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 ...

The wife and I moved to our new place over the weekend . Comcast, in it's infinite wisdom, made it more expensive for me to keep my existing basic+preferred analog cable package than to try digital ...

Q: Many television programs indicate they are “closed captioned” for the hearing impaired. What must one do to receive this service? A: You need a closed caption decoder, which looks like a cable box ...

Commentary: A proposal by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler calls for cable companies like Comcast to "unlock the set-top box." Unlocking isn't enough. The box should die, once ...

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 ...

Geneva, Switzerland — STMicroelectronics has released a low-cost set-top-box (STB) decoder chip aimed at standard-definition (SD) terrestrial, cable, satellite and Internet Protocol (IP) TV ...

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 Other times, a box might be outdated, so you exchange it for a newer cable box.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 ...

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 ...

Legal analysis courtesy of Matt Dobbins and Zachary Sharpe, and Trevor Adler of The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. While our attention was diverted toward DigitalLife last week, it looks ...

Japan’s public broadcaster NHK has unveiled a prototype 4K/8K ‘Super Hi-Vision’ Ultra-HD cable decoder box. The box is being showcased at the giant CEATEC Japan technology show (October 4th – 7th).