Subscribers to multichannel television, who may get it from a cable, satellite or telecoms firm, pay for "bundles" of channels, whether they watch them all or not. They are also shown advertisements.

对于通过有线，卫星或电信公司收看多个电视台的订购者来说，不管他们会不会全看，他们都已捆绑缴费，其中也包括广告在内。

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The rise of multichannel television has complicated matters.

然而，多频道电视机的出现使问题复杂化了。

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At the moment, real-time multichannel television is too bandwidth-intensive to be provided by third parties across the Internet.

所以此刻的实时多重电视频道服务已经被众多商家所充斥，而再也没有一点空间让第三者通过网络有所染指。

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It's equally odd that the government should think it important to provide multichannel television to people who aren't interested in it.

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In the 1980s multichannel television began to spread around the world.

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While cable was laboriously and expensively digging up Britain street by street, Sky was able to bring multichannel television to anyone, anywhere by means of a little dish and a cheap decoder.

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