- #CABLECARD TV TUNER FOR PC SERIAL NUMBER#
- #CABLECARD TV TUNER FOR PC INSTALL#
- #CABLECARD TV TUNER FOR PC SOFTWARE#
- #CABLECARD TV TUNER FOR PC LICENSE#
It meant that only new computers from selected manufacturers would be approved and would come with a CableCARD-ready tuner preinstalled.
#CABLECARD TV TUNER FOR PC SOFTWARE#
This was terrifically bad for enthusiasts who wanted to use the excellent Windows Media Center software on their PCs to watch and record digital cable channels. Instead, only specific computer configurations would be certified for use with such devices-CableLabs wanted to audit the systems to ensure a totally protected content path from tuner to computer to monitor. In 2006, when CableCARD-ready tuners came to home computers, CableLabs decided it would be too much a risk to let such tuners be installed "in the wild" by customers. CableLabs, the research and development consortium funded by the cable industry, developed and now licenses the CableCARD spec. These might not sound like terrific changes, but they're significant relaxations of the existing CableCARD rules.
#CABLECARD TV TUNER FOR PC INSTALL#
But that's exactly what happened yesterday at the CEDIA EXPO trade show in Atlanta, where Microsoft announced that home users could now install CableCARD-powered digital TV tuners in their PCs, could use those tuners with switched digital video (SDV) cable systems, and could use recorded content more freely. Non watermarked and/or higher resolution images are also available under certain circumstances.Here's something you don't see every day: companies like Microsoft and the cable industry relaxing content and DRM restrictions.
#CABLECARD TV TUNER FOR PC LICENSE#
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at. Multistream CableCARD by Tim Verry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. I hereby release them under the following Creative Commons license: Do you have any other questions or aspects about HTPCs and CableCards that you would like to see covered?įor now, head over the the forum and join the discussion! We will be diving into the alternatives to your cable providers expensive DVR boxes and how you can use CableCARDs to get HTPCs tuning into your cable subscription and whole room, expandable DVRs that you run yourself and can even stream recorded shows to your mobile devices! (just a few hints as to why I love CableCards 😉 ). The question of what exactly a CableCard is, what it is used for, and why it is used will be answered in future articles. Here is a photo of it with the pertinent information redacted.
#CABLECARD TV TUNER FOR PC SERIAL NUMBER#
The underside of the M-CARD looks much like front, only it lists several bits of important info including the MAC Address and serial number of the card.
The look physically the same but the type is noted on the card, so be sure to get an M-Card from your cable company (generally all cableCARDS nowadays are type M but check anyways to make sure they aren’t outfitting you with old tech :-p). They are essentially the same however, S-Cards only support a single TV channel at a time while M-Cards can handle up to six TV channels at a time. There are two types of CableCARDs: M-Cards and S-Cards. The front of the card has 68 pins and is designed to slot into a CableCARD slot in a host device like a computer TV tuner or a CableCARD-based set top box (STB) like a Tivo. For comparison, it is about the same size as an older laptop wireless card that could be inserted into the expansion card slot–just without the little plastic piece (where the antenna is) attached to the end. It is used to decrypt encrypted cable channels and authorize tuners and set top boxes to access channels included in a customer’s cable subscription (generally CableCARD devices are not able to access Video On Demand content, however). For those that have never seen a CableCard, or are still using your cable providers’ DVR boxes (keep an eye on the site in the coming weeks as I try to convince you why that’s a bad idea :P), a CableCard is a small PCMCIA II (remember those? I feel old now) expansion card that measures 8cm in length.
I recently started preparing to move, and knowing that I was going to have to pay Comcast to install it again anyway (or at least re-activate it) I decided that it couldn’t hurt to pop the CableCard out of my tuner and take some photos of it*.
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