You're paying too much for your cable boxes. If you're like the average American household, you've likely got two boxes, which you rent from your television provider for close to $200 a year. That's a ...
[Peter]’s folks’ cable company is terrible – such a surprise for a cable TV provider – and the digital part of their cable subscription will only work with the company’s cable boxes. The cable company ...
The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to unlock the cable-box market. The details will be worked out in the coming months, but basically this means that you'll no longer have to rent ...
An innocent little cable box can suck up more electricity than your actual TV. The most galling part though? Up to two-thirds of its power-hogging actually happens in “idle” mode, when you’re not even ...
Cord-cutting has become so popular that some small cable companies are joining in, trading their own set-top boxes for streaming TV service. This week, a video delivery company called MobiTV announced ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charter's Spectrum Cable has announced changes for the way its customers can access video content going forward — both the shows ...
Commentary: A proposal by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler calls for cable companies like Comcast to "unlock the set-top box." Unlocking isn't enough. The box should die, once ...
TiVo came out with a bunch of new cable boxes last night, including the top-of-line, $600 Roamio. The Verge's Nilay Patel reviewed the Roamio, and he loves it. He calls it "the ultimate cable box." ...
One of the least glamorous realities of the American cable industry is a relic invented in 1948: the cable box. The box has become a fixture in the American household, not least because it is ...
Someday, we'll see cable boxes as relics, reminders of a bygone age when funneling movies and shows from one place to another was so much more complicated---and expensive---than it had to be. But ...