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A cable is most often two or more wires running side by side and bonded, twisted or braided together to form a single assembly, but can also refer to a heavy strong rope. In mechanics cables, otherwise known as wire ropes, are used for lifting, hauling and towing or conveying force through tension. In electrical engineering cables are used to carry electric currents. An optical cable contains one or more optical fibers in a protective jacket that supports the fibers.
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Watch It Button Will Revolutionize How You Watch Movies

Plexus Entertainment has looked at the Internet and has said, "If there was only a way people could read a review or watch a trailer for a movie and then click a simple button to be notified when and where that movie becomes available on ...

12 New Multimedia Apps For The Updated Xbox 360 Dashboard

I just got the big list of all new apps this week on the Xbox 360 dashboard. While YouTube might be one of the more interesting for many, I found the list to be both diverse in content (some aren't about video) and location. For ...

Wireless Home Digital Interface Product Roundup

Unlike, well, pretty much everyone, I have had a WHDI device in my house for much of the year. What is it? WHDI is wireless HD video streaming and it is brilliant. Now I've been in contact with the Wireless Home Digital Interface people for ...

HBO GO Another Maverick Success Story In Streaming

Some people may view the mobile and online app HBO GO as a good idea with limited appeal, which is fair, since not everyone can use it, even those who currently subscribe to HBO.  Some wish they could buy the app without needing a cable ...

Expect Usage-Based Billing On Web From Cable Providers Soon

I actually wondered if this was something cable providers were chewing on in regards to the increased popularity of Netflix and Hulu.  Bloomberg reports that companies like Time Warner Cable, Inc, are considering charging customers for the amount of data they consume.  The extra charges ...

Time Warner Cable Android Tablet App Disappoints, Will Not Stream Content

Time Warner Cable has announced that their TWCTV app is coming to Android Tablets but it won't allow you to watch TV, only to do some things like control your DVR and act as a remote. That's sort of a let down, really. The iPad ...

Netflix To Take A Loss In 2012, Which Should Be Good For Consumers

Wow, when it rains, it pours. After showing some seriously strong growth for years, Netflix, faltered with some bad business choices. They chased off hundreds of thousands of loyal customers, offered a flat, self-serving apology and lost a major chunk of their content. The culmination ...

Starz After Netflix To Become TV Everywhere Option

As we all know by now, Starz and Netflix fell out and contract negotiations halted without a deal. Now, we know why as Starz has announced that they are working on their own TV everywhere authenticated product that will stream their content to any connected ...

Sony Cutting The Cable For You? Aiming For A Sony Online TV Service?

Remember when I was writing about Sony the other day, well really it was about Google TV and stuff, but I mentioned that Howard Stringer, the Sony CEO, was talking about big R&D in a new TV. Well, some speculation has launched into what that ...

YouTube Looking To Jump From 200,000 To 7 Million YouTube Advertisers

YouTube has 200,000 advertisers per quarter, but with the new original channels beginning in January of next year, they're looking to attract 6 or 7 million YouTube advertisers as they launch around 100 total in 2012.  According to this Beet.TV interview with Lucas Watson, YouTube's ...

Boxee Getting Into TV Tuning With Boxee Live TV Tuner

Boxee is breaking the mold it set for itself and will now begin to include a new Boxee Live TV Tuner according to GigaOm who got an unreleased version of the Boxee 1.5 update which will be released soon.

TumTiki Combines Hulu & Amazon Content to Become Latest Online TV Distributor

The availability of, well, everything, gets closer and closer it seems every week.  TumTiki, a creation of cable provider Frontier Communications, will combine content available from Hulu, Amazon, and others to provide a library of 700,000 movies and TV shows.  It will act as curator ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - YouTube Ad Edition

This week was overloaded with YouTube-related news. The video service is now fully integrated into Google Plus, their skippable TrueView ads now make up 50% of all the ads on the site and serve up 18 years of video ads per day, and the majority ...

Charter Creating Online Video Directory Of Content From Hulu, Netflix, & Amazon

Here's an interesting tidbit I came across today. Charter Communications is encouraging its users to watch online video by creating a new searchable directory of online video content. Hopefully, this doesn't mean that they will later then charge for video separately, you know the old ...

YouTube Killed TV, Except That It Didn't... Yet

There's a very cool infographic making the rounds called YouTube Killed TV. It's filled with excellent graphical representations of some really impressive--and in some cases, mind boggling--statistics about the video sharing site. The only problem I have with it, of course, is the exaggerated claim ...