Cablecard S-Card; Digital Cable Ready (Dcr); Cea-Ncta Agreement - LG 60PY2DR Training Manual

CABLECARD S-CARD

CABLECARD

DIGITAL CABLE READY (DCR)

A "plug-and-play" DTV is a television that you can plug directly into your cable system and receive
analog and most digital cable services without the need for a set-top box. The cable and consumer
electronics industries have dubbed these types of televisions "digital cable ready" or "DCR."
Digital plug-and-play will not work quite like analog. For digital plug-and-play, you'll probably need
to get a security card (also known as a CableCARD
will permit you to watch scrambled programming and premium services, to which you're subscribed.
A CableCARD device is A PCMCIA card distributed by cable operators and inserted into a DCR TV(Host)
to enable premium services, also called "Card" and "Point of Deployment(POD) module". It provides
authorization, CA (Conditional Access) decryption and CP (Copy Protection) encryption functions for
the consumer's DCR TV.
TV Station/ TV Station/
Network Network

CEA-NCTA AGREEMENT

• Signed Dec 19, 2002
• An agreement between cable operators and the consumer electronics industry
• How to offer digital programming over cable lines to current and future digital televisions
without the need for a set-top box
• "Unidirectional" cable-ready digital television sets (called UDCP or UDRD)
* Conditional access mechanism
* Separate CableCARD (POD) card
* Only receive information from the headend (one-way)
• Cable industry: Comcast, Cox, Time Warner, etc. (8 companies)
• CE industry: Philips, Panasonic, Zenith, Samsung, Sony, etc (14 companies)
• First Verification started Feb 2004 (VW18) based on PICS/ATP
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Antenna Antenna
Satellite Dish Satellite Dish
Fiber Fiber
Cable Headend/ Cable Headend/
"Plant" "Plant"
Using Cable line, bi-directional communication is possible Using Cable line, bi-directional communication is possible
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) from your local cable operator. The security card
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