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 their ...

If the cable operator's efforts to partner with leading gadget makers are successful, those set-top boxes could be a thing of the past. Photo: Comcast's AnyPlay device Erica Ogg is a CNET News ...

It wasn't long ago when it seemed as if bulky cable boxes might be going the way of TV antennas. The federal government was pressuring cable companies to open up their near-monopoly on boxes to more ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. The upcoming National Cable Television Association meeting in Chicago (June 10-13) could mark the swan song of the cable industry's traditional closed business model. With the ...

The FCC voted to put a proposal to “open up” the set-top box out for public comment, despite fierce lobbying against it from cable and satellite firms as well as Hollywood studios. The vote was 3-2, ...

is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. This is The Divergence, a weekly column from The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, exploring the spaces ...

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler dropped a bomb on the cable television1 industry yesterday with his proposal to allow any manufacturer to create cable boxes that can access pay-TV service. (The FCC is ...

The Obama administration called on the Federal Communications Commission to open competition on cable boxes, allowing consumers to switch between cable devices, Reuters reported on Friday.

The Obama administration on Friday weighed into the debate over allowing consumers to switch pricey cable television boxes for less expensive devices, urging an agency to set an example for other ...

If you have cable TV, you're probably overpaying to rent a set-top box from your cable company – likely to the tune of hundreds of dollars a year. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is about ...