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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The set-top box, a necessary appendage for millions of cable television customers for decades, is moving toward extinction. A leading television manufacturer, Sony Electronics Inc., ...

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 ...

NEW YORK -- AOL Time Warner Inc., the largest media and Internet company, is talking to several cable companies to put America Online's interactive-television service on digital set-top boxes, AOLTV ...

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Markey called for a new system that would require cable providers to install a gateway device in all homes by the end of 2012 that would allow them to leverage video ...