People who are looking forward to ultimate home entertainment prefer to spend their money on high definition set top boxes. In fact, the HDTV boxes offer something for everyone. However, many people ...

Tired of renting that anything-but-cutting-edge box from your cable provider? The FCC wants to open the market to competition. CNET tells you what you need to know and how long you'll have to wait.

If you subscribe to pay TV, the odds are 99–1 you have what the TV industry calls a “set-top box.” Even greater are the odds that, if you have one, you despise the thing. Each month, you “rent” a ...

You likely don't think about your set-top box much, any more than you might think about your gall bladder. You live with the one you were assigned. The decision of which model you'd be stuck with was ...

In 1993, a young Broadcom Corp. got its big break when TV set-top box maker Scientific-Atlanta Inc. tapped it to supply chips for boxes used in an experimental interactive cable system in Orlando, Fla ...

A followup to this article has been published. In “Comcast: Cable Modem Rentals Contribute More Than Olympics” I left Comcast ’s set-top box rentals out of my analysis because I didn’t think customers ...

The Federal Communications Commission has begun a process that could lead to TV viewers being able to own their cable TV set-top boxes. That's probably a problem most subscribers didn't know they had, ...