The TechCrunch blog usually covers start-up culture, but a post today takes a diversion into the limited, primitive realm of cable boxes. You know 'em, you hate 'em. As post author MG Siegler points ...

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 to catch up with ...

Many of the cable boxes that Bay Staters pay a monthly fee to rent or lease from their cable provider could soon be newly subjected to the state’s 6.25% sales tax, under a proposal the Department of ...

It seems the governor isn’t the only one trying to squeeze additional consumption tax dollars out of its beleaguered residents. And of all places, cable TV subscriptions, already a sore subject with ...

Q. My cable company finally scrambled all the channels so they can only be received with a cable box. Can I at least purchase these boxes anywhere? A. This e-mail conveniently arrived on the day ...

Bay State channel-surfers who buy, rent or lease a cable box from their television provider could soon see a change on their bills: state tax collectors confirmed last week that those transactions are ...

Central CATV, the common operator of dominant cable firms of Sky Cable and Home Cable, will introduce digital addressable set-top boxes starting October this year among its cable television ...

The set-top box, a necessary appendage for millions of cable televisions for decades, is moving toward extinction. A leading television manufacturer, Sony, and the National Cable and ...

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 ...