If the industry press is to be believed, Tuesday's announcement that Sony would be producing TVs with Tru2way compatibility was a watershed event--the electronics world equivalent of the Magna Carta ...

I found myself sifting through a few technical rants over the weekend and came upon a reference to "CableCard," a term that was pretty hot just a year or two ago and signified big things for the ...

For all of its promise, CableCARD has seen excruciatingly slow adoption on the part of cable customers. According to the National Cable and Telecommunications Association quarterly report to the ...

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.

Two years ago CableCard was going to release Cable TV subscribers from the bondage of the set top box and provide freedom to digital Cable aware devices like HTPC. A recent story in the New York Times ...

New Ceton InfiniTV 6 Models support six simultaneous channels with a single CableCARD and are available in Ethernet-attached network tuner and PCI Express Form Factors. Consumer options for cutting ...

Info trickles out about the capabilities of Media Center Edition on Windows Vista, and Matt Goyer, Microsoft’s blogger for the company’s eHome division, offered both good news and bad news in his post ...

You probably keep hearing about CableCARD technology (also called "Digital Cable Ready") - or perhaps you've never heard of it. In either case, there's good news for you as a consumer. After fighting ...

We’ve covered these feature-packed VidaBox media center PCs before, but none like this: in addition to having both Blu-ray and HD DVD players on board, now VidaBox is offering CableCARD compatibility ...

The cable industry suffered a blow on Friday when a federal appeals court upheld the Federal Communications Commission's mandate requiring cable operators to distribute a technology called CableCards, ...

It's a simple vision, really: No cable box on the entertainment center, no cable-box remote control on the coffee table. For cable subscribers who own a digital-cable-ready television, it's now ...

The Federal Communications Commission is giving cable TV companies until Nov. 1 to comply with a rule requiring them to offer CableCARD self-installation to customers ...