Is it too much to ask that our cable connections work, that our phone calls not be dropped, that our new devices work as promised, that our travel arrangements go as planned?
McNamara: Even more so than on the typical New Year's Day, look for people to stay the heck home... presuming the electricity and cable TV still work.
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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These high-performance wireless headphones are charged via the included USB cable, but also work in passive mode.
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This change will not affect the ability of any TV to work with cable boxes, satellite boxes, DVDs, VCRs or game consoles.
In other words, have the studios basically just given up on developing movies that might be a hit for someone like Halle Berry partially because they know those actresses will find work on cable?
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Finally, there's some hope that the CE and cable industry can actually work together, as seen in Comcast's RDK program that's pushing the development of this box and others (like that Humax box we spotted floating through the FCC) with similar capabilities.
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Abroad Corning has been busy doing joint development work with foreign cable makers.
Sprint will also work with the cable operators to develop new wireless hardware that uses both cable and cellular services.
There was a "clear correlation" between price of copper on commodity markets and rates of crime, he told MPs, suggesting cable theft was largely the work of "professional criminals".
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But just to cover Long Island in Verizon TV service, there's a lot of work left: Cable competitor Cablevision (nyse: CVC - news - people ) has 110 separate franchises on Long Island, according to company spokesman Jim Maiella.
Aides to deputy prime minister, and Lib Dem leader, Nick Clegg, who unlike Mr Cable saw a copy of the speech before it was released, said he was "proud" of the work both he and Mr Cable had done on the coalition's "sensible" immigration policy.
Key sticking points include residuals - the monies writers receive when their work is repeated on cable TV and in foreign markets - and payments from video and DVD sales.
"We are excited to work with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks to bring fans football 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, " said NFL Network President and CEO Steve Bornstein.
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So even while Facebook tries to steal ad revenue from TV, it also may find itself forced by brand advertisers to work with the broadcast and cable networks whose revenues it covets.
The channel creators coming from broadcast and cable television relish the fact that their YouTube work won't live or die on traditional Nielsen ratings.
Eircom is planning to free up capital by selling about half of its 90-odd "depos" the offices where employees report to work, trucks are parked and cable is stored.
Work on the fibre-optic underground cable network will start immediately and be 90% complete by 2014.
The potential competitive advantage for the cable companies has underscored concerns in Verizon's landline work force that the company is marginalizing its landline business in favor of the far more lucrative wireless part of the company, several current and past employees said.
Mr Cable suggested in his speech that the future business bank could work with commercial banks such as the UK's Co-Op, and the British operation of Swedish lender Handelsbanken.
His work producing health documentaries in the 1980s evolved into a cable channel called America's Health Network.
Most of them involve a theory arguing that the company wants to work with content producers to deliver an a la carte cable service that would provide a greater choice to consumers.
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The other is fragmentation: in the past, cable companies have gone their own ways, producing boxes that could not work on each other's systems.
Unknown to most, the buzzy SoMA neighbourhood where most of these winemakers work was once called South of the Slot (referring to the cable car line that ran down the centre of Market Street) and was home to more than 100 wineries in the late 1800s, including J Gundlach and Co, California's oldest continuously family-owned winery (now based in Sonoma).
Cable offers more creative freedom, lower Nielsen expectations and a significantly shorter season of work.
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Comcast Cable Chief Executive Neil Smit said at a conference last month that his company will work with Verizon Wireless to develop and integrate new products, giving Comcast "a very important strategic competitive advantage, " according to a transcript.
For the last 20 years, Garofalo, who made millions for her work in stand-up and in such films as Reality Bites, The Cable Guy and 200 Cigarettes, over the past twenty years, has likely been filing her taxes as single.
As these companies have already announced work on compatible technology, some of which we've seen recently at The Cable Show, the names there aren't the surprise, it's the one that isn't (yet), LG.
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Not Apple in their App Store, not Netflix in their movie recommendations, not Amazon at a level of simplicity that will work for people on couches in front of their TVs, and certainly not the cable companies.
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Installation of these do-it-yourself security kits is a breeze thanks to simple Cat5E cabling that offers a range up to 400 feet for HDTV cameras (no separate cable is required to power the cameras) and a robust feature set that takes the guess work and hassle out of integrating the system within one's network.
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