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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As we discussed in our earlier advisory here, last year the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted additional obligations for cable operators related to their support for customer use of ...

We’ve covered these feature-packed VidaBox media center PCs before, but none like this: in addition to having both Blu-ray and HD DVD players on board, now VidaBox is offering CableCARD compatibility ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's a simple vision, really: No cable box on the entertainment center, no cable-box remote control on the coffee table. For cable subscribers who own a digital-cable-ready television, it's now ...

The Consumer Electronics Show could see the beginnings of a resurgence of CableCard, the PCMCIA Type II card that authorizes and decrypts a cable TV signal for a TV or TV peripheral. Many PCs, set-top ...

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, ...