Say goodbye to cord chaos by crafting a simple wooden cable organizer.

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 ...

[Peter]’s folks’ cable company is terrible – such a surprise for a cable TV provider – and the digital part of their cable subscription will only work with the company’s cable boxes. The cable company ...

An innocent little cable box can suck up more electricity than your actual TV. The most galling part though? Up to two-thirds of its power-hogging actually happens in “idle” mode, when you’re not even ...

Oct. 14—Spectrum Cable customers have the option to ditch the cable box entirely and sign up for a Xumo streaming device, a move that Charter Spectrum executives said they hope will bring more unity ...

The cable service is trying to get ahead of the FCC's proposed tougher set-top box rules with a plan to get its Xfinity TV services on Samsung smart TVs and Roku boxes. Sometimes, you almost want 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 ...

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 ...