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 ...

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 ...

Roku streaming boxes can now be used as cable boxes for Time Warner Cable subscribers. The feature upgrade comes courtesy of the free TWC TV app, which went live in the Roku Channel Store earlier ...

Roku on Tuesday announced that it is teaming up with Comcast to bring the cable company's Xfinity TV app to its family of media-streaming boxes. The app is in beta for now, but continues an ongoing ...

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 ...

Last year, the cable industry seemed to be making meaningful progress toward eliminating the hated cable box. Comcast announced plans for a Roku app and a way for any device maker to create their own ...

Commentary: A proposal by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler calls for cable companies like Comcast to "unlock the set-top box." Unlocking isn't enough. The box should die, once ...

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 ...

Could Comcast kill the cable box? TechCrunch reports the cable provider launched its new Xfinity TV app on Roku, featuring live and on-demand programming, including from local broadcast stations. And ...

The Federal Communications Commission has seen the future of cable TV, and it looks like the apps on your smartphone. The agency will vote Sept. 29 on a proposal from commission Chairman Tom Wheeler ...

As if it weren’t already easy enough to watch movies on Netflix, the popular movie rental service, is said to be in talks with top U.S. cable operators with regards to allowing its online service to ...

The Consumer Electronics Show was chock-full of notices desperate to convey a sense that the future has arrived. But when Time Warner Cable and Roku made a joint announcement at this time last year ...