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 ...

There’s a new way to cut the cord, and for do-it-yourself nerds like me, it might be the best way, too. SiliconDust is best known for its series of HDHomeRun DVR devices that you hook up to a hard ...

Say what you will about cable TV, it at least it got the DVR right. With traditional pay TV service, it was easy to record a show, access that recording from a dedicated DVR menu, skip through the ...

In the cutthroat world of cord-cutting, the best options don’t always get the most customers. Case in point: Hulu + Live TV, whose 3.7 million subscribers make it the most popular cable bundle ...

The rise of cord cutting and streaming video was supposed to render the digital video recorder (DVR) irrelevant. In theory, you shouldn’t need to record anything when services like Netflix and Amazon ...

TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment.

Sling TV is sweetening its Internet-based live-TV service with a feature typically associated with more traditional cable plans: a DVR. But unlike a normal DVR, this one is based in the cloud. Sling ...

You want to cut cable, but can’t imagine giving up recording your favorite programs to watch later? That was me a few years ago, and a Tablo TV tuner was just what I was looking for. This digital ...

U.S. Supreme Court has asked the Justice Department to look at the issue of whether cable operators can deliver networked DVR services. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...

The Amazon Fire TV Recast is a wacky gadget. It’s not wacky in that it looks weird. (It’s just a simple black box.) It’s also not wacky because it does wacky stuff. (It’s a DVR for over-the-air TV.) ...

YouTube TV now enables users to obtain DVR copies of shows from every content provider save one. CBS is the only network on YouTube TV not to make a DVR copy of its ...