The Trajectory of Television—Internet rebellion and hardware renaissance

Giant cable and satellite providers like Comcast, Time Warner, Dish, DirectTV, and Cox have long carried a lot of clout and gotten away with charging high prices for access to their service. Lately, customers can expect a bundled cable and Internet access package to cost on the order of $90-100 per month. As attitudes toward media access have shifted, these cable providers had to stop resting on their pokey cable boxes and inscrutable, difficult-to-use program guides and come up with some new services to offer their customers. - Casey Johnston

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