Expensive fiber-optic HDMI cable maintains its full bandwidth over much longer distances.

Another potential threat to entrenched cable television franchisees is emerging as major telecom providers are pushing to deliver programming over their fiber-optic lines. Verizon Communications Inc.

The product is an active optical cable (AOC) for HDMI. Instead of relying solely on copper, it carries most of its signal over fiber-optic strands. Inside ...

Customers agree: Fiber is good for you Satellite and cable television services might have more formidable competition in telephone companies than they might have imagined, judging from customers' ...

TV - Commercials mocking Verizon's FiOS, while touting cable firms' own fiber networks, strike some viewers as misleading NEW YORK -- Avery Axel was annoyed with his cable company, Comcast, and was ...

TODD? TODD: STACEY, FOLKS IN BEAVERDALE HAVE BEEN SEEING CREWS INSTALL THE FIBER OPTIC CABLE, EITHER HANDING IT FROM LINES, OR BURYING IT UNDERGROUND IN NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS THE THREE. THE COMPANY IS ...

Satellite and cable television services might have more formidable competition in telephone companies than they might have imagined, judging from customers' reactions. By Paul Bond, The Associated ...