In some markets, there are now several times more HDTV channels available over cable then over satellite.
That could free up bandwidth for local high-def channels over satellite or more high-def channels over cable systems.
In this situation, Netflix would pass higher acquisition costs on to its customers and lose its competitive edge over cable providers.
SitiCable plans to offer Internet access over cable in a dozen cities within the next six months and is pondering ways to raise the money.
Interactive digital television has yet to arrive in India, so the first customers for the Internet over cable will be users of its 3m-4m computers.
The Starr Labs AirPower relies on a proprietary 2.4GHz communications protocol, enabling MIDI guitarists to finally get their groove on without worry over cable ejections.
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In the latest tension over cable contract terms, 3.1 million Cablevision subscribers in New York and Philadelphia could lose access to broadcasts on FOX stations if the two sides do not not agree to terms by 12:00AM on October 16.
He is now intent on taking the case as far as it can go to prove that TV distribution over the Internet is the same as distribution over cable or satellite and should be treated the same as long as royalties get paid.
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The five-year-old firm, a cable-TV operator with about 30, 000 Manila customers, began offering Internet-over-cable in July as an alternative to conventional dial-up access.
Talk about rank, crass hypocrisy: cable-tv companies in the U.S. are aggressively offering consumers telephone service over their cable lines, and they do so without being burdened by many of the regulatory obstacles with which traditional carriers, such as SBC and Verizon, must cope.
Voice communications currently represent only a tiny part of the massive amounts of data carried over the cable networks.
Both on election night, and throughout the campaign, CNN won the Election 2012 Social TV battle over its cable and broadcast opponents.
Why do you prefer the phone companies over the cable companies?
In fact, Ballmer is working to persuade the big pay-TV players--Comcast and Verizon are already Xbox partners--to allow their customers the choice of an Xbox over a cable set-top.
Apple builds in a utility that appears during setup and will migrate data files, settings and apps from an older Mac, either over a cable or a wireless network.
The FCC is making "a calculated decision to use violence as the stalking horse to try to get greater censorship authority" and gain "regulatory power over basic cable, " says FX chief John Landgraf.
And you know, that's been all over the cable news channels but they had not read the famous text message yet and I actually had to show it to them on my BlackBerry.
Nowhere in the ads were any claims touting the benefits of cable over satellite.
Also, go to the Vinpearl Amusement Park in Nha Trang (get a ride in the longest over-water cable car).
Huhne's former wife Vicky Pryce claimed she had told Mr Cable over a meal before going public with the claims.
Still, some analysts say that the misguided debate over DSL versus cable is part of a larger epidemic of hype surrounding broadband.
There's no denying that Gore, a onetime newspaper reporter who had testy relations with the press during his 2000 campaign, presided over a lousy cable channel.
Perhaps the deal that is eventually reached between the Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles over their MASN cable rights will provide the best indication of what the Tigers will get.
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Silicon photonics is a new approach to using light (photons) to move huge amounts of data at very high speeds with extremely low power over a thin optical fiber rather than using electrical signals over a copper cable.
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It offers simultaneous bi-directional 10Gbps transfer speeds over a single cable, with the flexibility to daisy-chain up to six Thunderbolt-ready devices with a single connection as well as offering full display port support for a 7th Thunderbolt or display port equipped monitor.
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The dispute between the broadcast network and the cable distributor arose as the two sought to negotiate a new fee structure to be paid by Time Warner to ABC for rights to transmit the network's programs -- and those of Disney-ABC's other television properties -- over its various cable systems.
Starting in the 1990s, telecommunications companies spent billions of dollars laying fiber-optic cable all over the country.
With networks of wire already running into homes all over the country, cable companies can now deliver high-speed internet access.
All of the players come to the table with the ability to spread the games over a swath of cable channels and Internet properties.
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