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 ...

If your friend accepts your invitation, his cable box will tune into the same show you’re watching. It isn’t really clear why you’d want to do this, but it’s neat from a tech point of view, I guess.

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 ...

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 ...

An Apple TV can now be used to watch all of Comcast’s live, on demand and DVR programming. The cable behemoth’s subscribers just need to install the newly-released Xfinity Stream app on Apple’s ...

Spectrum cable customers who use a streaming device to access their cable channels on extra TVs have one fewer option — at least for now. The Charter-owned cable company’s agreement with Roku, one of ...

For a cable box replacement, the Xumo Stream Box could be better at doing cable things. With the Xumo Stream Box, Comcast and Spectrum are leaving clunky cable boxes behind, with mixed results. This ...

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