The FCC has adopted rules reached between the cable and consumer electronics industries that will help smooth the transition to DTV for millions of Americans. These “plug-and-play” rules will ensure ...

CEA (Consumer Electronics Association) announced the figure at the National Show, the annual cable industry conference being held this week in San Francisco, where CEA also is showcasing asampling of ...

CEA announced the figure at the National Show, the annual cable industry conference being held this week in San Francisco, where CEA also is showcasing a sampling of the scores of digital ...

Like many other families, we bought “cable-ready” televisions because we wanted to take them home and hook them directly to the cable. Recently, we were told that this was no longer possible. Our ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The CEA projects that by year’s end, more than one million digital cable-ready HDTVs will be sold ...

Hitachi will be among the first vendors to ship fully integrated HDTV sets equipped with built-in smart card slots for uni-directional reception of scrambled and basic cable TV services. The company ...

The ban hammer fell on July 1, 2007. That's the date the FCC set for its "integration ban" to prevent cable TV operators from deploying set-top boxes with integrated decryption and security systems.

The renovated home of three-time Olympic javelin thrower Kara Winger now has all the training amenities she needs, including cable. No premium channels available on this cable, though. It’s just a ...

We know that you'd like nothing better than to get rid of that set-top box sitting on your DVD player. It's ugly, it's clunky, and it has its own remote. Extra cables snake about the back of your ...