcast-quality video.
His television show, broadcast throughout the Arab world on an Islamic satellite channel and subtitled in English, brings studio audiences to tears with talk of sacrifice and martyrdom.
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IBiquity's mission is to defend conventional broadcast radio against the up-and-coming threat of satellite radio services, particularly XM Satellite Radio (nasdaq: XMSR - news - people ) and Sirius Satellite Radio (nasdaq: SIRI - news - people ).
Broadcast television has only one (advertising), satellite television has one and a half (subscriptions and a bit of advertising), and telecoms companies have two (telephone and high-speed Internet).
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