The interesting part of the cablecard story is that as of sometime this summer, cable cos will no longer be allowed to ship "integrated" set top boxes. Instead, the boxes will have to have a cablecard slot, with the cablecard handling the decryption portion of the work. Should make for some fun times. Course the STBs will won't be portable across cable systems, which was the point of all of this, but hey... a lot of stuff should break when this happens...
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The interesting part of the cablecard story is that as of sometime this summer, cable cos will no longer be allowed to ship "integrated" set top boxes. Instead, the boxes will have to have a cablecard slot, with the cablecard handling the decryption portion of the work. Should make for some fun times. Course the STBs will won't be portable across cable systems, which was the point of all of this, but hey... a lot of stuff should break when this happens...