Thursday, February 16, 2012

CableCARD

CableCARD is a special-use PCMCIA (PC) agenda that allows consumers in the United States to appearance and almanac agenda cable television channels on agenda video recorders, claimed computers and television sets after the use of added accessories such as a set top box (STB) provided by a cable television company. The agenda may be provided by the bounded cable provider; usually for a nominal account fee. Another name for a CableCARD is an M-CARD on some cable boxes

In abstruse contexts, "CableCARD" refers added broadly to a set of technologies created by the United States cable television industry in acknowledgment to requirements by federal government's Telecommunications Act of 1996 that cable companies acquiesce non cable aggregation provided accessories to admission their networks.

Use of the appellation CableCARD can be confusing, because some technologies accredit not to the concrete card, but to a accessory ("Host") that uses the card. Some CableCARD technologies can be acclimated with accessories that accept no concrete CableCARDs.

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