That does not affect consumers, who only have the choice of one cable company anyway.
One cable would talk to the keyboard, Bhatt recalls, while another would connect a modem.
Why hasn't one cable news station switched over to high definition yet?
News of the outage came as another cable - the Main One cable linking Europe with Western Africa - was switched on.
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All sound bars connect easily to most HDTVs with just one cable.
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That's the same charging standard that the tablet uses, so in theory you could travel with just one cable and switch off as needed.
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So, were the only two big satellite firms to merge, this would leave most Americans with a choice of one cable and one satellite operator.
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But one cable company has balked at carrying Al Jazeera America: Time Warner Cable stopped carrying Current TV upon the announcement of the Al Jazeera deal.
Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Price, chairman of the committee, said on my TV One Cable Network show, "Washington Watch, " that everything should be on the table.
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In other words, once customers switch from one cable service provider to another, they become captives of the new company that can change the rules on them.
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In his July 1999 Gilder Technology Report, George writes that Lucent already possesses the know-how to cram 864 fiber-optic strands, each carrying 5 trillion bits per second, into one cable sheath.
There is an HDMI port for connecting to a display with just one cable and up to 8 USB 2.0 ports for connecting to printers, external storage, digital cameras and more.
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Even in rural areas, where customers often have only one cable TV option, competition from satellite service is increasing, though satellite providers are facing similar cost pressures and passing on higher bills.
In this case, Apple should have included more than one cable and even an adapter or two as a show of good faith, at least for the first year of the product launch.
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Without getting into the nuts and bolts of why each carrier can (and often does) offer up a different set of HD options across different markets, you can rest assured that what one cable company offers in your town is probably vastly different than what's offered by the same carrier 2, 000 miles away.
Moreover, in the few areas of America where one cable company has built over a rival's existing system, where a telephone company has set up an experimental system to deliver television signals, or where there is an old, municipally owned cable system as well as a private one, competition has led to lower prices (see chart).
In my house, I have 30-pin connectors everywhere, but I only have one Lightning cable.
"The broadcast guys are all about the path of least resistance, " one top cable sales executive says.
The president of one premium cable outlet told me last summer the project just didn't make any financial sense.
TNT, one of cable's top-rated networks, is television's destination for drama.
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All models, for instance, feature simple one-cable HDMI connections, compatibility with HDMI 1.3a Repeating and Dolby Pro Logic IIz decoding providing for front height channels.
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They also all feature simple one-cable HDMI connections and come with new easy-to-understand "Getting Started" guides that outline the steps of system setup, including networking setup where applicable.
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And the transaction costs of negotiating carriage are non-trivial, which is one reason cable TV tends to be skewed toward content offered by major media companies with large catalogs on offer.
Nick still gets 33% more viewers per day (1.6 million to 1.2 million for Disney), but Disney now is the number one basic cable channel in prime time among "tweens, " ages 9 to 14.
In a blistering letter in February to Michael Powell, the new chairman of the FCC, RadioShack, Circuit City and Sears argued that the encryption license is a self-preservation device that creates a double standard: one for the cable companies that own CableLabs and one for everyone else.
Radio One is also expanding into cable, starting TV One, a black-oriented channel in January--teamed with powerhouse Comcast.
Comcast was also one of the cable operators -- along with Time Warner Cable Inc.
You can fit 100% of Netflix streaming at peak time in one fiber optic cable.
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