As all English-speaking peoples of the world know by now, the digital switchover is coming. Here's your chance to score a free converter box and cable for your analog TV.

If you do cable TV, you're a renter. You need that set-top-box that connects the cable to your television, and chances are, your cable company won't let you buy the thing. You're forced to rent it ...

Boxes can be obtained on Suddenlink's website, at a drive thru by their main Lubbock office on Hartford Avenue, or by calling. Upon request, Suddenlink will send a technician to homes to provide the ...

Still up for debate is whether the FCC's cable TV box rule, if enacted, ... FCC votes to free your cable box; critics say Google wins. Updated: Feb. 19, 2016, 4:20 p.m.

The FCC has seen the future of cable TV, and it looks like the apps on your smartphone. The agency will vote later this month on a proposal to free consumers from the set-top box.

Under the new plan, pay-TV providers would be required to offer free apps that allow you to watch all the programming you'd normally watch through a cable box, with no restrictions, on a streaming ...

Arvig is one of nine providers phasing out cable boxes in favor of streaming. Smith says all new subscribers will get box-free TV by default, and they won’t pay any rental fees.

But the TV industry has been arguing that the proposal is unnecessary because providers are already working toward a future where you don’t need to buy a dedicated cable box. Now Comcast is ...

Roku streaming boxes can now be used as cable boxes for Time Warner Cable subscribers. The feature upgrade comes courtesy of the free TWC TV app, which went live in the Roku Channel Store earlier ...

You can ditch the box, cut the cable bill and save money by using pay TV apps that stream their channels over a broadband to your TV, phone or tablet.

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission suggested that the cable box business is broken, and it offered a plan to fix it. Under the FCC’s proposal, TV operators would have to supply ...

The FCC has seen the future of cable TV, and it looks like the apps on your smartphone. The agency will vote later this month on a proposal to free consumers from the set-top box.