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 ...

NEW YORK --Comcast says later this year you won't need a cable box to watch cable as the company follows its rivals in offering TV-watching apps. The announcement has interesting timing. It comes as ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

It wasn't long ago when it seemed as if bulky cable boxes might be going the way of TV antennas. The federal government was pressuring cable companies to open up their near-monopoly on boxes to more ...

[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 companies originally pledged to give us free apps to watch TV without having to pay for cable boxes. We’re still waiting. Last June, Big Cable made an appealing offer for viewers and regulators.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Tali Arbel, The Associated Press Not that long ago, the clunky cable box looked like it was on its way out. The federal government was pressuring cable ...

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 ...