The First Honest Cable Company Commercial

Cable companies are universally regarded as only slightly more popular than evil dictators, and a little less fashionable than certain strains of STDs. How do you fix something like that? Honesty! We're awful; we're unstoppable; you'll hate us; deal with it. That's something you could respect (and which would be…

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NimbleTV Lets You Stream Your Cable Anywhere Without a Box (In New…

If you pay for cable or satellite you should be able to watch it anywhere on any device. You paid for it! That's already possible by using a Slingbox, but NimbleTV wants to let you do it without a box. Disruption.

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How to Beat Time Warner's Bullsh*t Modem Rental Fee

We New Yorkers who are stuck with unreliable Time Warner Cable got a postcard in the mail yesterday informing us that we will now have to pay $4 per month to rent the cable modem necessary to use its crappy internet. Here's how to buy your own modem and stick it to the man, no matter where you live. Because screw you,…

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Ever Wonder How Cable TV Travels from Space to Your House?

You know that cable channels make content and beam it to a satellite, but what happens then? This video is a quick look behind the curtain with one of Time Warner's chief engineers. Who knew porn had to go through all that? [TWCable Untangled]

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Massive Time Warner Outage Hits the US

Time Warner internet services are taking a dump all over the country today, with users in New York, LA, San Francisco, Kansas City, Dallas, Ohio, and other cities and regions without internet. Many areas are reporting that service is back to normal, but we've put in a call to Time Warner to see exactly what happened.

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