But Moffett thinks the real issue here is cord-cutting for economic reasons, and not technological ones.
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Yesterday, the Trefis Team wrote a post about how Netflix is not getting a big boost from cord-cutting.
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Even if this new effort from Microsoft is a mediocre success, it will accelerate the trend towards cable TV cord-cutting.
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The consulting currently helps a variety of media companies cope with the many changes created by disruptive technology, such as cord-cutting.
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We're starting to notice a rapidly growing trend heading directly into cord-cutting.
Kessler may or may not be wrong about cord-cutting being a result of a down economy, but he is right about many other things.
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Cord-cutting is the act of faith that you can get rid of cable television and still entertain yourself in the labyrinth of Internet television options.
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This detente with TV powers is something of a switch from a couple of years ago, when Roku was touting its products to cable cord-cutters.
The cable guys are terrified of the alleged cord-cutting trend where people dump their cable or satellite services in favor of streaming movies and television over the Internet.
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As a new network with no corporate parentage and no legacy restrictions, The Blaze can afford to negotiate deals that allow it to satisfy both pay-TV subscribers and cord-cutters.
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The existing guidance on cord-clamping was published in 2007, when the consensus was that cutting the cord immediately was the best option - something which had been the case for decades.
If cord-cutters were a political party, the first plank of their platform would be the right to subscribe to HBO directly over the internet without signing up for cable or satellite TV service.
This may change in the future, and certainly cord-cutting is on the rise, but at the present there is no incentive for HBO to worry about piracy or to offer a stand-alone service.
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The Switch 8 has the ability to change from a universal USB charger to a flashlight, fan or a cord-free charger with built-in tips for phones, such as iPhone, Droid, and 1, 000s of other handheld devices.
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Patients contracted fungal meningitis -- which results in inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord -- after their spines were injected with a contaminated, preservative-free steroid called methylprednisolone acetate, health officials have said.
But cord-replacement applications like the wireless headsets used for consumer cell phones are likely to be very useful for business users such as call-center operators, sales people, or real estate agents on the road, he says.
They stream movies via Netflix and watch TV shows on Hulu and with help from a new generation of set-top gadgets like Roku and AppleTV, cord-cutters are finding it easier every day to route online content to their home TV.
The kit is also versatile, with interchangeable tips it has the ability to change from a universal USB charger to a flashlight, fan or a cord-free charger with built-in tips for phones, such as iPhone, Droid and thousands of other handheld devices.
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Of course, similar to the situation that sees Showtime favorites like Dexter available on Netflix in Latin America but not here in the States, it doesn't make it any more likely HBO will suddenly become cord-cutter friendly at home -- this is an international deal only.
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The biggest fear in the cable and satellite TV industry is that the growing availability of video programming over the Web through Netflix (NFLX), Hulu and a host other services will lead to rampant cord-cutting that could create the kind of steady erosion in customers that the wireline phone companies have been seeing for many months now.
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The boom mic produces better sound than the on-cord mic, as is standard, though the on-cord mic may be used for calls when using with your smartphone.
Unlike the A40s, which have a built-in cord, the A30s have a quick-release cord which plugs in just below the left earcup.
Featuring a simple, single cord set-up, the new space-saving Inspiron all-in-one computers make life easy and deliver powerful entertainment for the whole family.
The patent isn't a certain sign that your VAIO or Xperia is about to cut the cord altogether -- Sony first submitted this vision of the future in 2009.
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And several studies show that even people with spinal-cord injuries tend to rebound in spirits.
She says surgery for vocal-cord nodules left scar tissue that prevents her from singing.
Kieselstein- Cord says his workers asked for the surveillance as a way of protecting their profit sharing.
Even after a quarter-century, Kieselstein- Cord still supervises every design and finished product in his midtown Manhattan studio.
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