And in the U.S., TV cable channel watching is up 1% from a year ago.
Planar is doing its part by offering both TV-tuner and S-Video inputs, allowing the monitors to accept input from a TV cable or from a DVD player.
Also, this past year has witnessed the much publicised arrival of a US version of the British TV series Queer as Folk on a major pay TV cable network.
After amassing a fortune from his property portfolio in the 1970s, he diversified his interests by setting up a TV cable company, Telemilano, and buying two other cable channels in an effort to break the national TV monopoly in Italy.
The big idea here is to offer packages that bundle together cable TV, cable Internet, VoIP, and wireless services and offer them to subscribers at a price that would be less than signing up for each service individually.
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).
HDHomeRun connects to your existing TV antenna or cable TV outlet, and to your router via Ethernet.
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Several powerful members of Congress have expressed a different view: that it doesn't matter satellite TV competes with cable TV or other media, a monopoly in satellite TV is to be avoided.
Hit TV and cable properties help the media company trump the dismal advertising market.
It's the "Zero TV" crowd, the growing ranks of viewers watching TV without cable, satellite or antennas.
By the way, about progressive scan technology and your favorite shows you are watching on TV, cable and satellite.
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To win, Google TV needs great hybrids of both cable TV and Internet, like search across all media, and potentially great audio.
According to Nielsen, the increase in TV advertising spending tracks the amount of live TV sports content available on TV and cable.
Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Price, chairman of the committee, said on my TV One Cable Network show, "Washington Watch, " that everything should be on the table.
CNN: Politicians should put what's right ahead of winning votes
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?
When it comes to mediums, Spanish language network TV and cable television registered the biggest gains, up 24% and 13%, respectively, for the first half of the year.
Leading the change have been a series of successful female broadcast journalists over the years from Barbara Walters to Katie Couric who have established a trust within their viewership that has kept viewers watching basic TV and cable networks.
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Yeah, we know that most of you probably won't be affected by this either way, since the Broadcast Flag only governs digital over-the-air broadcasts and the vast majority of Americans homes get their TV via cable or satellite (which have copy control mechanisms of their own), but the Broadcast Flag establishes a very dangerous precedent.
Broadcast and cable TV should see sizable rebounds with ad spending up 15% at broadcast TV stations and up 9% at cable networks.
And naturally, users receive all the unencrypted digital cable TV (Clear QAM) channels offered by their cable provider.
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Launched in 2007, Google TV Ads is an online platform that lets marketers buy national cable TV ads.
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Its listed subsidiary Globo Cabo, Brazil's largest cable TV provider, has laid 15, 000 miles of coaxial cable past almost 5 million homes.
When the Blackhawks beat the Vancouver Canucks in the sixth game of their last playoff series, the game was seen on cable TV by 273, 000 households, the Blackhawks' highest cable audience ratings ever.
In addition, satellite TV providers like DirecTV and Dish Network continue to lag the cable TV companies in their ability to offset program cost increases by selling their customers increasingly faster broadband services, per The Wall Street Journal.
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The U.S. TV advertising market is showing improvements not just for broadcasters but for cable TV networks as well.
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Lee's decision to follow up his Oscar win with a TV project was seen as a sign of the growing strength of cable TV.
SiloconDust let us kown that it would be the first to certify a live TV tuner as a DLNA Digital Media Server, easily enabling premium cable TV to more devices with its existing HDHomeRun Prime network CableCARD tuner.
As a British expat living abroad (Moscow), will I be able to stream BBC or other British TV to Moscow by the internet and so escape the banal and costly cable TV available here?
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