If we had to guess, we'd say that HBO's oh-so-friendly cable partners aren't going to be inclined to let such a solid idea actually happen.
Oddly enough, the teen in question jacked the console and left the oh-so-critical power cable behind, but instead of devising yet another heist, he simply phoned Microsoft, gave out all his credentials (including the machine's serial number), and awaited the cable.
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Time Warner Cable isn't the only one who thinks tiered broadband is the future -- so does the American Cable Association (ACA).
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The idea is to have base stations everywhere beaming Net connections at 2.4 megabits per second--faster than top cable modem speeds--so that people can be connected no matter if they are in the street, in a car or at a restaurant.
Obviously one the things we have today is that we have a 24-hour news cycle, we have 24-hour cable and so forth.
The measure would put online radio providers on the same footing as cable and satellite radio, applying the so-called 801(b) standard used for more than 30 years to establish royalty rates for cable and satellite to the Internet too.
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The Federal Communications Commission could hasten this process, but it's been politically reluctant to do so--why upset thousands of local pols and the powerful TV and cable industries?
If not, you've probably already missed your chance to pick up one of those three HD-A1s from your local Best Buy, so kick back with your over-the-air, cable or satellite HD, and let someone else fight the format war for you.
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In an unfortunate twist of fate, however, the reference model wasn't able to charge -- despite an adapter cable being flown in especially from Europe -- so we were unable to see that docking mechanism (or that Haswell chip) in action.
Traditionally, that has meant a movie hits theaters first, followed several months later by DVDs, video-on-demand, subscription-cable channels, and so on.
Some contracts include so-called most-favored nation clauses, which make programmers give the biggest cable companies the best price they are offering anywhere, among other conditions.
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We got some details on Verizon's (and Time Warner Cable's) so-called six strikes policy for dealing with piracy back in November, but TorrentFreak has now turned up more details on just how it will work.
The economics of sports networks on cable television is well documented -- the majority pay so that the vocal minority may watch -- but sculpting an amateur sports league to ensure your cable TV channel gets carriage in America's largest media markets might be a new twist.
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He built an innovative cable car system so that slum-dwellers in Caracas whose houses were built precariously on hillsides, could more easily access the centre of the capital.
Also poised to gain: the network's bottom line. (As a 50% owner and its namesake, there are significant incentives for the self-made billionaire as well.) Despite its reach--OWN is a re-branding of an already established cable service, Discovery Health Channel, so it counts some 75 million in its current subscriber base--it earns only 13 cents per subscriber in its current non-Winfrey form, according to industry research firm SNL Kagan.
And so all the IPTV operators were looking for a cable-less solution to do that in-home transmission.
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The cable guys turned it over to ABC for the so-called BCS contests, the ones that draw the real ratings.
Yet current casting is not so monolithic, and it varies from cable to network, from sick-joke satire to earnest heart-tugger.
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.
So Congress rewrote the telecom act in 1992 to ban companies affiliated with cable-TV operators from discriminating against rivals.
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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.
These companies own big businesses tied to dying services (land-line phones) and low- or no-growth services (such as broadband internet or cable subscriptions), so profits and share prices generally went down.
But while ad-supported cable continues to soar, the broadcast nets haven't fared so well.
That sort of unbundling will take a while, due to a Byzantine system of contracts, so in the meantime, cable companies can embrace alternative methods of distribution by pushing high-speed internet access, as the Time Warner president said in the article.
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The cable industry has been successful so far poaching voice customers from phone companies with one-bill bundles of TV service, high-speed Internet access and cheap, all-you-can-eat VoIP.
In his book, he makes a number of the standard cable-news moves: he rages, he oversimplifies, he invents social categories so that he can vilify them.
These include the increasingly popular 3.5mm pass-through jack (so friends can plug in and share your music), a collapsible design, a detachable part-coiled cable and in-line remote.
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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Those include in-game access to the All-22 "eye in the sky" video so you can do your own Madden-style telestration, and a fixed fan-chosen camera, sideline or cable skycam view for those that need to feel like they're playing a video game.
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The Z-Base systems can be programmed to respond to most remote controls, so a TV remote...or cable box remote...or satellite receiver remote...can control volume, mute, power and input functions.
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