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Here's the scoop: CableCard is literally a card that you pop into the back of your TV set so that you can get rid of your digital cable box and plug that coax directly into your digital TV (it's sort of like how you can use analog cable on a cable-ready analog TV without a cable box).
According to Morgan Stanley, 91% of cable-ready homes in the U.S. have access to advanced services, and the National Cable and Communications Association says that more than a third of U.S. cable customers subscribe to digital cable.
Rob Marcus, Time Warner Cable's chief operating officer, said on an earnings call last week that Verizon FiOS had been "tough competitors" in New York and said Time Warner Cable was ready to match Verizon's aggressive marketing of the service.
So unless you think the cable guys will accept lower margins, get ready to boost your cable payments unless the regulators step in.
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While I'm not ready to stop paying my cable bill just yet, I'm not admitting defeat.
Her colleague, all ready to go live on cable TV, grabs them and flicks through the ruling.
Those tremors of change can also be seen in the awards show that celebrates the efforts of daytime TV as the 39th annual Daytime Emmys gets ready to air Saturday on cable rather than network TV.
Connect and plug in the power adapter and then hook up the optical cable, and it's pretty much ready to go -- save for some pairing woes that required us to unplug everything.
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It offers simultaneous bi-directional 10Gbps transfer speeds over a single cable, with the flexibility to daisy-chain up to six Thunderbolt-ready devices with a single connection as well as offering full display port support for a 7th Thunderbolt or display port equipped monitor.
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With its middleware Biddle software (based on the same DVB-GEM spec as OCAP, and also available to cable operators) included on a Blu-ray disc, the company claims its ready to deliver an "interactive TV service" consisting of VOD, web browsing, e-mail, social networking access or nearly anything else you can imagine.
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Sony will send the new Will Smith movie, Hancock, to Internet-ready Bravia TV sets in November, before it can be seen on DVD or on cable.
The introduction of Internet-ready HD TVs in the next few years presents a major threat of disintermediation for TV operators (cable, satellite, and telecom companies), as consumers will be able to access high-quality online video directly through their HD TVs.
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