Here's the scoop: CableCard is literally a card that you pop into the back of your TV set so that you can get rid of your digital cable box and plug that coax directly into your digital TV (it's sort of like how you can use analog cable on a cable-ready analog TV without a cable box).
And naturally, users receive all the unencrypted digital cable TV (Clear QAM) channels offered by their cable provider.
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As digital cable and interactive TV become more prevalent, they are requiring cable companies to develop more advanced technology, and Gates and company are competing mightily for that business.
New services like digital cable, high-definition TV, video-on-demand, and digital video recorders are proving extremely popular with customers.
But without a digital TV tuner, or a cable or satellite set-top box that can convert a digital signal, consumers won't get any TV at all by 2009.
SiloconDust let us kown that it would be the first to certify a live TV tuner as a DLNA Digital Media Server, easily enabling premium cable TV to more devices with its existing HDHomeRun Prime network CableCARD tuner.
Don't confuse high-definition TV with digital cable or digital satellite systems.
HDHomeRun connects to a TV antenna or digital cable and wirelessly streams live television in full HD to any Mac or PC in the house.
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All three perform the same basic function -- they let you stream TV from your cable box (digital or analog), satellite receiver, or DVR to a computer or mobile device -- it's just that each is aimed at different segments of the market.
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Videotron is a leader in new technologies with its interactive Digital TV service and its broadband network, which supports high-speed cable Internet access, analog and digital cable television, and other services.
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If that occurs, digital cable could migrate from the box above the TV set to the inside, just as analog cable did.
To drum up interest among TV and Web viewers, cable carriers and digital providers are being offered extras such as cast interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and clips with directorial commentary.
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And about 40% more will be able to view the digital signal through a digital cable or satellite set-top box on an analog TV they already own.
The MPAA contends that now, without the technology in place, content providers will be unwilling to broadcast their programming for fear of it being copied and redistributed, and that consumers who don't subscribe to more secure cable and satellite TV won't be able to get certain digital programming.
Then there is the growing trend of consumers ditching their cable and satellite television services (like U-Verse perhaps, which also offers digital TV along with Internet) opting instead to stream content over the Internet.
Customers could buy a cheap digital video camera, plug it into their cable box, and engage in videoconferences using their TV.
Gaspin frets about the growing use of digital video recorders that squelch ads and the use of computers rather than cable networks to watch TV.
Yeah, we know that most of you probably won't be affected by this either way, since the Broadcast Flag only governs digital over-the-air broadcasts and the vast majority of Americans homes get their TV via cable or satellite (which have copy control mechanisms of their own), but the Broadcast Flag establishes a very dangerous precedent.
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