The clunky old cable box doesn’t make sense anymore. Big, ugly, and heavy, they seem to have about as much place working with a modern TV as a DVD player. Cable companies are trying to catch up with ...

Spectrum Cable customers have the option to ditch the cable box entirely and sign up for a Xumo streaming device, a move that Charter Spectrum executives said they hope will bring more unity to the ...

Spectrum, late last year, announced plans to phase out traditional cable boxes in favor of a streaming device. And while Comcast isn’t quite ready to abandon its set top box, it is offering that same ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Spectrum is phasing out the ubiquitous cable box and replacing it with a coaster-sized device it hopes will help it compete better against streaming TV services. The company recently ...

Charter’s Spectrum Cable has announced changes for the way its customers can access video content going forward — both the shows they watch on television and the shows they stream. Currently, Spectrum ...

Comcast will soon let its customers to bypass the cable box and get Xfinity service directly on their television sets or streaming media gadgets. A new Comcast app will transform new Samsung smart TVs ...

Michael Arden, principal analyst of residential entertainment technologies at ABI Research, says there are three possible futures for the set-top box. The third possibility is that manufacturers will ...

Cable set-top boxes traditionally have been outside the realm of integrators' work, mainly sold or leased through service providers. But as Motorola and Cisco's Scientific-Atlanta division each add ...

Read more: Review of Spectrum’s new Xumo streaming box with Cloud DVR: How to use + cost breakdown Charter’s Spectrum Cable has announced changes for the way its customers can access video content ...