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CableCARD is a plug-in card approximately the size of a credit card that allows consumers in the United States to view and record digital cable television channels on digital video recorders, personal computers and televisions without the use of other equipment such as a set top box (STB) provided by a cable television company. The card, provided by the local company for a nominal monthly fee,... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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QAM tuner In the United States a television that is labelled digital cable ready can have a CableCARD installed by the cable provider to unscramble the protected channels, allowing subscribers to tune all authorized digital channels without the use of a set-top box.

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CableCARD a slot for the current version of CableCARD (see photo here), which allows decryption of encrypted digital channels.

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CableCARD CableCARD also supports non-television functions.

CableCARD Current CableCARDs do not support any of the interactive, two-way communication functions listed above.

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circuitry.

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CableCARD Interactive CableCARD 2.3 features rely on additional circuitry in the CableCARD Host device, not on the physical card.

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    CableCARD

    The card, provided by the local company for a nominal monthly fee, is a PCMCIA card and looks exactly like those used with laptops. ... Use of the term CableCARD can be confusing, because some technologies refer not to the physical card, but to a device ("Host") that uses the card.
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    OpenCable Application Platform

    Cable Companies have required OCAP as part of the Cablecard 2.0 specification, a proposal that is controversial and has not been approved by the Federal Communications Commission.
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    Switched video

    CableLabs proposed in the CableCARD 2.0 specification that two-way communication be supported with a scheme which required more powerful hardware capable of running Java programs.
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    TiVo digital video recorders

    There is work progressing on a USB connected, separate box called a tuning adapter to be provided by a cable provider to allow TiVo and other CableCARD devices to work with SDV.
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    Comparison of PVR software packages

    4 Windows Media Center supports CableCard when used on CableLabs certified OEM Hardware. [2]
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    High-definition television

    This is usually done with a set-top box or CableCARD issued by the cable company.
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    B-CAS

    | Conditional access | CableCARD · Conditional access system · Renewable security |
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    Conditional access

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    Cable-ready

    These can only be received by devices using a CableCARD or DCAS (downloadable security).

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