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 ...

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 ...

The FCC is finally kind of putting its foot down on the long-delayed implementation of CableCARDs. The commission's Media Bureau on Jan. 10 told Comcast to quit stalling, while Cablevision and a ...

It looks like I'm going to finally have to switch to digital cable, as sticking with analog is becoming absurdly expensive. The cable company here is Cox (a name and an attitude!) and they now have an ...

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 ...

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 ...