Of the 30% without cable service, about 10% came to Roku without previously having cable service.
But it may also spark renewed price competition between broadband service providers, such as phone companies like Verizon Communications pushing digital subscriber line service, and cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner offering cable modem service.
Any agreement that gives AOL the ability to sell its high-speed service via cable lines not owned by Time Warner would be a huge victory for the struggling Internet service provider.
You can upgrade nearly any service from cable TV to car washes.
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Phone service from cable companies is also dependent on power, but most companies supply backup batteries to power the phones for some hours in an outage.
Beginning in the 1920s, broadcast television was delivered free over local airwaves, and even when the industry started charging for service via cable networks, the free broadcasts kept coming.
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But consider what the last 25 years have brought to small towns: cheap overnight delivery service, cable television, USA Today, national retail chains, Internet access, cell phone coverage and broadband.
Digital cable service usually costs more than analog service because it generally requires subscribers to pay a monthly fee for a digital cable box.
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.
If the Court rules that the 9th Circuit was wrong, the FCC was right, and cable is an information service, it would keep cable networks completely closed to outside ISPs, assuring that cable operators are able to continue to benefit from that revenue.
When my Internet goes down, my cable service still works most of the time.
Consumers should check with their cable service provider to confirm compatibility with their system.
In 1995 Disney dropped the pay-channel approach to turn the outlet into a basic cable service.
In 2011, SNL expects 4.5 million people, or 4% to abandon their cable service.
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Instead, Mr. Samuelson mostly watches high-definition movies and shows that his digital video recorder snags from his cable service.
Cable service outages are down to about 14% from initial estimates of 25%.
Service expansion like cable and satellite was funded by premium subscription fees.
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Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida speculated that in the future, the company might use a subscription service not unlike cable TV.
Netflix competes with Video on Demand service provided by cable and satellite operators like Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Dish Network and DirecTV.
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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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So says Imran Shah, a cofounder and managing partner of IBB Consulting, which offers advice to broadband-related product and service providers in cable, mobile and media.
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Never mind that technology from enterprise software companies like Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) can speed the process Cable service providers do not seem to be anxious to adopt these technologies.
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It is fair to point out that cable service improved dramatically over that period, expanding from dozens to hundreds of channels, most of which are now in HD.
Traditional cable service is based on charging based on the perceived value of content HBO costs a lot more than C-SPAN even though they may consume identical amounts of bandwidth.
The ability to stream full movies and concerts on the PS3 and PS Vita systems is included as part of the EPIX premium subscription service available through cable, satellite and telco distributors.
For example, instead of having to separately check to see if a movie or show is available through Netflix or a cable service, all the material could be integrated, this person said.
Most of them involve a theory arguing that the company wants to work with content producers to deliver an a la carte cable service that would provide a greater choice to consumers.
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The Optical SMART Hub breaks new ground by functioning as a Wireless AP router changing broadband Internet service with a cable from the wall to Wi-Fi Internet connection so that all family members can enjoy wireless connection at home.
The largest drop on the list belonged to Newsday, whose owners, Cablevision, last year implemented an unforgiving online pay wall in the hopes that such a move would help them to sell bundled newspaper and cable service subscriptions.
Notice that in none of this platform prattle have I even mentioned the current titans that have been warring over TV for years: The cable service providers, satellite companies, even the programmers that produce and deliver the content we all love.
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