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 ...

For a cable box replacement, the Xumo Stream Box could be better at doing cable things. With the Xumo Stream Box, Comcast and Spectrum are leaving clunky cable boxes behind, with mixed results. This ...

Even if you’re not ready to cut the cable TV cord, there’s still a simple way to reduce your monthly TV bill. The trick is to use your TV provider’s free streaming apps in place of traditional set-top ...

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 ...

I reported in October that Charter Spectrum had introduced a new device called Xumo, which can replace your existing cable box — including live TV — and also stream programming from platforms such at ...

An Apple TV can now be used to watch all of Comcast’s live, on demand and DVR programming. The cable behemoth’s subscribers just need to install the newly-released Xfinity Stream app on Apple’s ...

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.

Ask any 50- or 60-year-old to describe what their home television system looked like during their younger years and you’ll most likely get descriptions of large box-style televisions with dials that ...