The second innovation was the development of multi-core processors and, equally important, the rise of programming for massively parallel processors.

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With the NFL demanding as much as 70% increase in fee, the rise in sports programming costs becomes inevitable.

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The bear case is that margins will fall as programming costs rise, and as cable operators increasingly subsidize video with their higher-margin broadband business.

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