cable-tv system

基本解释

In house ADSL, auto-telephone transferring system, and Cable TV.
宽带网和自动电话交换系统，卫星天线。
A cable modem connects a personal computer to a cable-TV system that offers online services.
电缆调制解调器把个人计算机和能够提供网长服务的有线电视连接起来。
But the iPad's likely inroads into the television business, where the entrenched cable-TV distribution system is lucrative for TV networks, look minimal for now.
但由于现有的有线电视发行体制对各电视网依然具有吸引力，目前iPad进军电视业务之路前途渺茫。

One big problem: Sky Angel distributes its signals over the Internet instead of a conventional cable-TV system.
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The majority held that by providing individual streams to consumers according to their specific commands, Aereo was less like a cable-TV system than a consumer streaming a TV show from a Slingbox in one room to a TV set in another.
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