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WASHINGTON — Half of the 21 million Americans who do not have cable or satellite TV will probably continue to use rabbit ears after the switch to digital TV, according to a new study. About 43% ...
Many homes now have one or more basic cable boxes as well as add-on DVRs, or digital video recorders, which use 40 percent more power than the set-top box.
Bay State channel-surfers who buy, rent or lease a cable box from their television provider could soon see a change on their bills: state tax collectors confirmed recently that those transactions a… ...
People with digital cable will be able to receive additional high-definition channels, and also download free movies and shows that can be watched anytime on their TV -- known as video on demand ...
Cable TV systems could also carry Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) using DOCSIS. Though not expected to happen, that along with a conversion from DOCSIS to IPTV is possible in the future.
American TV is digital these days, so even if you pick it up over an antenna, you're still streaming digital data, just not over the internet. All modern TVs include ATSC tuners for receiving over ...
Merrill Lynch expects the rollout of new digital cable TV boxes in U.S. homes for most cable operators to slow this quarter, and next year, as the share of households with access to digital cable ...
You can switch to any channel on your cable, since the box handles it whether its analog or digital, it then outputs it on channel 3 for viewing on your TV, computer, or whatever.<br><br>If you ...
Revenue Commissioner Geoffrey Snyder signed a directive Friday, June 20 declaring that the sale or rental of any cable box device that "can do more than connect a cable system to a TV broadcast ...
The Pace 500, pictured above, was a new design developed for Time Warner Cable digital systems. It incorporates single-chip archietecture and is, according to the manufacturers, the world's ...
In 1996, U.S. Congress OK’d the distribution of an additional broadcast channel to all broadcast TV stations so that they could start a digital broadcast channel while continuing their analog ...