Even the non-neutral cable system increasingly makes use of the packet-switched architecture and Internet protocols.
In the case of television, the scarcity of spectrum, and the expense of building a cable system, have been additional justifications for regulating ownership.
She tried to sell a cable system in her home town of Centralia, Washington, but learned that without telling her, her husband had transferred the ownership to his four sons.
Satellite has been hampered both by costs a satellite system is still roughly twice as expensive as a cable system to a consumer and by its inability to broadcast the local programmes that consumers want, because of both technical and legal constraints.
Six telecommunications companies have formed a consortium to build a submarine cable system linking Malaysia, Singapore, India and Sri Lanka with the Middle East, which could boost data connectivity significantly in the region as operators expand their data offerings to boost earnings.
The transaction costs of getting carriage on a major cable system are radically higher than the transaction costs of providing video content directly to consumers via the Internet, meaning that niche content and services are at a systematic disadvantage on proprietary video systems.
It has a built-in filtered fan system for particularly hot days, and a heater which allows it to work in temperatures of around -4 degrees C (24 degrees F), plus a watertight cable system for a range of sources including HDMI, component, VGA, S-video, composite, and RF.
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Moreover, in the few areas of America where one cable company has built over a rival's existing system, where a telephone company has set up an experimental system to deliver television signals, or where there is an old, municipally owned cable system as well as a private one, competition has led to lower prices (see chart).
Mr Hindery recalls that when he was buying a cable system owned by Jack Kent Cooke, another colourful mogul, he was presented with a price based on subscriber numbers that had been heavily inflated by the inclusion of prisoners from a local jail who, though certainly in need of a distraction, were not in a position to subscribe.
Amos Hostetter graduated from Harvard Business School in 1961 and convinced his employer, Boston-based Cambridge Capital, to finance a small cable television system in rural New Jersey.
He built an innovative cable car system so that slum-dwellers in Caracas whose houses were built precariously on hillsides, could more easily access the centre of the capital.
Designed to be lightweight and cheap to produce, the robotic bicep upgrade uses a (mostly) aluminum frame, battery-powered DC motor, cable drive system, racket braking and thumbstick controller for movement, with a BeagleBone board supervising the electronics that pull it all together.
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At one point in the eighties, I owned over 10 percent of NYT, but I watched in frustration as management bartered away serious money for the aging Cowles magazine stable, invested in the teaching machine craze and divested a promising foothold in a cable TV system.
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.
One big problem: Sky Angel distributes its signals over the Internet instead of a conventional cable-TV system.
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San Francisco remains the only place on the planet with a true, manually operated cable-car system serving the public.
What HGTV has been able to do is to deliver its content via the Internet as opposed to a cable or satellite system.
The majority held that by providing individual streams to consumers according to their specific commands, Aereo was less like a cable-TV system than a consumer streaming a TV show from a Slingbox in one room to a TV set in another.
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But the fact is, we don't know what they're getting at, and while we don't appreciate this kind of vagueness, it's not too late for them to make the 360 a single switch-tripping light-up cable kind of system, otherwise totally wireless.
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Playcast, based in Israel and London, is a games-on-demand system for cable and IPTV operators.
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The strikers want this system extended to cable TV ads, which currently pay a flat rate.
In an analog system, all cameras need to be wired directly back to a central recording system using analog cable (typically RG-59 or RG-6 coaxial).
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In June, cable thieves disabled the signalling system near Woking in Surrey, causing massive disruption for around 80, 000 South West Trains passengers in the evening rush hour.
This updated DisplayPort Dual-Mode Standard version 1.1 enables full support of HDMI 1.4 video modes, and 1080p deep color, using a simple cable adaptor plugged into the system's DisplayPort output.
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In the most high-profile case yet, in June cable thieves disabled the signalling system near Woking in Surrey, causing massive disruption for around 80, 000 passengers in the evening rush hour.
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The system can determine why a cable TV box isn't working or why the Internet connection is down and fix the problem in minutes.
In the TV business, for instance, channels are increasingly making their shows available online only to paying subscribers to cable and satellite operators a system that could be undermined by pirate sites.
And compared with last year, when the cost to install wireless Ethernet was 10 to 15 percent more than installing a wired system using Category 5 copper cable, wired and wireless cost about the same today, said Murphy.
Consumers should check with their cable service provider to confirm compatibility with their system.
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