When my Internet goes down, my cable service still works most of the time.

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Call me nostalgic, but I enjoy the reruns of long ago so my cable and DVD collection works for me.

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The Series3 works with NTSC, ATSC, Analog Cable and QAM (no way to manually map QAM channels).

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It has a search mechanism that works better than anything on a current cable or satellite finder interface.

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This isn't clever booth wiring, the HW-F750 has Bluetooth and works with SoundShare, which should keep cable-haters happy.

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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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Telecommuting is a great deal when it works, and only became possible in my part of the state with the arrival of cable modems about eight years ago.

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