RCA has two conductors - signal and ground. Fortunately, RG-6 cable (coaxial) also does this. The center wire would be signal, and the surrounding braid would be ground.

The new Chromecast Audio is neat. But the box only comes with a 1/8th inch aux cable (AKA a headphone cable), so if you want to use that handy little streaming gadget with anything that doesn't ...

Spectrum is replacing its cable set-top boxes with the Xumo Stream Box, a coaster-sized device that streams the company's cable programming and gives customers access to more than 250 subscription ...

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 ...

Another, more dramatic option: Kill off the set-top box altogether and make cable TV and satellite service just one more app in the app store—which is what audiences would likely appreciate most ...

That will not change with the switch to the cloud. Charter’s Spectrum cable company introduces XUMO, a new box that replaces your current set-top cable box and gives you access to streaming sites.

The SVideo to RCA cable is sometime hard to find and the adapter is almost every time too short. I’ve searched at my local store and haven’t found any. So I’ve decided to search on google and found ...

Shutterstock The cable box is one of those accepted facts of TV that never seems to change. You get cable, they send you the box, you pay for the box, you figure out how the box works except for ...

An image of Jan Meyer's new cable box for her 28-year-old television. She was charged $345 by Optimum when she tried to replace a broken box.

XUMO should do everything your cable box does, but also give you a way to stream shows from other platforms without having to purchase a streaming device such as Roku, Amazon Fire Stick or Apple TV.

In 2015, Comcast launched a box-free cable service in Boston called Stream, designed for phones, tablets and computers. At the time, the company said it would roll out to all users by early 2016.