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, ...

John P. Falcone is the senior director of commerce content at CNET, where he coordinates coverage of the site's buying recommendations alongside the CNET Advice team (where he previously headed the ...

The good news is, as of July 1 cable companies are required to ship new cable boxes that use new bi-directional CableCards, a move mandated by the FCC to support CableCard-based alternatives such as ...

Some of the nation's most prominent cable TV programmers are asking the FCC to continue allowing cable operators to skirt the commission's regulations designed to ultimately allow people to shop for a ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The Federal Communications Commission has ordered cable companies to allow subscribers to use third party navigation devices to access their cable services at the same price as ...

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 ...

Someday you’ll be able to record cable TV shows on your computer. But that’s not going to happen until you can somehow plug a CableCard into it, that PC Card that lets you receive encrypted digital ...

Operators move closer to offering service allowing consumers to simply plug a card into a device to get cable TV service. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone ...