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 ...

[Peter]’s folks’ cable company is terrible – such a surprise for a cable TV provider – and the digital part of their cable subscription will only work with the company’s cable boxes. The cable company ...

Starting this week, federal regulators are giving cable television customers the option of buying their own set-top boxes instead of leasing them. Consumers will decide whether there's a reason to ...

Spectrum TV customers in the Coachella Valley and elsewhere will start receiving a new kind of streaming box instead of the digital cable box or DVR they're used to. The Xumo Stream Box, a joint ...