Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. There is nothing ...

Cord-cutting has become so popular that some small cable companies are joining in, trading their own set-top boxes for streaming TV service. This week, a video delivery company called MobiTV announced ...

PITTSFIELD —First it was South County, then it was Northern Berkshire, and soon it will be Pittsfield's turn. On Tuesday, Charter Spectrum will establish an all-digital signal in Pittsfield, something ...

STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM), the world’s largest supplier of silicon chips for set-top boxes (STBs)*, has announced a new generation single-chip solution for digital cable-TV STBs. The newest member ...

Nick Statt is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Time Warner Cable customers in New York City and New Jersey will be ...

The digital television transition this year entered its next major marketing phase as select cable operators began selling high-definition television equipment and services through major consumer ...

LOCAL television decoder-box manufacturer UEC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Altech, has announced a series of orders worth R218m in Europe and the Middle East, and says it is confident that it will ...

If you’re a cable customer, over time, equipment breaks and you need to replace it. Other times, a box might be outdated, so you exchange it for a newer cable box. Cable providers will usually give ...