Once the hole is large enough, thread the hard drive cable through.
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But if independent owners can now claim discrimination in markets where the cable operator owns a sports channel, they may be able to wrestle wider carriage-which would likely drive up cable bills.
But sports fees are helping to drive up cable rates, raising concerns among media executives that consumers will soon balk at the increasing cost of television.
We will be reusing the hard drive and its cable.
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Digital video recorders--the cable industry's answer to TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people )--allow users to record programs on a hard drive inside the cable box, as well as to pause or rewind live TV.
Designed to be lightweight and cheap to produce, the robotic bicep upgrade uses a (mostly) aluminum frame, battery-powered DC motor, cable drive system, racket braking and thumbstick controller for movement, with a BeagleBone board supervising the electronics that pull it all together.
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Hopefully that doesn't lead to any unintentional interhousehold griefing as users manage the often inadequate hard drive space in their cable DVR, but it can certainly put ones mind at rest to know The League (or whatever your show of choice might be) was successfully archived.
Similar in size to a standard USB flash drive, Tiki's cable-free design allows it to plug directly into your laptop's USB port for instantaneous setup.
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And while Microsoft currently offers digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet access in conjunction with its MSN online service, it needs a cable modem offering to drive more traffic to all of its Web properties.
Clickfree has evolved traditional storage technology applications into a modern-day solution that makes saving digital content as easy as connecting your computer via USB cable to the Clickfree backup drive.
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For those customers that may not have an external hard drive, Clickfree has bundled one with their Transformer cable.
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The external drive connects directly to the desired display via USB cable and the user is able to access information stored on a CD or DVD without a PC.
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Or perhaps take it a step further and drive the online service, a threat to the traditional cable business, right into the ground?
The new Transformer USB cable instantly turns any competitor's external hard drive into a Clickfree automatic backup device, completely eliminating the hassle and confusion of installing and configuring backup software.
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There's a reason why the Xbox also works as a DVD player and has a hard drive and an Ethernet connection port on the back suitable for cable modem or a digital subscriber line Internet connection.
There's no need for any backup software - just plug the Transformer Cable into your PC and plug the included hard drive (or any other external hard drive) into the other end of the Transformer and backup will automatically start.
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Technologies like Twitter certainly drive it, but it began as a response to the advent of cable news and the realities of embedded campaign correspondents.
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There's no need for any backup software - just plug the Transformer Cable into your PC and plug any size of external hard drive from any manufacturer into the other end of the Transformer.
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Xbox One has the BluRay drive (at last) and at least the tantalizing prospect of being your cable box, too.
It scans all the shows from cable, satellite or broadcast and records ones you want on a hard drive you can access whenever you please.
It also includes an audio cable you can connect to your sound card so you can listen to music on the CD-R drive while using your CD-ROM for other tasks.
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