Q-I have lost my favorite VCR feature since I had cable installed. I cannot tape a show to watch at another time while watching another show. Is there some way to correct this with an adapter? A-I ...

Usually when a cable television provider scrambles a signal it is rather difficult to descramble, if not impossible. However, I am supposed to receive channels 2-25 & 60-70 flawlessly (this is my ...

A common “junk e-mail” sent out these days seems to be from people selling the know-how to build cable descrambler boxes. For a fee of, say, $13.95, the list of items needed to build a cable box can ...

Q: I’ve always just assumed that cable descramblers are as illegal as tapping into your neighbor’s service. So what’s with all these pop-ups and spams hawking “completely legal” descramblers? Man, I ...

Two local cable television operators yesterday were reconsidering their plans to launch digital cable services in Taipei City after the city government set a price cap on the set-top descrambler box.

When the FBI raided the New Haven, Conn., home of Robert R. Radil in 1994, it came up with a gold mine of information on his computer hard drive — the customer list for his illicit cable descrambler ...