Sentences with phrase «cable tv does»

The other downside was that the cable TV doesn't seem to work well in the morning; signal was too intermittent and it disrupts viewing pleasure.

Not exact matches

The cable giant may be doing better than the rest of its competitors when it comes to hanging on to TV subscribers, and its Internet access business also provides plenty of cash flow from cord - cutters and streaming fans.

To do so, however, users must buy a USB - C extension cable and an external stand on which they can rest the Switch on during TV play.

Crabill says they fall into three categories: disgruntled 35 - 45 year olds (like me) who see cable as a fundamental rip - off and now refuse to pay for it; low - income or penny pinching folks who decide they can't afford $ 100 cable bills; millennials who like TV, but don't understand why people would sign up for a cable contract in the first place.

Slaight told him cable giant Rogers had been sniffing around a six - year - old multi-platform media company called GlassBox TV, which was doing digital publishing, video - on - demand and specialty TV.

Says Purdy, «We've been doing a number of things to get our hybrid fibre and cable system to a level where, both on broadband and on TV, we have a superior product in market.»

A forced split from TV bundles may be the final push the channel needs to do a direct offering, free from any sort of cable subscription.

This year, people who only have streaming services like Roku or Amazon Fire TV don't have to beg friends and family to share their cable login.

But IPTV doesn't have to supplant cable to dampen subscription rates and up the TV ante.

Corus — an integrated media company with specialty TV channels of its own, including the W Network, YTV and Treehouse — was spun out of the Shaw cable business back in 1999, when the Shaws didn't think so - called convergence strategies made much sense.

As a «cord - cutter» - someone who doesn't have cable TV - I'm not looking for a similarly priced alternative to cable TV.

This required us to dial back our expenses slightly - things like less eating out for dinners, packing my lunch for work more often, and cutting the cord on cable TV (we still don't miss it today).

Large cable providers like Time Warner, meanwhile, have the potential to make up for some of their cord - cutting losses on the TV side through higher fees for their Internet service - provider business, since those who stream Netflix and other services tend to use up a lot more data by doing so.

«Netflix isn't going to demand a year option while they give you $ 20K and tell you to make a sizzle reel that they expect you to spend $ 60K putting together, the way too many cable networks do,» veteran TV producer David Lyle told The Hollywood Reporter recently.

Customers don't want to buy 500 channels anymore and only watch 12, says Wilderotter, weighing in on the unbundling of cable TV.

The cable channel once known for its boxing and old movies did more than any other to usher in the era of prestige TV.

The idea here, as it was when the FCC first voted to «open up» the set - top box in February, is to make it so you don't have to lease a cable box from a cable provider to watch cable TV programming.

DirecTV Now and several other Internet streaming services like Google's (googl) YouTube TV and Dish Network's (dish) Sling, seek to bring the experience of traditional cable TV to customers who don't want the expense or the hassles of the usual cable set up, with all the in - home wiring and set top boxes.

On Wednesday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler proposed a new technology mandate that would require satellite and cable TV providers to disaggregate or separate their services so that a few companies could repackage them as their own without negotiating for content rights like everybody else in the market does today.

As a result, Netflix is in effect a competitor to those companies» on - demand cable TV services, which charge on a pay - per - view basis rather than offering a flat monthly fee like Netflix does.

It would begin with an e-newsletter promoting the businesses and directing the reader to the directory for future use and even possibly doing interviews on local cable tv.

After years of talks and negotiations with partners — including major sports leagues and TV providers — Rogers has crafted the streaming option carefully to try to ensure that it does not cannibalize the still - lucrative cable TV business.

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NEW YORK (AP)-- Dish Network is offering a new «skinny» bundle of about 50 cable channels that doesn't include ESPN and some other sports channels, giving people who don't care about sports a way to save money on TV without joining the ranks of «cord cutters.»

I'm old, don't have cable tv and I'm very skeptical to anything that anyone says or does.

We really have a lean and tight budget (no cell phones, no cable TV, no eating out, no movies, etc), but there are still so many areas we could cut back, and we struggle with what is the right thing to do.

Videocassettes do not come into the home like cable TV.

I am not really «poor» but I don't have $ 1497 to spend on publishing a book (or anything else for that matter... I don't own a cell phone, pay for cable TV, or go out to eat).

If cable TV and the rich variety of fare available through video - discs cause people to stay home more, and sit more in front of their TV screens, the church will find it necessary to do more than review and interpret media experience.

I have suggested some of the ways this can be done: increasing the number of TV networks to six or even 12; diversifying the sources of production; increasing support of public broadcasting and community - supported stations; the use of telephone call - ins; follow - up programs with discussions; community - media projects; more use of cable, videocassettes and other less «mass» forms of the technology.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

@arsenal207 what does that have to do with anything wether or not fans go to the Emirates, I do but not often, but most of Arsenal supporters around the world don't have the privileged that we have in UK, I have read here in the past Arsenal supporters walking or traveling tens of miles to their nearest cafe to watch arsenal match on TV they walked in the midday sun in places like Central Africa, so are you suggesting they are not true supporters and have no right to comment??? And what of those supporters who pay shi!t loads of cable fees to watch their team, I say they are.

Thanks to Twitter, people didn't need cable TV to meet the Retrievers during their biggest moment.

Lovely......... Some of us don't have the Luxury of going to see the game... being in countries outside London... so the game is been watched on TV (not free tho... cable subscriptions, pub fees etc)

I want to break my iPhone, my TV, my cable box, I've told my kids to leave the room... Are you F *** ing serious??? Swansea just did a double on us and this is the second time they beat us AT HOME.

How to stream Thorns games if you don't subscribe to cable TV (Lifetime)?

There are two sets of new fans in the USA; it has to do with the USA doing well in World Cup and CABLE TV.

The TV channel selection was good (we don't have cable, so it was great for us).

And since they don't watch much TV (we don't have cable), they only kind of know who those licensed characters are.

We don't watch commercial television and we don't have cable TV - and I tell them why.

As far as tv shows, I only let my kids watch PBS (we don't have cable and I refuse to pay for it so PBS is all there is in this house!)

We don't have cable and that is one of the biggest things I think people can do, is keeping their children away from the crappy misogynistic TV out there.

If we didn't have Drama Mom, we couldn't confidently threaten our significant others with canceling the cable TV, knowing we would never be wanting for adequate popcorn - popping entertainment with this woman in our lives.

Like the Tiger Mother, this Chicken Mama does not allow TV (on week nights), we do not subscribe to cable television nor do we own video games.

I didn't have cable TV when my kids were born, which still didn't keep me from hearing about the amazing «My Baby Can Read Program» and its infomercial from lots of well - meaning people.

I have the TV going all day but we don't have cable.

I agree that cutting out tv and Internet is a good step for a happy sex life as well as happy family life (we don't have cable or ever watch tv).

Do you have an Apple TV, Roku player, cable box and / or a DVD player?

We do try to limit the amount of TV they watch, and there are certain cartoons they are not allowed to view whenever we do go someplace that has cable, but I don't feel like turning on the TV from time to time is a bad thing.