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.
The premise is simple: a behind the scenes look inside a national cable news program that has declared an end to histrionics and partisan commentary that ginned gin up ratings.
If that occurs, digital cable could migrate from the box above the TV set to the inside, just as analog cable did.
Many of the set-top boxes supplied by NTL have a cable modem inside that could do the same job.
But then the Steelers didn't, and the game pushed into overtime, with a lengthy catalog of new NFL rules that sounded more complicated than installing cable television inside a ship in a bottle.
Last year, CNBC poached Robert Frank, the author of Richistan and The High-Beta Rich and pioneer of the wealth beat at The Wall Street Journal, to set up the Inside Wealth blog at the cable channel.
An externalized conductor occurs when the cable, or conductor, from inside the lead wears through the outer silicone insulation around the lead and appears outside the insulation body.
Mr Cable noted the "very strong feelings inside and outside the House" as he was greeted with cries of "shame!"
The other potential crack in the cable armor: Apple could put a broadcast tuner inside an Apple TV, of course, while offering a way for broadcast network shows to be recorded in iCloud, like a DVR in the sky.
Two months ago, five passengers and two workers were injured after the bolt caused their cable car to slam to a sudden stop, tossing them violently inside the vehicle.
Richards and Randall went to a house in Whitbourne on 5 October 2011 armed with a crowbar, chisel and cable ties and broke into the property while White and Merrick were inside, West Mercia Police said.
But let's face it: These are cable channels with relatively modest audiences, and their impact is sometimes exaggerated inside the Beltway echo chamber.
Baked right inside the matte plastic case is a dual tuner capable of pulling in unencrypted basic cable channels and over-the-air HD broadcasts.
ENGADGET: Boxee TV delivers dual-tuners and cloud-based DVR for $99 November 1st
It promised the cable companies that the future would be theirs if they allowed Microsoft to build the operating system that went inside the set-top boxes.
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