With great fanfare, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Thomas Wheeler is calling for sweeping changes to the way cable television set-top boxes work. In an essay published Jan. 27 by Re/Code, ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Conexant Systems Inc. here rolled out what the company claims is the world's most highly-integrated chip for interactive cable set-top boxes. The CX24430 combines cable-modem ...

New York (CNN) — The clunky old cable box doesn’t make sense anymore. Big, ugly, and heavy, they seem to have about as much place working with a modern TV as a DVD player. Cable companies are trying ...

Broadcom Debuts Industry's First Digital Cable Set-Top Box System-on-a-Chip (SOC) With HD AVC/VC-1 Decoding, Channel Bonding and Downloadable Security Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global ...

Michael Arden, principal analyst of residential entertainment technologies at ABI Research, says there are three possible futures for the set-top box. The third possibility is that manufacturers will ...

Seven companies including Pioneer and Sharp agreed this week to build a system that would bring MPEG-4 to cable set-top boxes. Using the newly introduced compression format, which supporters say ...

The cable box appears to be going the way of the VCR. Spectrum, late last year, announced plans to phase out traditional cable boxes in favor of a streaming device. And while Comcast isn’t quite ready ...

The cable industry suffered a blow on Friday when a federal appeals court upheld the Federal Communications Commission's mandate requiring cable operators to distribute a technology called CableCards, ...

An agreement between Sony and several cable companies could render the familiar set-top box obsolete. Sony this week agreed to develop “plug and play” TVs that do not require a cable set-top box to ...

Operators move closer to offering service allowing consumers to simply plug a card into a device to get cable TV service. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone ...