{"id":215,"date":"2007-04-23T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=215"},"modified":"2007-04-23T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T17:27:00","slug":"current-status-of-cablecard-and-open-cable-in-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Current status of CableCard and \"open cable\" in general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crave.cnet.com\/8301-1_105-9710918-1.html?tag=nl.e501\" title=\"(April 20, 2007)\"><b>Cable Card Goes Mainstream on July 1<\/b> (crave.cnet.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article above summarizes the current situation with CableCard &#8212; it's just barely starting to become availble.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Some background on CableCard &#8230;&nbsp; <br  \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"(Wikipedia article)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CableCARD\">CableCard<\/a> is a small standardized electronic card that you plug into a cable set-top box (or DVR) of your choice.&nbsp; The idea was that consumers would be able to buy their own set-top box or DVR (e.g. at BestBuy), and the cable company would send the consumer a CableCard which contains the security\/access-control hardware to prevent cable theft.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>CableCard is a hardware solution to the cable companies security\/access-control concerns &#8212; you have to get a physical CableCard from your cable company.&nbsp; The article also mentions a software solution under development, known as <a title=\"(Wikipedia article)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Downloadable_Conditional_Access_System\">Downloadable Conditional Access System (DCAS)<\/a>.&nbsp; As a software solution, you would not need to get a physical piece of hardware (like a CableCard) to plug into the cable box you just purchased from BestBuy.&nbsp; Rather, the cable company would electronically send \"keys\" to the software in your cable box.<\/p>\n<p>After years of little activity on the CableCard front, much of the recent activity is due to a March 2005 FCC ruling (<a href=\"http:\/\/hraunfoss.fcc.gov\/edocs_public\/attachmatch\/DOC-257519A1.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) requiring cable companies to stop shipping \"integrated\" cable boxes (including DVRs) by July 2007 (in 2 months).&nbsp; To avoid fines, the only solution available to cable companies today is to ship boxes that support CableCard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cable Card Goes Mainstream on July 1 (crave.cnet.com) The article above summarizes the current situation with CableCard &#8212; it's just barely starting to become availble.&nbsp; Some background on CableCard &#8230;&nbsp; CableCard is a small standardized electronic card that you plug into a cable set-top box <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=215\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}