"There's plenty of room for cable, DSL, wireless, and satellite, " says Michael Harris, president of Kinetic Strategies.
The joint reference design meets the demand for in-room HDMI cable replacement applications as well as whole-home full-HD video content sharing, using standards-based Wi-Fi networking technology.
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You sit in the living room watching a cable TV talk show aimed at women.
There is not room for two cable news networks to make money in Britain, for example.
If it's something in the living room, like your cable set-top box or stereo, Microsoft could be in trouble.
There are extra costs involved - and it's not just a case of wiring a cable into the third umpire's room either.
Traditionally, Soundbars are accompanied by a separate subwoofer that takes up space on the floor of the room and requires an additional cable to connect it.
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Streaming has officially made the jump from a lonely obsession carried out with a laptop and headphones to the standard alternative to cable TV, viewed on the living room TV like everything else.
It's basically the digital equivalent of having a box of your ex's stuff, but instead of hiding it in your closet, you're displaying it in your living room for all visitors and cable men to see.
Cable operators could say there wasn't room for niche channels with the addition of bandwidth-clogging analog signals.
According to Forrester Research, by 2016 half of all households will have Wi-Fi-enabled devices on their televisions, which will bring all those new channels into the living room, tempting people to cancel their pricey cable subscriptions.
That is why Mr Cable also wants more "diversity" in the board room - more "lawyers, public servants and academics", according to a briefing from the Business Department - to introduce the views of the wider world into discussions about how and how much an executive should be rewarded.
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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.
Wolk goes so far as to suggest that cable providers will focus on making tablets their main hardware presence in the living room instead of leaning on set-top boxes.
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In one corner of the room, a plastic headset and goggles hung droopily from a long black cable.
Watch your favorite cable programs in the kitchen, then hook up to a game console in the living room for some action!
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The majority held that by providing individual streams to consumers according to their specific commands, Aereo was less like a cable-TV system than a consumer streaming a TV show from a Slingbox in one room to a TV set in another.
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Still, penetration rates for both cable and satellite are relatively low in Mexico, says Christy, and Grupo TV has plenty of room to grow as the nation's consumers move up the economic ladder.
Among other extraordinary women in the room, there was a first generation entrepreneur as well as a woman who established the first cable company in India.
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