We’re not sure why [Roteno] prefers to have his TV and cable boxes not face him when he’s sitting on the couch, but to each their own.You may already see many problems with this setup ...

The set-top box may find living rooms increasingly crowded with other video-delivery devices, but as next week’s annual industry confab the Cable Show will make clear, it’s not going away ...

A set-top cable box with a digital recorder can consume as much as 35 watts of power, costing about $8 a month for a typical Southern California consumer.

Once, all you needed to get every available TV channel was an antenna. Then came cable, and except for premium channels, all you usually had to do was run a wire from the set to the wall. Over ...

The pay TV industry has been lobbying furiously to stop the cable box proposal, and it’s not hard to see why. A Senate study found that about 99% of pay TV customers rent their boxes, spending ...

Cable TV customers are fond of complaining about their ever-rising monthly bills, which now average almost $100. Editorial: Thinking outside the cable box - Los Angeles Times ...

Cable-box free TV galore. The cable lobby is right to point out that there are plenty of box-free TV apps available. Like Comcast’s Stream, they’re just not really aimed at the 94 million ...

New cable TV boxes have access to more than 100 streaming apps for "simplified" viewing experience. To slow consumers' cord-cutting in favor of streaming services, Spectrum cable has launched the ...

Just about every cable and satellite service has a mobile app, but almost all require you to have the box in your house when you watch TV in the living room, especially if you want to record anything.

Of all the issues with cable TV, the mandatory set-top box might be the biggest annoyance. These boxes tend to be eyesores, and flipping through hundreds of channels—or memorizing channel ...

— -- Question: Comcast is converting my cable TV to all-digital. They say I'll need to get a cable box, but what if I only want to watch the local stations? Answer: Like many other cable ...

Here’s something you might not know about cable TV boxes: They’re designed to be not too helpful.. The cable box’s raison d’etre is to produce revenue for the cable or satellite TV company ...