Apr 08
Monopoly? What monopoly? At least that’s one of the pillars of the 180-page document Comcast just filed with regulators in defense of its pending $45 billion purchase of Time Warner Cable
Apr 01
If you have cable, the Xbox One’s TV-controlling powers are a great feature
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Apr 01
Verizon’s latest DVR is less set-top box and more home media server: with six tuners and a 1TB hard drive, you can add a second DVR unit to record up to 12 channels at once and feed 10 TVs at any given time.
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Mar 17
New research by the Leichtman Research Group reveals the number of pay-TV subscribers decreased last year across all the major cable companies, among them being Comcast and Time Warner Cable, … Continue reading
Feb 26
Is Having Cable Ever Worth It?
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Dear Lifehacker,
I know you guys aren’t big fans of cable, but I’m about to get my internet hooked up and the company is offering me a TV package. I do like to watch plenty of TV and even some sports. Should I at least consider cable? I’m worried Netflix and Hulu won’t be enough.
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Feb 21
Notice your Netflix has had a hell of a time streaming in good quality lately? That’s because the companies that carry its traffic can’t seem to agree who’s supposed to shoulder the cost of passing it along, Ars Technica reports.
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Feb 20
The net neutrality fight is moving in new directions, and quickly. Today FCC Chair Tom Wheeler announced that the FCC would press forward with new "Open Internet" rules, undeterred by last month’s court decision striking down most of the old ones. Last week, Comcast and Time Warner Cable announced plans to merge. The merger would create the largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the nation, with five times the subscribers of its closest competitor. With only one or two broadband providers available in most parts of the country, prices may soar while the quality of services plummets. A lack of competition raises serious concerns that huge ISPs will be able to favor particular sites and services.
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Feb 18
Between the surprising affordability
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Feb 18
In case you needed another reason
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Feb 16
There are broad, sweeping implications
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