PITTSFIELD —First it was South County, then it was Northern Berkshire, and soon it will be Pittsfield's turn. On Tuesday, Charter Spectrum will establish an all-digital signal in Pittsfield, something ...

Commentary: A proposal by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler calls for cable companies like Comcast to "unlock the set-top box." Unlocking isn't enough. The box should die, once ...

The wife and I moved to our new place over the weekend . Comcast, in it's infinite wisdom, made it more expensive for me to keep my existing basic+preferred analog cable package than to try digital ...

Q: Many television programs indicate they are “closed captioned” for the hearing impaired. What must one do to receive this service? A: You need a closed caption decoder, which looks like a cable box ...

LOCAL television decoder-box manufacturer UEC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Altech, has announced a series of orders worth R218m in Europe and the Middle East, and says it is confident that it will ...

Geneva, Switzerland — STMicroelectronics has released a low-cost set-top-box (STB) decoder chip aimed at standard-definition (SD) terrestrial, cable, satellite and Internet Protocol (IP) TV ...

The digital television transition this year entered its next major marketing phase as select cable operators began selling high-definition television equipment and services through major consumer ...

If you’re a cable customer, over time, equipment breaks and you need to replace it. Other times, a box might be outdated, so you exchange it for a newer cable box. Cable providers will usually give ...

Japan’s public broadcaster NHK has unveiled a prototype 4K/8K ‘Super Hi-Vision’ Ultra-HD cable decoder box. The box is being showcased at the giant CEATEC Japan technology show (October 4th – 7th).