About an hour later, when the lifeboat was being hoisted back up to the deck, a cable holding it snapped and a hook holding the lifeboat on a second cable gave way, sending the lifeboat plunging into the port upside down, the authority said in a statement.
Welcome to the new world of TV, where over-the-air networks are looking for fees from cable and satellite providers the same way that cable networks are.
Chan saw great potential in China, where a two-way cable infrastructure hadn't been built, and invested.
Although NBC is owned by General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), it is not a part of a stable of production houses, recording studios and cable outlets the way its Big Four peers are--each of them part of an entire content distribution chain.
The truth is that CableCARDs have been capable of authorizing two-way communications for some time, but there wasn't a way for 3rd party cable devices to be certified by CableLabs -- like the latest cable deployed STBs -- for two-way communication.
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Building cable properties is another way moneylosing hockey teams make money for their owners.
Compare the openness of the Internet with the way the cable industry operates.
For its part, Microsoft is betting that cable is the cheapest way to computerize 100 million homes, beating out telephone lines with modems.
One way these companies can make money is through subscription fees from cable and satellite operators, in the same way HBO gets a cut for every subscriber.
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The Series3 works with NTSC, ATSC, Analog Cable and QAM (no way to manually map QAM channels).
It is devoted to television and entertainment in a way that the cable companies, with their primary interest in telecoms, never can be.
The audience has been trained by cable television to react this way: to hate the nagging wives, the dumb civilians, who might sour the fun of masculine adventure.
This is a relatively subtle way by Time Warner Cable to test customer response.
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That means that Clicker, and CBS, could be on their way to replacing the cable TV guide.
Every device requires its own power cable, which somehow has a way of tangling and knotting itself when you aren't looking.
Sprint is currently the No. 3 cellular provider in the country, behind Cingular and Verizon , and the cable partnership could go a long way toward helping it catch up.
The recent speculation that Apple will move into the set top box business in partnership with one or more of the cable operators sounds like a logical way around this impasse.
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Unshackled, entrepreneurs would find ways to team up with existing holders of rights of way, such as cable, gas and telephone companies, railroads and highways, to run power lines to new customers, e.g.
Labour former cabinet minister David Blunkett called for a reassurance that the "personal opposition" of Mr Huhne and Business Secretary Vince Cable would not get in the way of deals to forge nuclear components in Sheffield.
Now they are trying to turn these ramshackle federations into alliances bound together with new broadband cable that can carry two-way traffic and deliver sports, movies, online shopping and other luxuries to consumers who are willing to pay extra for them.
Besides meaning you have one less ugly component to deal with, getting rid of the cable box also usually means better picture quality and you don't have pay rental fees for your box any more (though we have faith that the cable companies will eventually find a way to charge seven bucks a month for CableCard rentals).
Meanwhile, cable companies will have to find a way to convince customers that the service is something they need.
In the late 1980s Anschutz got contracts from the likes of MCI to lay fiber-optic cable along his railroads' rights of way.
While you can still buy a TiVo box at retail, Rogers notes that the company has been pushing its way into more deals with cable operators, and now has licenses with 9 of the 21 largest U.S. pay TV services.
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Of course, that implies that those who just get the regular channel packages or movies are somehow "low quality, " but we'll leave that for another article, as I'm sure Dish and every cable company describes their customers the same way.
The only way for the networks and the cable companies to grow will be to buy Web-based channels.
The assumption was that the navigator lost his way before the plane struck the cable of a barrage balloon over Fishponds in Bristol.
And cable is widely held to be the best way of delivering high-speed Internet access, and with it the whole of the digital future.
Asked about China's call for a new global reserve currency, Cable said it would be "a sensible way for the world to move" but that it would not happen quickly.
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