For a certain kind of cord-cutter, combining over-the-air broadcasts and cable channels into a single DVR has always been the dream scenario. While we’ve seen several attempts in the past—including ...

Cable TV operators won a key legal battle against Hollywood studios and television networks on Monday as the Supreme Court declined to block a new digital video recording system that could make it ...

Electric bills have skyrocketed recently, thanks to recent rate hikes and new high-tech appliances that eat up watts. But one entertainment appliance might be the biggest power hog of all — the cable ...

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 ...

Covering home audio and video, Matthew Moskovciak helps CNET readers find the best sights and sounds for their home theaters. Downside: The Sonys look good on paper, but they're up against some ...

Digital Video Recording hit an inflection point in 2005, both for equipment and services, according to iSupply. Cable companies have moved from tentative deployment of DVRs to aggressive deployment.

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. After a long ...

We currently have cable (Uverse). We also have Prime and Netflix. We currently watch (literally) about 4 shows a week on cable, mostly PBS for the kid. We would like to not have cable because we are ...

O Roamio, Roamio, wherefore art thou Roamio? The answer, hopes TiVo, is next to your TV. TiVo, which pioneered the digital-video recorder in the late 1990s and early 2000s, is back with Roamio, its ...

The cable industry’s primary lobby group has provided more details on its counter-proposal to the Federal Communications Commission’s set-top box plan, and there’s at least one thing cable TV ...

The DVR has always been a tool to record TV shows and play them back, to watch on the television. Amazon changes that. Its Fire TV Recast DVR, out Nov. 14, will re-imagine how you think of a DVR. Yes, ...