Talk:CableCARD

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Does someone know if Mexico supports CableCard?

[edit] CableCard 2.0 Deadline

Doesn't the FCC have a drop dead date by which cable operators must start deploying CableCard 2.0 and using it themselves in their own set top boxes?

[edit] PoD?

What does Point of Deployment mean? An esoteric word such as that should be quickly followed by a definition and some context. Hackwrench 05:11, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

An updated introduction that described the background, and origination, of the POD (now CableCard) would clarify this meaning. If someone doesn't beat me to it -- I will try to get to this one. I have some experience with the beginnings of the POD project. (Wiki writer 20:54, 19 June 2006 (UTC))

Updated intro helps -- but does not answer the POD question; i.e., the history of closed-system cable settop boxes, with their own proprietary conditional access and out-of-band (OOB; incl. return path) specs -- the POD allowed the point-of-deployment items (conditional access and OOB hw) to be inserted into a standard settop box with the cable system specific POD (now cablecard). ALSO - The CableCard is already part of OpenCable; Opencable does not supercede it. DCAS however may eventually supercede the need for a Cablecard, though I am not sure how the new specs address the OOB channel issue unless they assume that all settop box hardware will have both OOB modems on board (as already exists in newer settop chips), they will adopt a common OOB spec -- or they will use DOCSIS. (Wiki writer 15:43, 20 June 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Guides

The article makes it seem like the one-way nature of v1.0 CableCards prevents programming guide functionality. This is obviously not a cause of the lack of such support, since virtually all satellite services are one-way but support programming guides. They do this by constantly streaming the data to all clients, so when a client wants a programming guide update, it simply listens until it has all the data it needs. Guspaz 00:09, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

--- Exactly. My set listens for TV Guide info over normal cable for my programming guide, although my CableCARD isn't authorized yet. My cable provider doesn't know how to use CableCARDs... I am getting a program guide though. Someone needs to rewrite that part of the article.