Last Friday, the Federal Communications Commission finally gave up on trying to mandate more alternatives to clunky and expensive cable boxes. In a unanimous decision, the agency eliminated rules ...

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, ...

The good news is, as of July 1 cable companies are required to ship new cable boxes that use new bi-directional CableCards, a move mandated by the FCC to support CableCard-based alternatives such as ...

It looks like I'm going to finally have to switch to digital cable, as sticking with analog is becoming absurdly expensive. The cable company here is Cox (a name and an attitude!) and they now have an ...

Someday you’ll be able to record cable TV shows on your computer. But that’s not going to happen until you can somehow plug a CableCard into it, that PC Card that lets you receive encrypted digital ...

For some reason, my HTPC with my Ceton CableCARD tuner looks quite a bit worse than my Comcast cable box. Is this normal? My PC is using an nVidia GT430 card connected via HDMI to my TV. I'm using ...

If the industry press is to be believed, Tuesday's announcement that Sony would be producing TVs with Tru2way compatibility was a watershed event--the electronics world equivalent of the Magna Carta ...

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 ...