Times Union

Plan may offer alternatives to cable box

You may soon have more options for a cable box than renting one from your cable company. The Federal Communications Commission has a plan to make cable companies provide apps that could be used on ...
TechHive

Cable-box competition rules have been completely dismantled—to the detriment of consumers

Last Friday, the Federal Communications Commission finally gave up on trying to mandate more alternatives to clunky and expensive cable boxes. In a unanimous decision, the agency eliminated rules ...
TechHive

The FCC wants to blow up the cable box. Here’s what its proposal will (and won’t) do

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission suggested that the cable box business is broken, and it offered a plan to fix it. Under the FCC’s proposal, TV operators would have to supply their ...