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 to catch up with ...

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So-called “TV Everywhere” apps from cable providers make it easier to check out your favorite shows on mobile devices, but services are usually very limited, and you still need a separate box for each ...

In the middle of the night, when most Americans are sound asleep, their lights and appliances off, a power hog is wide awake and running at nearly full throttle: the boxes that operate their cable or ...

Someday, we'll see cable boxes as relics, reminders of a bygone age when funneling movies and shows from one place to another was so much more complicated---and expensive---than it had to be. But ...

At the WWDC keynote Monday, Apple announced its first-ever deal with a U.S. cable provider to make Apple TV function as a cable box replacement. But, whether that can happen universally is another ...

Cord-cutting has become so popular that some small cable companies are joining in, trading their own set-top boxes for streaming TV service. This week, a video delivery company called MobiTV announced ...