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 ...

The cable box appears to be going the way of the VCR. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Cable set-top boxes traditionally have been outside the realm of integrators' work, mainly sold or leased through service providers. But as Motorola and Cisco's Scientific-Atlanta division each add ...

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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 ...

Michael Arden, principal analyst of residential entertainment technologies at ABI Research, says there are three possible futures for the set-top box. The third possibility is that manufacturers will ...

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 ...