Comcast will soon let its customers to bypass the cable box and get Xfinity service directly on their television sets or streaming media gadgets. A new Comcast app will transform new Samsung smart TVs ...

But this all presumes that there is even a problem that the FCC needs to solve. The industry is already developing apps that can be downloaded to SmartTVs, BlueRay players, tablets, computers, and ...

When you shop for pay TV — whether it comes to your house via cable, satellite or a fiber-optic link — the price you see isn’t the price you pay, thanks to a raft of add-on fees traditionally led by a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (April 21, 2016) — Comcast will ...

Last week, President Barack Obama came out in support of an FCC proposal to free cable subscribers from the dreaded cable boxes they have to lease from their cable providers. This week, Comcast ...

One of a TV bill’s more obnoxious components doesn’t cover any channels or provide any entertainment whatsoever, unless “fussing with the remote” counts as fun: the fees you pay to rent a box to ...

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 ...

If your friend accepts your invitation, his cable box will tune into the same show you’re watching. It isn’t really clear why you’d want to do this, but it’s neat from a tech point of view, I guess.