Connecting the box to home broadband will power the backward TV guide, give access to On Demand and the full Showcase.

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Unfortunately, if past experience is any guide, unless there is a concerted demand for such information, it is unlikely to be forthcoming.

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The ability to use your iPhone or iPod touch to control your U-verse TV with a full-featured, intuitive U-verse remote control with channel, guide, DVR, interactive app and on-demand controls, now available on the U-verse App for iPhone and iPod touch.

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Simultaneously, we need awareness-raising campaigns to reduce demand, especially among consumers in Asia, and to use the best available market research to guide social media campaigns.

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Besides obviously needing a CableCard-ready TV set (most new digital HDTVs have to have CableCard slots), there are a few downsides, like you can't access your cable company's onscreen programming guide and you can't order pay-per-view or video-on-demand programming (at least not using your remote), but the real deal killer for us is that you won't be able to use it with a digital video recorder.

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FiOS TV customers will be able to access EPIX content simply by pressing the "On Demand" button on their remote control, by choosing "VOD" in FiOS TV's interactive media guide main menu, or by selecting channel 900 (FiOS TV's VOD channel).

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