But the contradiction remains: a la carte cable or stand-alone services would save customers money, but would also vastly restrict what sort of quality programming would be available.
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Following Mr Cable on the stand, Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke told the inquiry people were put off going into politics because they did not want to open their private lives to scrutiny.
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Comcast also announced the creation of Comcast Entertainment Group (CEG), which will house Comcast's interest in the joint venture and will stand alongside Comcast Cable, which operates the company's traditional cable business.
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If the cable guys can continue to make it easier for average viewers to get their content where and when they want it (but through the cable portal), they could stand a chance yet.
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Bundling is coming to an end, though: Web services like Netflix, Hulu, iTunes and Amazon Instant Video now carry enough programming that they can stand in for a cable subscription at a small fraction of the cost.
With a VESA mount, you can hang it in your bedroom and use Windows Media Center to pull in content from your main PC or even plug in a digital cable tuner and use it as a stand-alone entertainment system.
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Consider stand-up acts like the Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White, both of whom got their break on the Blue Collar Comedy tour and a subsequent series on the Viacom-owned Comedy Central channel.
Consider stand-up acts like the Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White, both of whom got their break on the Blue Collar Comedy tour and a subsequent series on the Viacom (nyse: VIA.B - news - people )-owned Comedy Central channel.
Meanwhile, over the past few years, successful clubs ie, those whose money baseball wants to give away have stopped being stand-alone teams and turned themselves into the heart of cable-television networks.
On April 23rd Mr. Bob Beckel in his remark on the Fox Cable News program, The Five, criticized the silent Moslems who do not stand up and oppose terrorism.
For the last 20 years, Garofalo, who made millions for her work in stand-up and in such films as Reality Bites, The Cable Guy and 200 Cigarettes, over the past twenty years, has likely been filing her taxes as single.
Mr Cable called for an amendment to legislation currently before Parliament to force such peers and MPs to stand down from Parliament.
And while -- while you might not always know it from watching the cable news shows, or listening to folks on the radio, I think it's clear that we stand at one of those moments.
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If Vonage did manage to survive Verizon s legal attacks, it would still be in a difficult position as a small, stand-alone VoIP provider in a market full of telephony giants that offer bundled telephone, VoIP and cable packages.
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