What is a CI card used for?

What is a CI card used for?

The Common Interface allows TV manufacturers to support many different pay TV stations, by allowing to plug in exchangeable conditional-access modules (CAM) for various encryption schemes. The Common Interface is the connection between the TV tuner (TV or set-top box) and the module that decrypts the TV signal (CAM).

What is a CI slot on TV?

What is a CI Slot? If you have a fairly new digital TV set, you may find that it has a slot somewhere, typically covered up with a blanking plate. This slot is known as a CI slot, or Common Interface slot, and it’s designed to accept a CAM, which will allow you to get a subscription TV service, such as ESPN.

Where does CI card adapter go?

① Insert the CI CARD Adapter into the two holes on the back of TV. – Please locate the two holes at the back of the TV next to the COMMON INTERFACE slot.

What is CI CI module?

With a CI + module you receive digital television, without the need for a decoder, also called ‘box’. You use the smartcard that you request from your provider.

What is a CI adapter card?

Its a card that some providers use for services such as Pay per View.This makes it easier for the manufacture to not have to worry about licencing different technologies, and can just make this Common Interface (CI) slot so that different cards can be used in it. It is mainly used for Pay per view.

What is a CI Adaptor?

What is a Samsung CI card?

sometimes called CAM (Conditional Access Module) It is a means for accessing some subscription services (you need to insert card in the slot) in the past it could be used for Setanta /ESPN but no longer the case since BT Sports acquired ESPN. Nowadays tends to be an option for services on international satellites.

How much is TV smart card in Kenya?

It is a Conditional Access Module (CAM). The GOCard will retail for Kshs 3499 and is available from all leading electronic retailers throughout Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu.