It allows you to stream video from other video sources to your TV.

An Oakland, Calif., family knew they had to trim monthly expenses. So they took a novel, Internet-savvy approach to cutting costs while still watching their favorite programs.

Editor's note: This is part of a series of stories about the recession's effect on the tech industry. A year before the U.S. economic crisis came to a head, Debra James of Oakland said she saw the writing on the wall and decided to trim the household budget. Topping the list were things like satellite television.

When standard TV programming first appeared many decades ago the people who were responsible for the programming did their best to put on the best shows with what they had to work with and considering the technology of the time they did a real bang up job.

The quality of the programming is as high as it gets and the price on it is also very reasonable.

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back" Not long ago, the competition between Cable and Satellite Television providers was a bit one-sided in Cable’s favor.

"When your dad is mad and asks you, “Do I look stupid?” Don’t answer him" Mobile Dish is a satellite service that Dish Network now offers for mobile vehicles that does one thing that satellite TV services could never do before for the traveler.

In the latest in a growing list of retransmission-consent disputes for Dish Network, the satellite provider Thursday dropped TV stations owned by Fisher Communications in seven Northwest markets, including a Univision affiliate in Seattle.

It is really tough sometimes being a parent with a television. You know your kids are going to spend a good portion of each day watching the TV and it is impossible for you to be there watching over their little shoulders the whole time.

Sky's research and development team has successfully demonstrated 3D TV to an industry audience at the broadcaster's West London HQ. The content was delivered using Sky's existing digital satellite platform with playback directly from a Sky+ HD set-top box on a Hyundai '3D Ready' TV.