In some ways the Xbox is emerging as an alternative for those who want to cut the cable cord.
There was tragedy in Italy in February as a US military jet cut the wire of a cable car in the Dolomites, killing 20 skiers.
Either way, we hope that the FCC makes both options the standard, as we can see were TV manufacturers might prefer to cut costs and let the cable co' manage the code, but at the same time leave TiVo to continue to innovate.
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Even if Americans cut cable out of the family budget due to financial hardship, the wealth of other entertainment options out will slow their return.
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The Mets, at the peak of their popularity in the mid-1980s, made the mistake of locking into a long-term cable agreement that cut them off from the escalating rights fees of the 1990s.
Simultaneously our monitors registered that the cable had been cut and the rover was down.
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The phones and the service are exactly what you'd get from Sprint, only when the bill comes at the end of the month you cut Time Warner Cable a check instead.
Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday suggested he had sympathy for those who want to "cut the cord" rather than paying for cable channels they don't watch.
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"We're able to say there's a cable cut in an exact address in the UK, " explained BT spokesman Ian Read.
"Today's action preserves the commission's decision to protect consumers and prevents cable companies from either choosing to cut off signals of must-carry broadcast stations after the digital conversion, or requiring customers to purchase higher-priced packages with set-top boxes to receive the same analog channels in digital, " said Kevin Martin, chairman of the FCC, in a statement.
We'd also need to know how big the cable was and where in its network the cut happened.
Just being slightly better than the cable company's garbage won't cut it for much longer -- again, the Media Center PC kicks your ass right now, and the high-end customer on which you're currently relying is going to figure that out soon.
Earlier this year, I took a good hard look at my cable bill to see if it was time to cut the cord.
First, the cable-television business is one where scale can help cut costs (and hopefully prices).
This latest setback, of course, follows an FCC decision to allow companies to encrypt their basic cable channels -- the authorization was reportedly granted to cut back on service theft, among other concerns.
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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Sounds a lot more like the cable company lobbying for the ability to jack rates and then keeping its cut.
Secondly, it's said that it'll do 1080p video playback via HDMI, but the collection of leaked images shows the phone connected to a composite RCA cable, which isn't gonna cut it for 1080p -- and we're not buying that the display itself is going to be capable of that kind of resolution.
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Time Warner Cable is staffing call centers with experts who have specialized training designed to cut down on the number of disconnects, and customers have greater flexibility in choosing how to connect with customer service.
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These telecoms have been rolling out cable-like television service and may take advantage of the improved economics of offering DVR services to cut their prices.
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