A new study by the National Resources Defense Council has found that digital video recorders (DVRs), cable and other pay-TV boxes cost American consumers $3 billion a year. The costs break down to $1 ...

Leave it to those wet blankets in the federal government to tell us that watching modern-day TV is about as energy inefficient as possible. For years, the cable companies have been switching all their ...

I reported in October that Charter Spectrum had introduced a new device called Xumo, which can replace your existing cable box — including live TV — and also stream programming from platforms such at ...

You can still buy physical DVRs.

Back in 2008, I moved into a new home and became a Comcast subscriber for the first time. For a few weeks, I used the set-top box and remote which the company then offered. They provided such a ...

Comcast's Houston division Tuesday began rolling out its Xfinity X1 DVR/cable box technology, which includes multiple recording options to match the offerings of the cable giant's top competitors plus ...

Cable TV and TiVo go together like peanut butter and jelly, or at least they did until now. The company that, for all intents and purposes, invented the DVR has, after 14 years, released one ...

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<p>Digital Video Recorder technology is about to get a giant boost in the marketplace, and it's not because of Tivo. Comcast has announced its intentions to <a href ...

For a certain kind of cord-cutter, combining over-the-air broadcasts and cable channels into a single DVR has always been the dream scenario. While we’ve seen several attempts in the past—including ...