Digital cable offers customers far more channels to watch than standard cable--typically in the hundreds-- and gives them an interactive on-screen program schedule.
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.
The Vybe works with any sound source such as a gaming console, TV, computer, or mobile phone using a standard audio cable (included in the box).
There are several different kinds of technology, ranging from wired technologies that use standard Ethernet cable, power lines and home phone lines, as well as wireless technologies like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, that might be appropriate for some applications, but not all.
Streaming has officially made the jump from a lonely obsession carried out with a laptop and headphones to the standard alternative to cable TV, viewed on the living room TV like everything else.
Sony could overcome this hurdle by conveniently including that requisite HDMI-out cable in the box, but as it stands, you'll only get the standard micro-USB cable and charger dongle.
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Unfortunately, the sad tradition of not including an HDMI cable with high-definition, HDMI-enabled consoles continues here, with only a (standard def) RCA cable included in the box.
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All LEAF models come with a standard portable trickle charge cable.
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Britain is currently the only country in the world to enable viewers to receive digital television through three different technologies: standard terrestrial television, cable and satellite.
The FCC let it be known last week in a Memorandum Opinion and Order that a single standard wasn't actually required, as long as the IP interface on the cable box used an industry standard -- the Commission did bless the DLNA Premium Video Profile as a suitable example.
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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.
"This industry is turning a corner, " says Standard and Poor's Senior Cable and Satellite analyst Tuna Amobi.
Hong's first challenge was to round up enough affordable fare to fill airtime and the equipment and engineers to format it for digital cable, the new standard.
The cable network set the standard for high quality original programming and its mobile service, HBO to Go is proving to be a bulwark against people cutting the cable cord.
Prior to the updated Dual-Mode Standard release, Dual-Mode cable adaptors were limited to a TMDS clock rate of 165MHz providing support for display resolutions up to 1080p with 60Hz and 24 bits color.
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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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"They know Verizon's lurking around the corner, " says Tuna Amobi, Standard and Poor's Research senior cable and satellite analyst.
"The payments are staggered over the term, " says Tuna Amobi, Standard and Poor's Research senior cable and satellite analyst.
"I was surprised that Cablevision was that aggressive, " says Tuna Amobi, Standard and Poor's Research senior cable and satellite analyst.
The U.S. market may one day open up for Narayan if the cable industry settles on a standard for interactive TV, which regulators have said must happen by 2005.
Cell phones and CDPD cards can connect to standard notebook PCs for the cost of a cable, software and service.
Worse is the dilemma posed by Mr Gates, who wants the entire cable industry to accept the Microsoft standard for the set-top box.
Similar in size to a standard USB flash drive, Tiki's cable-free design allows it to plug directly into your laptop's USB port for instantaneous setup.
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Only around half of the country's cable systems have been upgraded to a standard high enough to carry all these services, and they are only just being rolled out, so subscriber numbers are still small.
Pairing the n9 with four Niveus Digital Cable Receivers, an external, dual CableCARD tuner device, allows cable subscribers to simultaneously view and record eight standard definition or HD programs.
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Both are wheeled carts that attach to a cable and have mounts for various cameras, including standard tripod mounts for shuttling DSLRs through the air.
Evidently two years wasn't long enough to find an acceptable industry standard stack to deliver video over IP, so TiVo and the cable industry requested an extension.
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Among several refinements to improve interoperability, the updated standard enables a higher data rate for DisplayPort-to-HDMI cable adaptors, providing support for HDMI 1.4 display resolutions such as 1080p 3D at 60Hz, and Ultra HD (4K x 2K) up to 30Hz frame rate, as well as 1080p with deep color.
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They believe cable TV, home security systems, and jet-skis are standard household necessities.
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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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