cable card support (1 Viewer)

[DGMurdockIII]

when and if we do get a cable card here in the usa will there be support for them

 

[dekkers]

GDMurdock,

What are you exactly meaning by "Cable Card"? If you mean TV card it is only supported if there are BDA drivers for it.

 

[funkstar]

I believe he is referring to the new digital cable receiver standard in the US

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableCARD

Being in the UK, i don't know a lot about this. But from what i have read, i don't think it is something you are going to see on an open source project in the foreseeable future. Hardware is scarce (only heard of ATI equipment available to the public) and there is probably heavy licensing for it too.

 

[dekkers]

As far I can see it's more like a new way of securing pay tv. What is done right now with smartcards will be done in the future with cable card. It's the next step for cable companies for controlling their customers becouse it's a two-way system. So the cable company can see wich channel your watching, the settopbox you're using, e.d.

I think they will close the system as much as possible avoiding things like card sharing. This is really a sad thing for HTPC owners. They will be forced to use a "certificied" settopbox.