Press on Your Side: $500 cable bill highlights importance of renter's insurance

Source: Asbury Park Press

Long Branch resident Warren West saw his belongings go up in flames when his Brighton Avenue apartment  along with part of the block  burned in February. ÂEverything I ever had, pretty much, said West, 36, describing the scope of the loss. ÂThe only t ...
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Should Cable Boxes Be Put to Sleep?

Source: Electronic House

Pity the poor cable box. It’s a constant family room reminder of multichannel monopolies and oppressive bills. We love to loathe it for delivering hundreds of channels with nothing on, and yet many of us can’t live without it. Legions of others have cut ...
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Inventor of Wireless Remote Dies: Clunky Technology Lives On

Source: The New York Times

May 23, 2012, 1:30 pm By DAVID CARR When I read Margilit Fox’s gorgeous obituary of Eugene Polley, the creator of the wireless television remote, I was struck by the vision he displayed when he invented the so-called Flash-Matic back in 195 ...
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Can Motorola’s cloud-based DVR kick-start TV Everywhere?

Source: paidContent.org

Motorola Mobility says it will soon begin trials on a new cloud-based digital video recorder system that, at least on paper, has the potential to kick-start the pay TV industry’s ambitious yet cumbersome TV Everywhe ...
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Eugene Polley, co-creator of the wireless TV remote, passes away aged 96

Source: Engadget

TV Remote Control Inventor Eugene Polley, 1915-2012 CHICAGO, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Best known as the inventor of the first wireless remote control for television, Eugene J. Polley started hi ...
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EADS North America UH-72A Lakota fleet hits 100,000 flight hour milestone

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(pressebox) Herndon, Va. and Huntsville, Ala., 22.05.2012 - The U.S. Army's fleet of 219 UH-72A Lakota helicopters surpassed the 100,000 flight hour milestone during operations on May 10. The 100,000 flight hour aircra ...
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U.S. Cable Television Ratings for the Week Ended May 20

Source: Bloomberg.com

RANK PROGRAM NAME NET RATING =============================================================== 1 NBA PLAYOFFS- ROUND 2 L (LA LAKERS/OKLAH TNT 4.6 2 NBA PLAYOFFS-CONF SEMIS L (OKLAHOMA CITY ESPN 4.6 3 NBA PLAYOFFS- ROUND 2 L (LA LAKERS/OKLAH TNT ...
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Media Decoder Blog: Time Warner Cable Head Sides With TV Networks Over Ad-Erasing Technology

Source: The New York Times

BOSTON — The head of one of the country’s biggest cable companies voiced his disapproval of the Dish Network’s ad-erasing technology on Monday, aligning himself with television networks that are trying to squash the technology, called Auto H ...
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Comcast advances cable TV box with X1

Source: Boston Herald

Comcast launched a “cloud-enabled” set-top box designed to transforming cable TV into an “integrated entertainment experience. The company unveiled the new X1 platform for Xfinity TV today at the Cable Show, an industr ...
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