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.
Here's the scoop: CableCard is literally a card that you pop into the back of your TV set so that you can get rid of your digital cable box and plug that coax directly into your digital TV (it's sort of like how you can use analog cable on a cable-ready analog TV without a cable box).
Set-top boxes allow cable-TV subscribers to surf the Internet from their sofas.
Just about everyone with a stake in TV has been eager to support the rise of the new technology -- cable operators, TV networks and media conglomerates have put money into TiVo, Replay or both -- NBC and Disney, for example, have investments in each.
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Higher ratings translate into more advertising revenue, even though Comcast gets two-thirds of its revenue as a cable-TV and Internet access provider.
The separation will enable TWC, the second-largest cable TV provider, to pursue acquisitions that were previously off-limits.
Even PLDT, which already operates a cable-TV system and an Internet service provider, is planning to offer cable Net access, "maybe before the end of 1999, " says Samson.
He initially considered creating a single-genre cable TV network but recognized that that concept faced significant competition from crime-related programming such as prime-time newsmagazines.
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.
Ivi tried to argue it was a cable-TV network for the purposes of these retransmission rights, because an exception to the Copyright Act gives cable operators the right to retransmit if they pay fees set by the Copyright Royalty Board, an arm of the Library of Congress.
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Previous info indicated the service would focus more heavily on movies than the back catalog of TV shows that is a part of Netflix Watch Instantly and Amazon Prime Instant Video, and Bloomberg reports Redbox will break with their models by paying its content providers per subscriber cable TV-style, instead of a flat rate decided up front.
While the upside is vast, Netflix must compete for this growing demographic with established cable and satellite operators that offer streaming and pay-TV services like Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Dish Network and DirecTV.
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Then a three-season reality TV stint on the cable network's Newlyweds, made her--and to a lesser degree her husband, Nick Lachey--household names.
Using data gleaned from public profiles on Facebook, Twitter, Miso and Get Glue- Trendrr is ranking the volume of buzz and social actions (check-ins, tweets, posts) for terms associated with TV shows- a top ten for cable and broadcast.
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The firm has purchased 200 patents and has embarked on some 15 lawsuits, including one major case against Comcast, Time-Warner and other major cable- and broadcast-TV companies in federal court in Delaware.
Analysts expect Televisa will begin offering wireless services to its fast-growing cable TV customers.
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"Netflix is starting to cannibalize cable-TV viewership and it could start cannibalizing advertising, too, " Pachter said.
One big problem: Sky Angel distributes its signals over the Internet instead of a conventional cable-TV system.
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That trend also could reinforce the perception that Netflix looms as a threat to the cable-TV industry.
Sky denied this, saying it had been supplying its sports channels to cable-TV companies since its inception.
Moreover, the incumbents face increased competition from new entrants, such as cable-TV companies, and this has hit profits.
The group has received funding from pay-TV providers Time Warner Cable Inc.
The phone can hook up to a 3-D TV with a cable to display media on the big screen.
Globo is also forging ahead on broadband Internet access through its listed subsidiary Globo Cabo, Brazil's largest cable-TV provider.
So Congress rewrote the telecom act in 1992 to ban companies affiliated with cable-TV operators from discriminating against rivals.
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How many people are watching HuffPost Live, the new-wave cable TV channel launched in August by the Huffington Post?
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Even if this new effort from Microsoft is a mediocre success, it will accelerate the trend towards cable TV cord-cutting.
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Selig wants to squeeze even more money out of the big boys -- from cable TV revenues, gate receipts and corporate box receipts.
Pivot could be the first of many "a la carte" broadband channels offered to subscribers weary of paying for whole tiers of cable-TV networks.
The Sixth Circuit, which is based in Cincinnati, rejected a similar case involving DirecTV challenging a Kentucky law that appeared to favor cable-TV companies.
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