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 ...

A new study by the National Resources Defense Council has found that digital video recorders (DVRs), cable and other pay-TV boxes cost American consumers $3 billion a year. The costs break down to $1 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I reported in October that Charter Spectrum had introduced a new device called Xumo, which can replace your existing cable box — ...

Cable TV and TiVo go together like peanut butter and jelly, or at least they did until now. The company that, for all intents and purposes, invented the DVR has, after 14 years, released one ...

Leave it to those wet blankets in the federal government to tell us that watching modern-day TV is about as energy inefficient as possible. For years, the cable companies have been switching all their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Digital Video Recorder technology is about to get a giant boost in the marketplace, and it's not because of Tivo. Comcast has announced its intentions to bring DVR functionality to its set-top boxes ...

Digeo dropped by the CNET offices this morning to give us a demo of their upcoming HD DVR, Moxi. We first saw Moxi many a CES ago and were definitely impressed, but since then only certain areas have ...

DENVER (CBS4)-It's not your refrigerator or your air conditioning unit that's wasting the most energy in your home. For most people it's the DVR and home cable box. "It looks like one of the smartest ...

U.S. Supreme Court has asked the Justice Department to look at the issue of whether cable operators can deliver networked DVR services. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...