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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Q. My cable company finally scrambled all the channels so they can only be received with a cable box. Can I at least purchase these boxes anywhere? A. This e-mail conveniently arrived on the day ...

In the middle of the night, when most Americans are sound asleep, their lights and appliances off, a power hog is wide awake and running at nearly full throttle: the boxes that operate their cable or ...

About a year ago, I had enough. I was so sick of putting up with Comcast’s ridiculous rates for terrible service that I decided to cancel everything but the Internet. Truth be told, I kept basic cable ...

One of the least glamorous realities of the American cable industry is a relic invented in 1948: the cable box. The box has become a fixture in the American household, not least because it is ...

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 ...