No longer is content browsing limited to the cable guide or Netflix suggestion list.

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Or you can dig deep into your cable guide.

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That means that Clicker, and CBS, could be on their way to replacing the cable TV guide.

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Besides obviously needing a CableCard-ready TV set (most new digital HDTVs have to have CableCard slots), there are a few downsides, like you can't access your cable company's onscreen programming guide and you can't order pay-per-view or video-on-demand programming (at least not using your remote), but the real deal killer for us is that you won't be able to use it with a digital video recorder.

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Tethered to a large helium-filled balloon, the 23-pound Sword, as it's known, was able to climb up and down the long cable while workers kept the balloon steady with guide ropes.

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It comes with a miniature aerial (MCX), a rod aerial with magnetic base and removable suction cup, a printed Quick Start Guide, and a USB charging cable (intended for use with the EyeTV Mobile battery, not designed to charge an iPad).

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In Wolk's vision of the near future, cable companies will focus on using tablets that act as remote controls and TV guide replacements with baked-in second screen experiences.

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And, ominously, a cadre of four of its biggest cable customers, sick of Gemstar's near-monopoly, have developed a competing interactive guide that was painstakingly designed to avoid infringing Gemstar's patent portfolio.

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Set-top box manufacturers and satellite-TV providers are fighting Gemstar to keep their own guides, and now four large U.S. cable companies are mobilizing to launch a service that will go head on with Gemstar's interactive guide.

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