The White House said it's asking the FCC to open up set-top box competition. The Federal Communications Commission is pursuing new regulations giving consumers more options to buy cable boxes ...

Cable boxes are on the wane, and for good reason. Cable is expensive, and boxes are expensive to rent. Their software is garbage compared to one of any number of set-top box alternatives like Roku ...

President Obama is demanding better, cheaper versions of the cable boxes that millions of Americans use to browse their pay-TV channels, in hopes of enhancing competition. The Obama administration ...

Cable operators Comcast and Charter are now offering the new Xumo Stream Box to their customers. The device pairs live TV from both providers with built-in streaming apps.

The FCC says it costs subscribers an average of $231 a year to rent the boxes that enable them to watch cable TV. The president supports making it easier for viewers to buy the boxes instead.

But while the cable box is dying, it's not dead yet. Until it is, there's no reason not to try to make it better. This week, Comcast gave us a taste of the cable-box-free future.