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 ...

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 ...

Every Thursday Stephen Speicher contributes The Clicker, a weekly column on television and technology: In theory, it sounds like a good idea: "The networks will be open. OpenCable will free people ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A federal appeals court upheld an FCC mandate last month requiring cable companies to support CableCard technology -- which essentially allows consumers to get rid of their set-top cable TV boxes.

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, ...

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 ...