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HDHomeRun connects to your existing TV antenna or cable TV outlet, and to your router via Ethernet.
ENGADGET: Elgato offers HDHomeRun TV tuner bundled with its EyeTV software for $180
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The unit receives a video signal from analog cable or a broadcast antenna and rescales the image to be compatible with high-resolution monitors.
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The Nielsen Company has monitored TV audiences since 1950, but soon it will expand that definition from solely households with antenna, cable or satellite access, but also those that have dropped those options but still get video over the internet.
ENGADGET: Nielsen ratings expand definition of TV households to include internet-only viewers
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HDHomeRun connects to a TV antenna or digital cable and wirelessly streams live television in full HD to any Mac or PC in the house.
ENGADGET: Elgato offers HDHomeRun TV tuner bundled with its EyeTV software for $180
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TD-LTE is the 4G standard developed for use across China, and it is now being adopted by operators across the globe. lightRadio Metro Radio houses two lightRadio cubes, fully integrated with a directional antennae, allowing it to provide the coverage normally associated with a much bulkier, heavier remote radio unit linked to an external antenna via an RF coaxial cable.
ENGADGET: Alcatel-Lucent's latest lightRadio development aims to spread TD-LTE across China
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Rather than having to dig up the streets to lay cable or fiber, WinStar plugs in an antenna on a customer's rooftop and bingo, you have a dial tone.
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The fact is that HD via ATSC only works in applications where the antenna is stationary, which means that cable or satellite work just as well, but of course aren't free.
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So Aereo is renting the antenna and the infrastructure to its customers just as cable companies rent to theirs.
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Although anyone with an antenna can pick up a station's signals for free, cable and satellite companies typically pay stations and networks for the right to distribute their programming to subscribers.
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An Aereo consumer uses a remotely located individual antenna and DVR, so users never have to worry about installing equipment or waiting for the 'cable guy.
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