Last Friday, the Federal Communications Commission finally gave up on trying to mandate more alternatives to clunky and expensive cable boxes. In a unanimous decision, the agency eliminated rules ...

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, ...

John P. Falcone is the senior director of commerce content at CNET, where he coordinates coverage of the site's buying recommendations alongside the CNET Advice team (where he previously headed the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some of the nation's most prominent cable TV programmers are asking the FCC to continue allowing cable operators to skirt the commission's regulations designed to ultimately allow people to shop for a ...

I found myself sifting through a few technical rants over the weekend and came upon a reference to "CableCard," a term that was pretty hot just a year or two ago and signified big things for the ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The Federal Communications Commission has ordered cable companies to allow subscribers to use third party navigation devices to access their cable services at the same price as ...

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 ...

I have an HDTV. I watch over-the-air HD channels on it for the most part, and I also have standard old analog cable being fed into the TV.<BR><BR>The cable company says if I want HD programming, I ...

In preparing this week's Blog, there are several topics that are on my mind. The CableCARD situation continues to come to my mind. As I mentioned in my weekly newsletter, I've been going through ...

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 ...