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 ...

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 ...

When he introduced the latest version of Apple TV, CEO Tim Cook said “The future of TV is apps.” I think the cable box of tomorrow should be an app, too. If you want the breadth of programming, ease ...

[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 ...

Cable TV customers are fond of complaining about their ever-rising monthly bills, which now average almost $100. Although the main factor has been the growing sums of cash the cable operators have to ...

You may soon have more options for a cable box than renting one from your cable company. The Federal Communications Commission has a plan to make cable companies provide apps that could be used on ...

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 ...

The cable service is trying to get ahead of the FCC's proposed tougher set-top box rules with a plan to get its Xfinity TV services on Samsung smart TVs and Roku boxes. Sometimes, you almost want to ...

It's hard to get excited about a cable box. It's basically a boring oblong you put on a shelf near your TV and never think of again unless your cable service goes out. But it's at the center of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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." ...