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Conditional Access Module Various types of CAM. A conditional access module (CAM) is an electronic device, usually incorporating a slot for a smart card, which equips an integrated digital television or set-top box with the appropriate hardware facility to view conditional access content that has been encrypted using a conditional access system. [1]
Cable Video Store: General Instrument (original), Graff Pay-Per-View (second) May 1997: Launched in 1985. Guest Cinema: Adult pay-per-view INHD2 Comcast/Cox Communications/Time Warner Cable January 1, 2007 Former companion network to INHD. People's Choice: Pay-per-view Request TV: Liberty Media and 20th Century Fox: June 30, 1998 [23] Launched ...
Some analogue decoders were addressable so that cable companies could turn channels on or off remotely, but this only gave the cable companies control of their own descramblers — valuable if needed to deactivate a stolen cable company decoder but useless against hardware designed by signal pirates.
The prevention of piracy on cable and satellite networks has been one of the main factors in the development of Pay TV encryption systems. The early cable-based Pay TV networks used no security. This led to problems with people connecting to the network without paying. Consequently, some methods were developed to frustrate these self-connectors.
Other ways of cable theft were using a cable TV converter box (also known as a descrambler or "black box") to steal all channels and decrypt pay-per-view events, whereas a normal converter would only decrypt the ones paid for by the customer. The cable companies could send an electronic signal, called a "bullet", that would render illegal ...
DirecTV Stream (formerly DirecTV Now and AT&T TV) is a premium streaming multichannel television service offered in the United States by DirecTV.. The brand offers pay television service without a contract, with the service utilizing a customer's existing streaming TV hardware, such as a Roku or Amazon Fire TV device, and is also available on some smart TV systems like Tizen OS by Samsung ...
A Time Warner Cable advertisement from its December 2009 carriage dispute with Fox. Designed to resemble a ransom note, the ad continued: “We’re standing up to Fox. Don’t let Fox hold your TV hostage.” [12] The 2009 dispute between Time Warner Cable and Fox is an example of a carriage dispute involving an over-the-air broadcaster.
In 1977 Pat Robertson launched the first satellite-delivered basic cable service called the CBN Cable Network. In 1979, the Satellite Home Viewers Act allowed homeowners in the United States to both own and operate their own home satellite system, consisting of C-band equipment from a multitude of manufacturers who were making parts for systems ...