New services like digital cable, high-definition TV, video-on-demand, and digital video recorders are proving extremely popular with customers.

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Don't confuse high-definition TV with digital cable or digital satellite systems.

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Beginning this fall in the US and coming this holiday season to the UK, NOOK Video will offer customers the opportunity to shop an extensive and diverse digital collection of standard and high-definition movies and TV shows available for streaming and download.

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Customers will use the platform to receive regular TV programs as well as advanced television services including standard- and high-definition programs, interactive TV, digital video recording and video on demand.

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Xbox 360 is also home to the best and broadest games as well as the largest on-demand library of music, standard- and high-definition movies, TV shows and digital games, all in one place.

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For added versatility, when the HDMI CEC cradle is connected to a high-definition Samsung digital television, end users can navigate the TL34HD's menu using their TV's remote control.

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Currently, high-definition TV shows and movies from iTunes are offered in 720P and Dolby Digital surround sound.

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Extremely late, German consumers are being introduced to digital video recorders, high-definition pictures and video-on-demand areas in which pay-TV companies have a big advantage.

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The company has long struggled with what form that hub device should take and has settled on a system that emphasizes being a source for low-cost (or free) High Definition content that just isn't readily available from Digital Cable or traditional Satellite TV systems.

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