Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remote and cable box sitting on white console in front of TV - Ultraskrip/Shutterstock While entertainment technology has evolved ...

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 ...

Are you tired of looking at that ugly cable box? The obvious solution is to hide it behind closed doors. Unfortunately, many of today's cable boxes and other components use IR (infrared) remotes, ...

NEW YORK -- Not that long ago, the clunky cable box looked as if it were on its way out. The federal government was pressuring cable companies to open up their near-monopoly on boxes to more ...

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 ...

Last year, the cable industry seemed to be making meaningful progress toward eliminating the hated cable box. Comcast announced plans for a Roku app and a way for any device maker to create their own ...

NEW YORK (AP) — You may soon have more options for a cable box than renting one from your cable company. The Federal Communications Commission has a plan to make cable companies provide apps that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charter’s Spectrum Cable has announced changes for the way its customers can access video content going forward — both the shows ...

Whether it’s in the living room or the office somewhere, each of us has an unflattering mess of USBs, HDMI cables, and other various cords that we don’t know what to do with. Cable management boxes ...

Comcast has apparently started testing its own web-connected cable boxes in an Augusta, Georgia pilot program, according to the Wall Street Journal. The project is referred to as “Xcalibur” internally ...