Please contact your provider to learn more about their plans. Cable providers ending support of CableCARDs typically means that no future cards will be distributed, but existing cards will still function.
However, it can also mean that a provider has both disabled existing CableCARDs and ended the practice of issuing new ones. We recommend you contact your provider directly to learn more about their plans. Acquiring a replacement CableCARD may depend on whether your cable provider plans to support them moving forward. TiVo has not disabled any functionality based on this FCC decision.
We encourage you to express your opinion with the FCC and your rights as a consumer to free choice in your cable operating hardware provider. Please contact your provider directly to confirm. If necessary, TiVo can participate in a call with you and your cable provider to provide additional support. Some cable providers include unencrypted channels in their cable lineups. These channels usually are rebroadcasts of ATSC antenna channels. If you perform a channel scan, these unencrypted channels which are also known as "clear QAM channels" appear in your channel list, and your TiVo device can tune to them, but you will not receive program guide data for them unless you obtain a CableCARD from your cable provider.
Here is why CableCARDs are necessary for clear QAM channels: Unlike analog channels, which are mapped to fixed base frequencies to comply with industry-wide broadcast standards, digital channels can be broadcast on any frequency your cable provider chooses, and the frequency can be changed at any time. The provider of program guide data to TiVo does not collect tuning frequency data from cable providers.
You may express your opinion with the FCC and your rights as a consumer to free choice in your cable operating hardware provider. As cable providers have relied on this technology for years we expect that they will continue to service their customers who have devices that use CableCARDs for the foreseeable future, however we suggest you speak to your cable provider directly. URL Name. Article Number. Choose a general reason. Number of Views Number of Views 3.
Nothing found. Trending Articles Nothing found. Live chat: Agent Offline. And without the dreaded cable box. Some quick background: the Federal Communications Commission FCC requires that all cable providers in all 50 states supply CableCARDs when requested by subscribers you can see some info about this on the FCC website - they call the technology "plug and play".
The FCC has allowed these cable companies to wire each and every home, so they're regulated as part of those agreements, and the CableCARD standard has evolved from those regulations.
But for cable users digital, analog, and even fiber optic versions like Verizon FiOS , these are mandatory upon request. A CableCARD is really just a chipset housed in a metal case that's about the dimensions of a credit card, and about three times as thick. Each cable provider can have different chips inside, but the key is that there is a descrambler in there, just like in earlier cable boxes. There is also a serial chip in there that holds an electronic serial number.
That way, the cable company can link the serial number to your cable account and then tell that specific cable card that you pay for a certain set of channels, and to decode or unscramble only those.
So in essence, it's an unlocking device that can be controlled, in part, by the cable company. As you change channels, the card follows along with the new requests. The best part is, this is totally seamless. You never have a cable box that didn't get the message - the hardware is completely integrated. If you've used a cable box or any set top box in conjunction with a TiVo, this a significant advance, because you now only need one box instead of two.
Since the TiVo doesn't have to control a separate box, all of the attendant issues cables getting moved, IR interference, the box switching off unexpectedly, etc. These are knows as M cards or multistream cards. With an M card, one card is sufficient to allow a compatible DVR to record two separate channels at once. A Series3 TiVo can use an M card, but only to record one channel at a time.
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