Here’s the deal: For about $10 a month, your cable company installs a coaxial cable, just like the one that brings you cable television, to a special decoder box connected to your home stereo… ...

A Raleigh warehouse was raided last month as part of a federal crack down on mail order sales of illegal cable TV converter boxes. Sale or use of the devices is a federal crime. Agents rounded up ...

The nation's cable-TV operators are scrambling to meet new rules aimed at creating competition in the market for set-top decoder boxes. Sarah Gardner reports.

Charter Spectrum will be switching Pittsfield's cable television signals to 100 percent digital March 6, which will require customers to rent a digital cable box for every TV they operate.

I didn't use a decoder box before (I never ordered premium channels), so the cable came straight out of the wall to the splitter and on to the other devices.

TCI has said that reducing channel capacity would let customers get rid of decoder boxes and attach cable-ready TVs and VCRs directly to the system and should ensure improved signal quality and ...

If they are illegal, the offending decoder boxes are switched off. By that means, HBO Asia discovered recently that decoders supplied by its distributors in Indonesia had migrated to the Philippines.

Under the plan, the local Cox operator will deliver two HDTV channels using the QAM modulation scheme as part of its digital cable service. Subscribers who have a General Instrument DTC2000 digital ...

A new cable decoder box, called the Eagle Platform, is being launched in Los Angeles at the end of this month, and this is expected to generate export orders in the first half of next year, Stols ...