A followup to this article has been published. In “Comcast: Cable Modem Rentals Contribute More Than Olympics” I left Comcast ’s set-top box rentals out of my analysis because I didn’t think customers ...

LOS ANGELES - Most of us spend hundreds of dollars to rent our cable set-top boxes from the likes of Comcast, Time Warner and Verizon. What if we could bypass the rental fee, buy our own box and save ...

The ban hammer fell on July 1, 2007. That's the date the FCC set for its "integration ban" to prevent cable TV operators from deploying set-top boxes with integrated decryption and security systems.

We know that you'd like nothing better than to get rid of that set-top box sitting on your DVD player. It's ugly, it's clunky, and it has its own remote. Extra cables snake about the back of your ...

Operators move closer to offering service allowing consumers to simply plug a card into a device to get cable TV service. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone ...

Charter’s Spectrum Cable has announced changes for the way its customers can access video content going forward — both the shows they watch on television and the shows they stream. Currently, Spectrum ...

You probably keep hearing about CableCARD technology (also called "Digital Cable Ready") - or perhaps you've never heard of it. In either case, there's good news for you as a consumer. After fighting ...