Cable TV Technology

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This paper looks at one particular piece of the changing technology puzzle the ways in which cable television has become increasingly sophisticated through the incorporation of a number of different types of technology. Specifically, this paper focuses on the efforts of Comcast to become the nation's leading cable television outlet, in part through its acquisition last year of the telephone company AT&T.

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"While most of us probably still think of cable and telephone service as being distinct from each other, in fact over the past decade they have become more and similar to each other as entertainment and information services like cable television have come to rely more and more heavily on the transmission capabilities of phone lines and as phone companies have become more and more diverse in the technological capabilities that they have to offer."

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