With great fanfare, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Thomas Wheeler is calling for sweeping changes to the way cable television set-top boxes work. In an essay published Jan. 27 by Re/Code, ...

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 ...

Spectrum, late last year, announced plans to phase out traditional cable boxes in favor of a streaming device. And while Comcast isn’t quite ready to abandon its set top box, it is offering that same ...

Broadcom Debuts Industry's First Digital Cable Set-Top Box System-on-a-Chip (SOC) With HD AVC/VC-1 Decoding, Channel Bonding and Downloadable Security Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global ...

The clunky old cable box doesn’t make sense anymore. Big, ugly, and heavy, they seem to have about as much place working with a modern TV as a DVD player. Cable companies are trying to catch up with ...

OK, so right now I'm using Comcast, but there is fiber that has been deployed in my neighborhood that should be faster and cheaper. I'm paying WAY too much a month. The only issue is that the fiber ...

Apple has been granted a patent (number US 11800168 B2) for a “generic streaming media device configured as a set-top box.” The tech giant may be eyeing a future Apple TV set-top box that would ...

CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its 1 st quarter 2013 (1Q13) Set-Top Boxes and Pay TV Subscribers market share and forecast report, ...

hese cable STB solutions feature the industry's first integrated high performance DVB-C cable tuner developed in 65 nanometer (nm) technology, and with integrated advanced security and sophisticated ...

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New York (CNN) — The clunky old cable box doesn’t make sense anymore. Big, ugly, and heavy, they seem to have about as much place working with a modern TV as a DVD player. Cable companies are trying ...