Cable Card has a reputation for being finicky and difficult to install, but my recent experiment with a third party DVR on Verizon Fios was pure cake. David leads the editorial team at CNET. We create ...

What can I do with it? Would it be foolishness to connect a firewire 400 cable from the STB to my laptop and use it to make a poor mans VCR? A lot of these set top boxes issued by cable companies have ...

A heaping pile of tangled cords is an eyesore. In a tech-centered world, chargers, power strips, Internet cords, and connectors abound. But there’s nothing cute or calming about them. In fact, they ...

I went out and picked up the digital cable box (Motorola box, don't remember model number) from my cable comapany so I could watch some channels in HD. The HD channels were good, but honestly the over ...