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 NEW YORK (AP) - In the world of cable television, the real excitement these days has more to do with what comes over the cable lines than what shows are on the schedule.
Rolling out high-tech offerings like digital phone, high-speed Internet and video recorders is where the real money is being made. Now, the cable guys are racing to add even more fancy services in hopes of keeping customers from switching to satellite or the emerging video services being offered by phone companies.
As they gear up for their annual convention this weekend in Atlanta, big cable companies like Comcast Corp., Time Warner Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp. are taking a hard look at ramping up new products like video-on-demand, high-definition channels and next-generation video recorders that run off a network instead of a hard drive contained in the set-top box.
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