In April 2016, Comcast said Xfinity cable customers would be able to forgo an expensive cable box before the end of the year and use a Roku box instead. The company missed that target, but the good ...

Last year, the cable industry seemed to be making meaningful progress toward eliminating the hated cable box. Comcast announced plans for a Roku app and a way for any device maker to create their own ...

Both companies hope the Stream Box will become a ‘cable box’ for the streaming era as pay TV continues its decline. Both companies hope the Stream Box will become a ‘cable box’ for the streaming era ...

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 ...

Comcast has apparently realized that charging cord cutters $5 per month for a streaming box was a bad idea. The company’s Xfinity Flex device, which is essentially an Xfinity X1 cable box without the ...

The Xfinity Flex streaming box and remote is aimed at Comcast’s internet-only subscribers who want to watch video on the big screen. (Comcast Photo) Commentary: After subscribing to Comcast cable ...

The app allows subscribers to watch live and on-demand TV via Roku devices. It's free during beta, but will entail a monthly fee after official launch. David leads the editorial team at CNET. We ...

Roku on Tuesday announced that it is teaming up with Comcast to bring the cable company's Xfinity TV app to its family of media-streaming boxes. The app is in beta for now, but continues an ongoing ...

Comcast is set to become the first major American cable company to voluntarily comply with the FCC’s ‘unlock the box’ initiative that seeks to end the cable monopoly on set-top boxes. Last week, ...

In the face of mounting competition from other services and companies, Comcast has been strangely slow to expand its content offerings outside of its base cable subscription plans. The cable company ...