Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. There is nothing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charter’s Spectrum Cable has announced changes for the way its customers can access video content going forward — both the shows ...

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 ...

Today, consumers looking to take HDTV cable services must acquire an HDTV-compatible cable decoder box to view the new channels. This can come either directly from a local cable operator or from one ...

PITTSFIELD —First it was South County, then it was Northern Berkshire, and soon it will be Pittsfield's turn. On Tuesday, Charter Spectrum will establish an all-digital signal in Pittsfield, something ...

Cord-cutting has become so popular that some small cable companies are joining in, trading their own set-top boxes for streaming TV service. This week, a video delivery company called MobiTV announced ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a ...

If you’re a cable customer, over time, equipment breaks and you need to replace it. Other times, a box might be outdated, so you exchange it for a newer cable box. Cable providers will usually give ...

LOCAL television decoder-box manufacturer UEC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Altech, has announced a series of orders worth R218m in Europe and the Middle East, and says it is confident that it will ...

Although the ink isn’t even dry on a new set of compatibility agreements for digital television receivers and digital cable services, one cable operator is preparing to take an HDTV service offer to ...