CableCARD: sure, one day it might take the world by storm, but right now, the only place it's being deployed en masse is in cable operators' set-top box offerings. Ironically, the card was designed to ...

If the industry press is to be believed, Tuesday's announcement that Sony would be producing TVs with Tru2way compatibility was a watershed event--the electronics world equivalent of the Magna Carta ...

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 ...

Two years ago CableCard was going to release Cable TV subscribers from the bondage of the set top box and provide freedom to digital Cable aware devices like HTPC. A recent story in the New York Times ...

The ban hammer fell on July 1, 2007. That's the date the FCC set for its "integration ban" to prevent cable TV operators from deploying set-top boxes with integrated decryption and security systems.

RIP CableCARD. After almost a decade of experimentation, the FCC is finally giving up on CableCARD, the effort that began with the Telecommunications Act of 1996 in trying to open up cable systems ...

New Ceton InfiniTV 6 Models support six simultaneous channels with a single CableCARD and are available in Ethernet-attached network tuner and PCI Express Form Factors. Consumer options for cutting ...

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, ...

We’ve covered these feature-packed VidaBox media center PCs before, but none like this: in addition to having both Blu-ray and HD DVD players on board, now VidaBox is offering CableCARD compatibility ...

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 ...

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 ...

Info trickles out about the capabilities of Media Center Edition on Windows Vista, and Matt Goyer, Microsoft’s blogger for the company’s eHome division, offered both good news and bad news in his post ...