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<blockquote data-quote="dman_lfc" data-source="post: 49470" data-attributes="member: 10331">OK...Well CableCard is relatively the same as a CAM (Conditional Access Module) used in europe and other areas for some time for DVB. Today we support varying PCI &amp; USB TV Card devices which have a CI (Common Interface) slot to decrypt the stream on your HTPC system.This is also possible for DVB-S broadcasts in NA.For cable in the US we only support Analogue at this time. Although there are PCI / USB ATSC tuners out there in the market place which will work with cable (i.e. Dvico Fusion) we rely on the Microsoft ATSC provider as part of XP. Unfortunately this provider only supports OTA broadcasts so at the moment we're quite restricted.When Vista finally comes along we should be able to take advantage of the new ATSC provider for cable broadcast and also inherient in the new M$ OS PVP-OPM (Protected Video Path - Output Protection Management) and PVP-UAB (Protected Video Path - User-Accessible Bus), a solution designed to ensure that the system is compliant with CableLabs (NDS - grrrr) specifications and which encrypts video as it passes through the PCIe bus.So the short answer is...When Vista &amp; PCIe cards for Vista MCE hit the market with CableCard slot support on the cards then we'll give it a go provided M$ has open API's for non MCE developers. We'll also need the CableCard slot SDK from the TV Card provider if this is proprietary. My understanding is this won't be.DMAN</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dman_lfc, post: 49470, member: 10331"] OK... Well CableCard is relatively the same as a CAM (Conditional Access Module) used in europe and other areas for some time for DVB. Today we support varying PCI & USB TV Card devices which have a CI (Common Interface) slot to decrypt the stream on your HTPC system. This is also possible for DVB-S broadcasts in NA. For cable in the US we only support Analogue at this time. Although there are PCI / USB ATSC tuners out there in the market place which will work with cable (i.e. Dvico Fusion) we rely on the Microsoft ATSC provider as part of XP. Unfortunately this provider only supports OTA broadcasts so at the moment we're quite restricted. When Vista finally comes along we should be able to take advantage of the new ATSC provider for cable broadcast and also inherient in the new M$ OS PVP-OPM (Protected Video Path - Output Protection Management) and PVP-UAB (Protected Video Path - User-Accessible Bus), a solution designed to ensure that the system is compliant with CableLabs (NDS - grrrr) specifications and which encrypts video as it passes through the PCIe bus. So the short answer is... When Vista & PCIe cards for Vista MCE hit the market with CableCard slot support on the cards then we'll give it a go provided M$ has open API's for non MCE developers. We'll also need the CableCard slot SDK from the TV Card provider if this is proprietary. My understanding is this won't be. DMAN [/QUOTE]

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